He was my favorite character on ST:TNG ...
Science as paraded is purely political.
There’s no haste nor glory in true science — it’s just the way it is.
Years ago I owned a sailboat, a 45 footer.
I had a rule that everyone on board had to know how to swim.
I broke that rule twice. Once for a black man and once for a Vietnamese.
They were to wear life preservers at all times and Harnesses if outside the cabin.
My explanation?
I want to know where your body is, if you do stupid.
Could Corn Pop swim?
Of course they do.
The totalitarian Left ignored science for Covid restrictions.
They ignore data related to global warming.
They preach about Constitutional rights, until applied to white people, religious people, actual vote fraud, or basic checks and balances.
They have an agenda of power.
Everything is either a tool or an obstacle to the agenda.
What they lack are any principles.
The author got his division wrong. 20,000 shootings by 90 million legal gun owners would be a rate of 0.02 percent, not 0.0002 percent. I wish people could learn the difference between a simple fraction and a percentage.
White Men Can’t Jump, but Black Men Can’t Swim.
Predictably, the reason the requirement was being dropped was because “blacks are less likely than whites to know how to swim because of economic disparities between the groups…”
This is just a lie. Most of those “underprivileged” blacks grow up in cities where you can enroll your kids in swim lessons at the park district for free. That’s where I learned to swim when I was a tot. The only thing stopping blacks from learning to swim is that their parents apparently don’t care enough to take them there and sign them up.
Low buoyancy?