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Bill Nye Wants to 'Penalize' You for Having 'Extra Kids'
Truthrevolt.org ^ | 4-27-2017 | M.J. Randolph

Posted on 04/27/2017 4:56:55 AM PDT by servo1969

You might want to decide which one or two kids are your favorites, because Nye is coming for the "extra ones."

Anti-Science Guy Bill Nye recently almost broke the internet by introducing the world to a disastrous song and video featuring sitcom actress Rachel Bloom called "My Sex Junk." The song, about gender fluidity, lox, and bagels (yes, really), came from the new modestly-titled Netflix series Bill Nye Saves the World. But his most recent episode is just about as bad.

In the 13th episode of the season, titled "Earth's People Problem," Nye tackles a problem no one's been concerned about since the 1970s: overpopulation.

The 26-minute episode explained that educated women usually have fewer children than uneducated ones, that women in power have fewer children, and the fewer children there are, the more resources can be devoted to those children. All true. Then, the show posits that America's patriarchal society means that new mothers here are really bad off. Bosworth W. Hollingsworth, IV describes the show in the Federalist:

... women in India get 16 weeks of paid maternity leave, which is "unheard of in the United States." Never mind that here in California (home to roughly 20 percent of Americans), we have 16 weeks of guaranteed maternity leave as well. Also disregard the fact that the absence of a federal requirement for maternity leave does not mean maternity leave is nonexistent in the United States... Instructively, she approvingly lists China when she rattles off some of the countries that do have required paid maternity leave policies.

Yes, Chinese mothers have it so easy, when the government isn't forcing them to abort children that exceed their quotas.

Next, Nye hosted a panel discussion comprised of "Rachel Snow, chief of population development at the United Nations Population Fund, Dr. Travis Rieder, ethicist at the Berman Institute at Johns Hopkins University, and finally Dr. Nerys Benfield, director of Family Planning Montefiore Medical Center."

"What should we be doing?" Nye asks.

Benfield says health care and family planning are both important, and the panel nods approvingly. "We need justice and we need education," Snow said. Wait, what? Justice? For whom? The panel does not clarify what's meant by "justice," though Nye asks, "How do we create and export this justice?" Again, what's he talking about? Justice is not something you whip up in the lab: it's meted out, not concocted.

Snow says we can do this by creating "excellent education systems," and Rieder says children take up way too many of the earth's resources. That's when Nye asks, "Should we have policies that penalize people for having extra kids in the developed world?" This is when the show gets downright creepy.  Hollingsworth describes the ensuing conversation:

Extra kids. These d-mn people and their existence, am I right? Nye (who, again, decided we all needed to see that abomination from Bloom) is wise enough to set limits on humanity. This whole concept and the ease with which he discusses it is so frightening and evil that I am genuinely appalled at Netflix's decision to air it.

Rieder says we should "at least consider" a form of punishment for people who have these Extra Kids (TM). Nye impatiently responds that "consider means do it." Snow, to her credit, jumps in and takes issue with the idea that "we do anything to incentivize fewer children or more children." Benfield notes the history of compulsory sterilization in America, a practice that was in place as recently as the 1970s. The issue was not come at from a position of justice in the past, she adds. But this time will be different, I guess?

So, if you're scoring at home, that leaves China's maternity laws and their recently ended one-child policy as the key points from this half hour of science televangelism.

Twitter responded accordingly:

This might be the darkest show Netflix has ever streamed. pic.twitter.com/1LR5fQ48Hx -- Chris Morgan (@CR_Morgan) April 26, 2017

Nothing says "I fking love science" quite like flirting with the idea of establishing a barren "Children of Men" hellscape. https://t.co/VZyQ8bOBUx -- T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) April 26, 2017

Doesn't that make Rachel Bloom's "My Sex Junk" song seem virtually Puritanical by comparison?


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To: servo1969
So is he going to tell muslims they cannot have the large families they usually have?

Is this part of the stackNpack rewilding policy of agenda 21?

21 posted on 04/27/2017 5:35:18 AM PDT by MarMema
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To: servo1969

Bill Nye Wants to ‘Penalize’ You for Having ‘Extra Kids’


This strikes to the core of what I’ve been saying about the AGW fiasco for over a decade. The purpose is to convince the public that CO2 release is something the government should have the right to control, tax, etc. Once that happens, the government can control every aspect of your life. The reason is simple: Virtually every activity performed by man will produce CO2.

This is the reason AGW is being pushed: Total control of the population of the world in all aspects of their lives. I’m surprised this guy brought it out in front of God and everybody so soon, though. They must be panicking.


22 posted on 04/27/2017 5:37:04 AM PDT by Mr. Douglas (Best. Election. EVER!)
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To: servo1969

The left is so confusing. They tell us that our population needs to grow, to grow the economy at a 3% rate. This is one of their premises for supporting illegal immigration. However, they want us to have fewer kids.


23 posted on 04/27/2017 5:38:41 AM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: servo1969
If liberals want to limit the number of people, why do they want to let more people in to the country? Doesn't wide open immigration negate the child limit scheme?

Liberalism is a mental illness.

24 posted on 04/27/2017 5:40:15 AM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: servo1969
and the fewer children there are, the more resources can be devoted to those children.

That's all well and good, except when those children grow up and expect lots of government "bennies" like Social Security, healthcare (in whatever form it may be), and perhaps things like roads, bridges, schools and a national defense, there won't be as many worker-bees; i.e., government-revenue contributors (taxpayers).

What then, brilliant scientist?

25 posted on 04/27/2017 5:41:41 AM PDT by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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To: castlegreyskull
However, they want us to have fewer kids.

They want fewer white, Christian, American kids.

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26 posted on 04/27/2017 5:46:40 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Best Long Term Prepper Tactic: Beat The Muslim Takeover - Have Big Families)
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

If they got rid of all of the Whites, this country would be faced with constant civil war. It would be more embarrassing than the Average African Tin Pot dictatorship.


27 posted on 04/27/2017 5:51:33 AM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: Drew68
The problem, Bill, isn't a world with too many educated white people. It is the billions upon billions of illiterate, unskilled third worlders that contribute nothing and have never contributed anything to the betterment of humanity beyond their ability to procreate, commit violence, and pick vegetables.

It will mostly be the educated middle-class kids who will create the new companies and new innovations which will provide jobs for the rest, and pay the taxes to support benefits programs for the poor.

If anything we need for the middle class to produce MORE kids, and the poor to produce fewer. But saying that in public will get you crucified.

28 posted on 04/27/2017 5:51:54 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: servo1969
"We need justice and we need education,"

Oh; we're getting 'educated' all right!

29 posted on 04/27/2017 5:55:14 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: jeffc
If liberals want to limit the number of people, why do they want to let more people in to the country? Doesn't wide open immigration negate the child limit scheme?

Not if you are part of the agenda 21 social justice crowd.

Recently the Seattle city council was planning to eliminate single family homes, for instance, because it was not fair for some people to have them and not others.

Agenda 21 policies date back to the 1970's but it got its real start in 1992 at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro when President Bush signed onto it. President Clinton signed it later and continued the program in the United States. Agenda 21 is 'soft-law' and did not have to be voted on by the Congress. A non-governmental organization called the International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives, ICLEI, is tasked with carrying out the goals of Agenda 21. Over 600 cities in the U.S. are members, and that number is growing. The costs are paid by taxpayers.

In 1988, former Canadian Minister of the Environment, told editors and reporters of the Calgary Herald: “No matter if the science of global warming is all phony…climate change [provides] the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world.”

Seattle bureaucrats seek to ban single-family homes, calling them racist

""We can still be a city for everyone, but only if we give up our outdated ideal of every family living in their own home on a 5,000 square foot lot," said a letter from the co-chairs of the Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda, or HALA."

"Interestingly enough, the Change.org website includes a petition calling for a nationwide ban on single-family homes, GovtSlaves.info reported, because they "pollute the environment by increasing commuting distances, damage housing affordability, infringe on private property rights and cause the very overpopulation they were created to prevent by encouraging large houses with room for too many children."

30 posted on 04/27/2017 5:55:53 AM PDT by MarMema
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To: TexasFreeper2009
If we need people... we should be encouraging those who can afford to have more children to do so! and stop immigration!

Stopping 'immigration' is NOT the answer.

Stop killing future American Citizens at the rate of about 3,300 A DAY is the ANSWER!


31 posted on 04/27/2017 5:59:38 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Pollster1

might?


32 posted on 04/27/2017 6:00:23 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: servo1969

What he really means is “White people shouldn’t have kids.”
He is more than just a priest of the Left. He is headed for full blown nihilism.


33 posted on 04/27/2017 6:16:18 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: servo1969

If I ever see him in person I might just haul off and clock him in the nose.


34 posted on 04/27/2017 6:19:23 AM PDT by bar sin·is·ter
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To: Rebelbase

This is obviously a disease.


35 posted on 04/27/2017 6:19:43 AM PDT by Vehmgericht
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To: servo1969

36 posted on 04/27/2017 6:24:40 AM PDT by libertarian27 (FR Cookbooks - On Profile Page)
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To: servo1969
"song, about gender fluidity"

Bill Nye is Tran-science.

He is a moron, but believes he is actually a scientist.
37 posted on 04/27/2017 6:27:00 AM PDT by indthkr
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To: servo1969

Common sentiments in the 70’s. I was one of six. My dad said people used to look at us like we were stealing their air.


38 posted on 04/27/2017 6:51:17 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: libertarian27

This clown is about as creepy as they come.


39 posted on 04/27/2017 6:58:55 AM PDT by wjcsux (The hyperventilating of the left means we are winning! (Tagline courtesy of Laz.))
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To: servo1969

Bill Nye is Red Chinese???


40 posted on 04/27/2017 7:01:57 AM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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