And then who would pay the bills for the Free S*** Army?
Posted on 04/27/2017 4:56:55 AM PDT by servo1969
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:
Doesn't that make Rachel Bloom's "My Sex Junk" song seem virtually Puritanical by comparison?
Which kid is the extra one? If it is the last kid, that is chronological bias. Maybe one of the middle kids is the one the planet didn’t need.
I have skin in this game: I’m the youngest of seven.
Quit dripping your contemptus humani all over my screen.
They don't exist to achieve your purposes, Drew.
Their purpose and value pertains to themselves, and to God.
And the same for me and you.
So we had fewer kids and now they tell us we don't have enough young people and we need to import millions of illiterate illegal aliens from south the border or illiterate ex Jihadi on the losing side in war torn Middle Eastern countries and Afghanistan
Now Nye tells us we need to have smaller families to make room for more Jihadil
No, gender fluid has nothing to do with sex. You do, though, need to be sure to change it every 20,000 miles for an automatic or 30,000 for a stick shift.
WARNING: VULGARITY
My Sex Junk - Rachel Bloom - Bill Nye Saves the World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wllc5gSc-N8
Just getting to know the real Bill Nye. Hear his reaction to this gross song and dance by Bloom.
Will it be retro-active?
Will it extend back to before Billy was born?
How many ‘developed’ countries have a birthrate that is below the replacement level, and how many ‘non-developed’ countries have a birthrate that is (way) above replacement level?
Don’t statistics show that it’s mostly white people who have stopped having kids?
So applying liberal “logic” to his stated goals, we must ask: Why does Bill Nye hate brown people?
Bill Nye is as much of a scientist as an astrologer is.
And then who would pay the bills for the Free S*** Army?
That was my first thought. He should have a problem with large Muslim families, right? /s
Curious what purpose God has in plan for the billions of illiterate, unskilled third world masses when the most menial task becomes mechanized.
It’s not hyperbole to say he’s crazy.
Look into his eyes, there is something seriously, seriously wrong with him.
I’m not kidding when I say he is hiding something very, very sinister that was either done TO him or BY him.
Like the way God historically used the Assyrians against unfaithful Israel.
Just a hypothesis.
Someone needs to peen-alize Bill Nye deep enough to cause disruption to his larynx.
“Like the way God historically used the Assyrians against unfaithful Israel.”
Yep. And many other examples in the Bible.
Well, God has shown us enough of his mind in Scripture that he wants those third-world people that we’re talking about to have eternal joy with him, just like he wants the same thing for us.
But if we are to accept an utterly cynical and utilitarian view of humanity, as opposed to God’s view, Nye’s blathering STILL makes no sense, for the reasons stated above.
So even if we were to accept his premise, he’s still wrong.
Bill Nye - you're nothing but a pencil necked geek
Yes, Nye’s wrong every way you can BE wrong.
Shame a guy like that gets his own TV series.
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