{"id":71765,"date":"2017-04-29T07:30:37","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T11:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71765"},"modified":"2017-04-29T06:59:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T10:59:54","slug":"71765","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71765","title":{"rendered":"Bill Nye . . . the Eugenics Guy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seems that Bill Nye, the anti-freedom propagandist who originally made his name popularizing science, is propagandizing on a wider range of subjects these days.\u00a0 And he&#8217;s catching some well-deserved heat for his most recent public position as a result.<\/p>\n<p>Nye\u2019s already shown his true colors <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2016\/apr\/14\/bill-nye-open-criminal-charges-jail-time-climate-c\/\">by coming out in favor of jailing \u201cclimate deniers\u201d<\/a><\/em> \u2013 a rather odd and, frankly, hypocritical position for someone who makes his living courtesy of the First Amendment IMO.\u00a0 His newest position only further confirms his anti-freedom\/pro-authoritarian bias.<\/p>\n<p>In a panel discussion on his new Netflix show, Nye recently seemed to come out quite clearly <em><a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/04\/26\/bill-nye-should-we-penalize-parents-for-having-extra-kids\/\">in favor of penalizing people who choose to have \u201cextra\u201d children<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, you read that correctly.\u00a0 Nye apparently is in favor of government-imposed limits on family size.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps someone should remind the dipstick that this isn\u2019t a new idea.\u00a0 Communist China already tried it.<\/p>\n<p>It was called their <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/One-child_policy\">\u201cone-child policy\u201d<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 It was virtually universally considered an egregious and unconscionable violation of human rights.\u00a0 China formally ended the policy in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Any government policy that results in compulsory family planning and coerced sterilizations &#8211; as did China&#8217;s implementation of its &#8220;one-child policy&#8221; &#8211; is simply not something I find acceptable.\u00a0 As far as I\u2019m concerned, Bill Nye can go straight to hell.<\/p>\n<p>And no, Nye:\u00a0 history quite clearly shows it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">won&#8217;t<\/span> be &#8220;done right this time around&#8221;.\u00a0 Dictatorship never is.<\/p>\n<p>Freedom may be messy and difficult.\u00a0 But life as a free citizen is infinitely preferable to life as a serf \u2013 who is told by their lord and master what he or she can and cannot do and say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems that Bill Nye, the anti-freedom propagandist who originally made his name popularizing science, is propagandizing &hellip; <a title=\"Bill Nye . . . the Eugenics Guy?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71765\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bill Nye . . . the Eugenics Guy?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,177,47,236,271],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-dumbass-bullshit","category-liberals-suck","category-wtf","category-ygbsm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}