In California, a bill has been put forward mandating that insurance companies have to provide infertility treatments to homosexuals. --- it's called equality.
only the religious persecute gays. On Apr 16, 6:50 am, Bruce Majors <[email protected]> wrote: > -------- > > ** > Daniel Greenfield article: The Left’s War on > Science<http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/> > <http://fusion.google.com/add?source=atgs&feedurl=http://feeds.feedbur...> > [image: > Link to Sultan Knish] <http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/> > ------------------------------ > > The Left’s War on > Science<http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FromNyToIsraelSultanRevealsTheStoriesB...> > > Posted: 15 Apr 2013 08:48 PM PDT > “We did not come to ask for mercy from nature,” Ivan Vladimirovich > Michurin, the Lysenko of Soviet agriculture, once declared. “We must wrest > it from her.” > > <http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-w9MLUqUNeyI/UWzI4Zu1KmI/AAAAAAAALjM/gEDsu73...>Communist > science was guided not by the journey from hypothesis to fact but by the > dusty > proclamations of Marxist theorists. Soviet scientists were expected to > reject capitalist science and formulate a science that matched the > Communist worldview. > > The Communist worldview insisted that every living creature could be > completely transformed into anything. It rejected natural selection as > having a competitive capitalist bent that suspiciously resembled a > biological version of free market competition. And pseudo-scientists like > Lysenko and Michurin matched bad science to bad ideology laying out an > official dogma in which transforming the environment could transform any > creature and in which intraspecies struggle did not lead to evolution. > > The USSR’s politicization of biology crippled its agriculture. Its leaders > rejected free market competition on the human level and in the plant and > animal kingdoms. They insisted that nature had to follow Marxist > dialectical materialism and locked up and murdered the scientists who > disagreed. By the time the USSR fell, a land which had once exported wheat > to the world had gone deep into debt to buy wheat from the United States. > > But bad ideology driving bad science didn’t die with Lysenko and Michurin. > The new Lysenkos are Warmunists like Michael Mann and James Hansen. The > environmentalists, like the Communists, believe that human beings have > total control over the environment and that the environment determines all. > Where they differ is the perceived effect of that influence. Warmunism, > like Communism, originates not from science, but from ideology. The > Communists divided industry into two types by ideological classification; > the good cooperative Socialist industry and the bad competitive Capitalist > industry. The Warmunists similarly ideologically classify two types of > industry; environmentally conscious green technology and dirty non-socially > conscious brown technology. > > The Warmunists, like the Communists, classify science and industry not by > outcome, but by ideology, and then paper over that classification with bad > science. Green technology is often dirtier and less efficient than the > so-called brown technology, but like the collective farms and the idiotic > ramblings of Michurin and Lysenko, it’s better because it more closely fits > the Socialist vision of how things ought to work. > > Scientists debate, but ideologues delegitimize. The Communists did not > debate science. They declared dogma and locked up anyone who disagreed. The > Warmunists don’t have the power to sentence their critics to prison, though > some among them have broached the notion, instead they plot campaigns of > character assassination against those who question the theories that they > try to pass off as final facts. > > The Warmunists, like the Communists, are not interested in learning how the > world works, but in using their notions of how the world ought to work to > develop a model of how human beings ought to behave. > > The Communists rejected the free market and natural human competition. They > extended that metaphor to all living things because they feared the > dissonance between how the world worked and how their ideal society was > meant to work. The Warmunists reject the free market and human industry > because, like the Communists, they seek to use science to impose a > centralized model of human society as a dangerously fragile existence in > which unguided individual efforts are dangerously disruptive and only > ideological compliance can lead to a better life for the collective planet. > > While the left rejects the pseudo-science of Lysenko and Michurin when it > comes to the plant and animal kingdoms, it still argues that people can be > remade into any political identity without regard to biology. Lysenkoists > believed that just as animals and plants could be transformed over short > periods of time by altering their environment, human beings could also be > transformed from their greedy and competitive selves by living under > Socialism. > > The new Lysenkoists place mind over biology. If a man wants to be a woman, > then all he has to do is think that he is and he will be. The latest civil > rights initiatives protect the rights of men to dress up as women and have > the same legal status. A man by the name of Calliope Wong applied to Smith > College, a top Ivy League all-girls college. Smith had not gone to the > trouble of getting his genitals medically mutilated, a pseudo-medical > ritual which is misleadingly referred to as a “Sex Change Operation”, but > the media insisted that if he identified as a woman, then he was a woman. > > Even the worst Soviet science didn’t insist that biology was so malleable > that a man could click his heels three times and think himself a woman, but > behind the push for the transgender dogma is that same idea that biology > must be more malleable than politics and that in a conflict between the > two, science must conform to ideology. > > Like Lysenkoist science, the postmodern assertion that the choice of male > or female sexual partners is rigidly fixed at a genetic level, but that > gender is infinitely transformative, that gay men cannot turn back to > straight, but that men can become women and women can become men, makes no > logical sense. It makes even less scientific sense. But it makes perfect > political sense. > > <http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KvQNKJ1Ihek/UWzJbVY-7cI/AAAAAAAALjU/lbliSI1...> > The left’s version of the old racist “one-drop rule” that treated anyone > with even one drop of black blood as black is to treat anyone with even the > loosest claim to minority status as a minority and to mandate the > irrevocable nature of that minority status. That is why Obama is black, > rather than half- white, why Elizabeth Warren can be a Cherokee and why a > straight man can become gay, but a gay man cannot become straight. It is > why a man can become a woman or a woman can become a man and gain an > entirely new transgender minority status. > > The scientific principle at work here is the conservation of minority > status. The left’s policies are meant to diminish the size of the majority > and enlarge the size and number of minorities. > > Political diversity when applied to science logically leads to immutable > homosexuality and mutable gender. It leads to a construct of race governed > by a politically correct version of the one-drop rule in which racial > identification always trends toward minority status, rather than majority > status. The science is bad, but the political calculation is impeccable. > Biology is just as irrelevant in 2013 America as it was in 1923 Russia. How > the human body works doesn’t matter. How the body politic ought to work is > of obsessive importance. The individual is a metaphor for the collective. > The power of the state to transform the individual from male to female is a > metaphor for its power to transform the entire nation through the > transformation of language. > > “In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you > would have to believe it,” George Orwell wrote in 1984. “It was inevitable > that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their > position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very > existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The > heresy of heresies was common sense.” > > Compelling people to believe irrational things is the ultimate triumph of a > totalitarian ideology. It is the achievement of a state that transcends > reality and manufactures its own reality. The ultimate power of the state > depends on the malleability of man. Even if the state cannot make 2 + 2 = 5 > or transform a man into a woman, it can more importantly compel everyone to > believe that it is so. > > The left cannot change global temperatures, human biology, plant growth or > basic mathematics. But it can change the mind of man to think that its > spending sprees and deep debts, its bizarre notions of agriculture and even > more bizarre notions of human biology are absolute verified facts. It can > replace a science of facts with a science of ideologies with hardly anyone > being the wiser. > > In California, a bill has been put forward mandating that insurance > companies have to provide infertility treatments to homosexuals. While > normal industry practice is to provide infertility treatments only to > natural couples, the modern Marxist Michurins refuse to be at the mercy of > mere biology. They did not come to ask mercy of nature. Instead they are > here to tell nature what latest developments in lefty thinking it is > expected to conform to. > > “Coverage for the treatment of infertility shall be offered and provided > without discrimination on the basis of... gender, gender expression, gender > identity, genetic information… sexual orientation,” the bill states. > > While infertility treatments can be offered without regard to gender, > fertility cannot exist without regard to gender. A man can claim that his > marriage to another man is just like a marriage to a woman, but no amount > of empty words or lawsuits will wrest a child from his body. A man can > claim that he is now a woman, but no amount of mandated fertility > treatments will enable him to conceive life. > > The Lysenkoism of attempting to force science to conform to politics always > leads to a biological dead end. Homosexuals are not infertile. They are not > in the class of relationships that are biologically capable of conceiving > life. It makes as much sense to speak of infertility between a man and > another man as it does between a sheep and a cow. > > Since every homosexual couple is infertile, every such couple would be > entitled to infertility treatments. But no amount of such treatments will > enable them to conceive a child without the biological intervention of a > member of the opposite sex at some point in the process. And no law can > mandate otherwise. All the law can do is mandate an expensive policy whose > only purpose is to burden the public with the high cost of pretending to > defy biology in the name of politics. > > Toward the end, the Soviet Union was running low on wheat. The United > States and Europe are running low on children and on industry. > > <http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JPwHDnxL3SQ/UWzJxvIBe1I/AAAAAAAALjk/wd0UICA...>The > Western left declared war on science and science is winning. The Warmunists > demand that the West cut off its industrial nose to spite its environmental > face. And while the factories of China boom, Americans and Europeans go > jobless and hungry. The left insisted that family and gender don’t matter, > that the ideal society is full of unmarried men and women, men pretending > to be women and men shacking up with other men. And the elderly hippies of > the establishment are running out of children to pay for their post-gender, > post-sexual and post-family paradise. To make up for the gap their > countries are filling up with Muslim immigrants whose families are > patriarchal and polygamous. > > Ideologies have consequences. The Soviet Union found that out the hard way. > Now the Socialist republics of what used to be the free world are finding > out the same thing. You can replace science with political pseudo-science, > and you can convince or compel everyone to pay fealty to its false claims, > but you cannot escape the consequences of your actions. > > You can declare war on science… but science will always win. > Daniel Greenfield is a New York City based writer and blogger and a > Shillman Journalism Fellow of the David Horowitz Freedom Center. > <http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/FromNyToIsraelSultanRevealsTheStories...> > <http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/FromNyToIsraelSultanRevealsTheStories...> > <http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/FromNyToIsraelSultanRevealsTheStories...> > <http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/FromNyToIsraelSultanRevealsTheStories...> > <http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/FromNyToIsraelSultanRevealsTheStories...> > <http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/FromNyToIsraelSultanRevealsTheStories...> > You are subscribed to email updates from Sultan Knish > <http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/> > To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe > now<http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailunsubscribe?k=PdU-gD4plhAiSg0VL...> > . 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