Bethany Mandel Discovers Science In Science Museums, History In History Museums, Is Outraged
https://www.wonkette.com/p/bethany-mandel-discovers-scienceRobyn Pennacchia
She writes for PJMedia these days, by the way. Tragically, I missed her article last year about how Trump was making dating great again for MAGA women — after some liberal women said they would give up sex or divorce their husbands after he won, in the model of the 4B movement in Korea — because now they wouldn’t have to compete with liberal women with “high body counts and low morals” for men. It’s a fun one!
Following in her footsteps now is one Bethany Mandel, whom you may remember from the time she wrote an entire book about “woke” and then found herself unable to define the term “woke.”
Or from the time she ran for Montgomery County, Maryland, school board despite homeschooling her kids, and lost.
This week, Mandel published an editorial on Fox asking “Why are major museums pushing climate change instead of celebrating the spirit of America?” and describing her horror when she went to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History only to discover that instead of celebrating America, they kept going on about science.
The easy answer to this is “Because it’s a science museum, you strange little woman,” but Mandel was not looking for easy answers.
One exhibit states, “Since the last ice age, Earth’s climate has warmed. But now that warming is getting faster because of us.”
The message is clear: “Hope you liked the dinosaur bones, kids — because we might be next.”
Well … yes?
I understand that people like Mandel (and Fox before her) like to have their weird beliefs coddled and would love to go to a science museum that doesn’t even mention climate change. Or that tells them “Sure! We’re having crazy weather these days, like those floods in Texas that just killed a whole bunch of people, but that’s only because Democrats are manipulating the weather with chemtrails because they want you to feel bad about your SUV!” or, you know “Sure! We’re having crazy weather these days, like those floods in Texas that just killed a whole bunch of people, but that’s because God is mad about gay people and feminists!” depending on what flavor of right-wing lunacy one subscribes to.
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It was just so ignorant. No coherent arguments. No understanding of basic highschool biology or chemistry or geology or physics.
Just sound bites and ridicule. Yeah, let's base our understanding of the world on jiberjabber, derision and mockery. Later on frat girl maybe able to add some violence to our understanding of natural science. It worked for the dark ages and the Inquisition. That's always better than science.
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