Bloomberg has been making headlines with statements like these:
“Tolerance for other people’s ideas and the freedom to express your own are inseparable values.
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There is an idea floating around college campuses – including here at Harvard – that scholars should be funded only if their work conforms to a particular view of justice. There’s a word for that idea: censorship. And it is just a modern-day form of McCarthyism.
In the 1950s, the right wing was attempting to repress left-wing ideas. Today, on many campuses, it is liberals trying to repress conservative ideas, even as conservative faculty members are at risk of becoming an endangered species.
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Throughout history, those in authority have tried to repress ideas that threaten their power, their religion, their ideology or their re-election chances.
Source: http://www.delawareonline.com/story/opinion/contributors/2014/05/31/advice-graduates-major-intolerance/9783343/
Bloomberg hates our guns, our tobacco, trans fats, he even told hospitals to keep the formula under lock and key, to encourage breastfeeding, so why is this fascist talking about freedom? I didn’t get it for a while, but then I realized independents love this type of talk.
In Washington, every major question facing our country is decided. Yet the two parties decide these questions not by engaging with one another, but by trying to shout each other down, and by trying to repress and undermine research that runs counter to their ideology. The more our universities emulate that model, the worse off we will be as a society.
An example: For decades, Congress has barred the Centers for Disease Control from conducting studies of gun violence, and recently Congress also placed that prohibition on the National Institutes of Health.
This year, the Senate has delayed a vote on President Obama’s nominee for surgeon general – Vivek Murthy, a Harvard physician – because he had the audacity to say that gun violence is a public health crisis that should be tackled.
Let’s get serious: When 86 Americans are killed with guns every day, and shootings regularly occur at our schools and universities, including last week’s tragedy in Santa Barbara, California, it would be almost medical malpractice to say anything else.
But in politics – as it is on too many college campuses – people don’t listen to facts that run counter to their ideology. They fear them. And nothing is more frightening to them than scientific evidence.
Touche, Bloomberg. In other words, when we don’t approve your fascist policies is because we’re not engaging with you. Very cleaver, great way to fool an independent, the kind of people who think compromise isn’t a dirty word.
Have we forgotten how Eugenics was considered a science? And if you’re a liberal, science wasn’t always your friend, science after all said homosexuality was a mental disorder, science used to promote tobacco instead of banning it, even today the scientists at the FDA sometimes reject life-saving drugs out of stupid fears.
Science unlike religion is always changing, which is why the last thing we need is to have faith in science (although to be fair, Ayn Rand’s Objectivism rejects faith in anything).
We can’t risk becoming a country that turns its back on science, or on each other. And you graduates must help lead the way.
Bloomberg, we’re only turning our back on collectivism, on government mandates, on government-sponsored junk science. Every generation loves science, Millennials in particular can’t live without their iPhones, and even 39-year-old me has read Atlas Shrugged on his Kindle App.
Independents, beware of Bloomberg, this gun-hating “scientist” keeps 17-armed bodyguards, he doesn’t practice what he preaches.