Biology was already in trouble. Identity Politics Zealots proselytizing their Marxist cultural mythology put them on notice over the gender thing. But if an organism’s structures do not classify its status, there can be no science, only faith. Oh, and evolution is ableist!
The paper, “Discussions of the ‘Not So Fit’: How Ableism Limits Diverse Thought and Investigative Potential in Evolutionary Biology,” published in American Naturalist last year, accused the field of evolutionary biology of “ableism.” To demonstrate this, the authors manipulated statistics to give the illusion that the field of evolutionary biology is particularly discriminatory against disabled people by inappropriately comparing rates of disability within evolutionary biology to society generally.
The paper argues that concepts like “fitness” and “natural selection” — foundational to the field of evolutionary biology, which studies the diversification and adaptation of life forms over time — are “harmful” and have been “weaponized against marginalized communities in the modern day.”
Universities are the breeding grounds for this ignorance as it spreads into every intellectual well. A preeminent ideological theology whose dogma commands all others. And isn’t that rich?
Modern progressives have long accused the major religions, particularly Christianity, of being a backward and ignorant lot working to drag us back to the 12th century.
Christians built many of the first hospitals and founded some of our oldest universities. They collected knowledge from around the globe and secured it in their libraries. Hundreds of years later, their accusers have not only dumbed down government-run education, they are undermining science itself in the name of identity politics.
How long before Taxonomy is futile? If a man with a penis can be a woman, then any other mammal with one is just as easily reclassified as a female because someone feels like it or – sorry – is offended at the notion of rendering it.
Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species. It’s rubbish. Evolution was always sketchy science with supermassive black holes in it, but at least it tried to be science. And a lot of good science has come from it. We continue to learn and expand our understanding of a diverse world. How long will that last?
Can it last?
Twenty years ago, we giggled at politically correct people. We laughed at the early versions of university speech guides ten years ago. Today the inmates are running the asylum and churning out millions of missionaries who have infected corporate and government culture.
One paper claiming that evolution is ableist seems amusing and easily disproven, but the paper’s assumptions are not the issue. The problem is the education system that created the people who wrote it.
I know a few folks have woken up and are trying to take it back at the K-12 level, but it may not be enough. We’re in some deep ‘you know what.’
