Complimentary (Uh, Mandatory) Lethal Injections Courtesy Of The U.S. Handicapper General
Will the "equal outcomes" crowd start calling for executions? https://t.co/IXnwPOMzoK
— Amy Alkon (@amyalkon) November 10, 2020
U.S. Handicapper General? Remember, from Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron? Here's a bit but the whole thing is short and free at the link. Not so far-fetched now, huh?
"Harrison Bergeron, age fourteen," she said in a grackle squawk, "has just escaped from jail, where he was held on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the government. He is a genius and an athlete, is under-handicapped, and should be regarded as extremely dangerous."A police photograph of Harrison Bergeron was flashed on the screen-upside down, then sideways, upside down again, then right side up. The picture showed the full length of Harrison against a background calibrated in feet and inches. He was exactly seven feet tall.
The rest of Harrison's appearance was Halloween and hardware. Nobody had ever born heavier handicaps. He had outgrown hindrances faster than the H-G men could think them up. Instead of a little ear radio for a mental handicap, he wore a tremendous pair of earphones, and spectacles with thick wavy lenses. The spectacles were intended to make him not only half blind, but to give him whanging headaches besides.
Scrap metal was hung all over him. Ordinarily, there was a certain symmetry, a military neatness to the handicaps issued to strong people, but Harrison looked like a walking junkyard. In the race of life, Harrison carried three hundred pounds.
And to offset his good looks, the H-G men required that he wear at all times a red rubber ball for a nose, keep his eyebrows shaved off, and cover his even white teeth with black caps at snaggle-tooth random.
Note to Kamala: Harrison Bergeron is intended to be a cautionary tale, not an instruction manual.
Jay R at November 10, 2020 10:38 AM
Let's see. Women live longer, control more wealth, are more educated, control the result of every election, are the beneficiaries of the majority of health spending, are net recipients of tax expenditures while men are net payers of taxes, are exempt from selective service, are a majority of the population but are entitled to all the benefits of "minority" status, comprise 5% or less of workplace fatalities, etc., etc.
Feminists insist nonetheless that we live in a "patriarchy" of male privilege designed to benefit men and oppress women. Reality check, anyone? As Inigo Montoya once said, "I do not think that word means what you think it means."
Jay R at November 10, 2020 10:58 AM
Leftists want equal outcomes but not only do people have different abilities, they make different choices. Some people not only work hard at their job but they do consulting and paint their own house etc. In other words, they don't have time to hang out on the street--that is a choice.
Differences in ability can be astounding. I just saw that one of the 2 guys who without much help developed Unix and C passed away. In contrast, Microsoft had 1000 people working on Explorer and they couldn't keep it running. Some novelists put out a book per year, others barely a short story per decade. When Picasso died he left thousands of art pieces. These differences should translate into income.
cc at November 10, 2020 11:28 AM
Wow, what are the hispanics doing right? Should we all be eating more mexican food?
NicoleK at November 10, 2020 10:13 PM
Wow, what are the hispanics doing right? Should we all be eating more mexican food?
NicoleK at November 10, 2020 10:13 PM
You should be walking three miles down to the local bodega to buy yourself a single taco, and eat it slowly as you walk home.
Do this every day for three months, augmented by a two egg omelet, a cup of coffee, and a piece of fruit for fiber before you set out, and see how it goes.
On a more serious note, my poor German great grandparents lived well into their nineties. Born were born in Russia in the 1850’s with almost zero effective medical care. Their children, and grandchildren, wealthy enough to afford cars, cigarettes, booze, and copious amounts of sugar didn’t live nearly as long.
Isab at November 11, 2020 5:41 AM
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