There is no difference between someone who chooses to ignore or deny the science on vaccinating against preventable diseases or smoking or pollution and those who choose to ignore the science on various sexual practices and promiscuity which spread some of the very diseases vaccines are developed to avoid - and a myriad of known and unknown infections and diseases for which there is no vaccine - and the kind of science I cited yesterday on the health effects of drinking even what would be called normal levels of alcohol. The epidemiological evidence, other evidence in that and other scientific reports and expert analyses shows that even moderate drinking significantly increases your chance of developing different cancers, liver disease, diabetes, heart disease, etc. which should come as no surprise because alcohol, itself, is a poison and there are known pathogens contained in many kinds of alcohol, some of which give different varieties their distinctive tastes.
It's hilarious to me to see how the foremost supporters of science are among the first to deny what science shows when they don't like the results. They've got a lot more in common with anti-vaxxers, climate change deniers, the tobacco industry and others they despise and disdain and feel superior to. Secular lefties are largely a fraud, in the end.
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And, yeah, I do rather despise the ACLU for its epic enablement of Republican-fascism, white supremacists, Nazis and fascists and, most of all the oligarchs who own the media. Whatever supposed good they do they more than wipe out through their free speech and press absolutism. I wonder if they'd never existed if we might not, actually, be a lot farther ahead in equality and democracy than we are, now. I suspect we might be. They have had a role in the promotion of alcohol and in setting us up for the epidemics originating in prescription drug addiction. As in the way of lawyers and judges, the havoc their lofty principles produce in real life is something they just wash their hands of, saying that governments can solve it by putting more burdens on the education system* and through the struggle to put taxes on things like alcohol and through enhanced policing when the actual history of the things they advocate shows that those are never going to fix the problems their own briefs anticipate being the result of their "free speech-free press" advocacy. The ACLU is a century old fraud and it's time someone from the real left called them on it.
* Just how much do those asshole lawyers and judges figure teachers can fit into a school day? It makes me wonder how many of them attended public schools or have their brats in them. I'd love a comprehensive list of things judges and Justices have said is the responsibility of public educators, how many more things ACLU and other lawyers have airily proposed adding to the subject load of the school day.
Take this passage of the ACLU press release I linked to yesterday:
ABC lawyers maintained that the rules were put in place to reduce illegal consumption of alcohol by students, but the court said there was no evidence that the advertising ban had any effect on underage drinking and that it was clear that there were other legitimate ways the state could reduce student drinking, including educational programs, increased taxation on alcohol, and counter-advertising.
Increased taxation is a good place to start in our confrontation with this willful unreality. They propose that as a fix for the problems they create as if it's the easiest thing in the world for a state legislature to put an increased tax on alcohol - no doubt with the well financed opposition of the liquor industry and their paid-for allies in public office - and at a level that will really inhibit alcohol abuse. Not to mention that you might get your state to do it but that is no guarantee that your neighboring state won't price alcohol lower in order to get cross border liquor run business. That's one of the things that "tax free New Hampshire" is famous for in all three states that border it. I remember reading about more than a few fatal car crash that was the result of a liquor run.
And that doesn't even get you to the supposed possibility of effectively countering the myriads of ACLU aided liquor ads and promotions, paid product placement, etc. through the already overburdened schools. Apparently the lawyers of the ACLU and the judges and justices imagine that you can magically expand the school day, the school year to encompass everything that they dream up to stuff into the curriculum and that students are going to magically take it in and it is going to have the desired effect to ameliorate the effects of their actions.
And that's on top of what the courts, no doubt in most cases along the lines of ACLU briefs, have required public schools to do in such things as "mainstreaming" seriously and dangerously violent children, children who have the most disruptive of special needs requiring the hiring of additional staff, acting as first responders when there are emergencies such as those armed by the Supreme Court, an issue where, finally, the ACLU feels it needs to two-step around its past advocacy AND EVEN SOME OF ITS PRESENT POSITIONS.
Maybe someone should pay the band leader to play a song with a very appropriate title for this situation in which the ACLU and the courts continually propose heaping more and more onto public school teachers and students, Somethings Got To Give. I'd rather see it be this line of "free speech - free press - free guns" bull shit than the public schools and a decent life in the United States.
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