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In this case it goes beyond Young-Eartherism. She's also a chemtrail nutter.
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In March 2013, she wrote an addled Facebook post about her belief the government was purposely poisoning its citizens with chemicals sprayed by airplanes, confusing white contrails left by aircraft with chemical trails.
“Ok, I do not want to get into a debate about weather. However, I know what I see weekly up here on the flat where I live outside of Snowflake. The planes usely (sic), three or four, fly a grid across the sky and leave long white trails streaming behind them. I have watched the chem-trails move out until the entire sky is covered with flimsy, thin cloud cover,” she wrote. “Things are happening all around us that we see everyday and just don’t get what it is. I think we throw the ‘conspiracy theory’ at people when we don’t understand or have the information they have so we try and explain it that way.”
She's a classic example of willful ignorance combined with the intense dislike of science that typifies a certain large segment of social conservatives, mainly because science is the vehicle for social change in that it demonstrates where we as a society have been doing things wrong and suggests better courses of action. This upsets those who are adamantly opposed to change (as William F. Buckley once proudly stated, those "standing athwart history, yelling 'Stop!'").
Is anyone remotely surprised that the Arizona power structure has decided that this woman, imbued with natural ignorance and obstinately opposed to reality, should run a committee empowered with overseeing the education of the state's youth?
She also believes in "mandatory church attendance", which makes her a fascist or at least a proto-fascist. Although often such positions are held in isolation from one another as if they all stand alone, and thus, they never get implemented and possibly she doesn't really expect them to. They are, as largely with Trump, just ways to stir her base. But certainly such a person helming educational policy in any way is a disaster.
I would never say that a theist could not make a good education policy chief ... some of them are compartmentalized and intelligent enough that they can still do such jobs with integrity. But total wing nuts like this?? Unless she's a total cynical manipulator who doesn't care if she acts consistently with her beliefs, she can't possibly not do education some harm. Although as a former citizen of AZ I have to say the educational system is pretty harmed already. And also, a lot of the nutters seem to come from the Snowflake / Show Low area. Nice mix of standard fundies and conservative Mormons as I recall.
And I thought the white trails I saw streaming from the wingtips of the Malaysian airlines Jumbo when looking out of the window were merely condensation trails. If only I had known that they were spreading chemicals, I'd have demanded the Pilot turn then off Right Now!
It's what happens when you let people think that 'beliefs' should be 'respected'.
Rafius???
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And I thought the white trails I saw streaming from the wingtips of the Malaysian airlines Jumbo when looking out of the window were merely condensation trails. If only I had known that they were spreading chemicals, I'd have demanded the Pilot turn then off Right Now!
