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Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender

posted by Fnord666 on Friday May 05 2017, @09:53AM   
from the language-evolves-too dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

When uploaded to Netflix, an episode of the educational children's show "Bill Nye the Science Guy" cut out a segment saying that chromosomes determine one's gender.

[...] While noncontroversial at the time, the 1996 segment appears to contradict Netflix's new series "Bill Nye Saves the World."

The new show endorses a socially liberal understanding of gender, under which gender is defined by self-identification rather than genetics and there are more than just the two traditional genders.

People, people, people... Say it with me: The Internet Never Forgets.

Source: http://freebeacon.com/culture/netflix-edits-bill-nye-episode-remove-segment-chromosomes-determine-gender/

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• Re:I Think It's Sad Re:I Think It's Sad (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 05 2017, @11:11AM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 05 2017, @11:11AM (#504775)

  Tell that to the people conveniently redefining words like "truth" and "news" to fit their own agenda.

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• Re:I Think It's Sad (Score: 2) by Wootery on Friday May 05 2017, @11:24AM

  by Wootery (2341) on Friday May 05 2017, @11:24AM (#504780)

  That's stupid. You really want to try to argue that lying is essentially the same as trying to find a term for a new idea?

  My favourite example of lying by deliberate misuse of words: When the NSA redefined 'collect' to let them lie to a court about collecting data. [eff.org]

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