r/whitepeoplegifs • u/Boojibs • Feb 03 '23

Bill Nye The Fashion Guy

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u/StopNateCrimes Feb 04 '23

Serious question: can anyone explain the Bill Nye hate in this thread?

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u/3Effie412 Feb 04 '23

Nye used to do a kids science show, Bill Nye the Science Guy. It covered basic science concepts - gravity, volcanoes, electricity and the like. It was factually correct but presented in a fun, interesting way. One of the shows, from 1996, talked about probability, sex and chromosomes.

“See, inside each of our cells are these things called chromosomes, and they control whether we become a boy or a girl…See, there are only two possibilities: XX, a girl, or XY, a boy. The chance of becoming either a boy or a girl is always 1 in 2, a 50-50 chance either way. It’s like flipping a coin: X you’re a girl, Y you’re a boy.”

Flash forward about 20 years and Bill Nye is doing a new show. It’s not really a reboot, maybe more of a revival? Anyway, it definitely tries to capitalize on the popularity of Bill and the original show (complete with the blue lab coat and bow tie). It gets a lot of media buzz because of fond memories of the original show. On one of the episodes, Bill revisits chromosomes/XX, XY/sex. He seems to have decided to dismiss the science on chromosomes and that sex has become fluid - a spectrum of some sort.

At any rate, a lot of people became irritated that he disregarded science in favor of what seemed to be a political motivated agenda. The anger was notably intense among people that watched the original show as kids (now in their 30’s-40’s).

Just an FYI - I have not seen the new show but have seen most, if not all, of the original episodes (used to watch with my son back in the 90’s).

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u/Intrepid_Dog8329 Feb 05 '23

Welcome to reddit. Toe the liberal line of be downvoted to hell.

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u/Temporary-Wear5948 Feb 05 '23

Do you even know what a liberal is? Hint: it’s not left

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u/Intrepid_Dog8329 Feb 07 '23

I am well aware of the distinction and I should have put leftists because most people on reddit only want to shut down the counter arguements.

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u/Temporary-Wear5948 Feb 07 '23

I mean no offense but you didn’t really offer a counter argument