{"id":1523620,"date":"2022-06-20T08:35:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T12:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1523620"},"modified":"2022-06-20T08:35:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T12:35:22","slug":"bill-nye-science-guy-and-biden-ally-offers-his-facts-about-juneteenth-oops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-nye-science-guy-and-biden-ally-offers-his-facts-about-juneteenth-oops\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Nye, \u2018Science Guy\u2019 And Biden Ally, Offers His Facts About Juneteenth. Oops."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbill-nye-science-guy-and-biden-ally-offers-his-facts-about-juneteenth-oops%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1523620&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Bill Nye, the supposed \u201cScience Guy,\u201d offered his sage opinion on American history on Sunday to celebrate June 19.<\/p>\n<p>He got blasted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States we know today was built with the labor of enslaved Black Americans. The last were not freed (officially) until 19 June 1865. Let us celebrate\u2014 and never forget,\u201d Nye tweeted, accompanied by a photo of him holding a pocket copy of the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The United States we know today was built with the labor of enslaved Black Americans. The last were not freed (officially) until 19 June 1865. Let us celebrate\u2014 and never forget. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AtfgkoZ3FN\">pic.twitter.com\/AtfgkoZ3FN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bill Nye (@BillNye) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillNye\/status\/1538634230946844674?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Posts on social media pointed out that Nye got it wrong on several counts; the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves in America, was passed in 1863 but was not ratified until December 1865, and slavery was still present in several states even after U.S. General Gordon Granger told Texans on June 19, 1865, that the Emancipation Proclamation had been passed in 1863, the date celebrated as \u201cJuneteenth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is not true. Juneteenth doesn\u2019t commemorate the 13th Amendment. It commemorates news of the Emancipation Proclamation reaching Texas. Two union states had slavery until December 1865.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 InvestingLegend (@Investinglegend) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Investinglegend\/status\/1538720397599944704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Not exactly. You\u2019re right about the economy being built on slavery, both north and south, but slavery didn\u2019t end on Juneteenth. It ended December 6, 1865 when the 13th Amendment was ratified. Slavery was STILL legal in the \u201cnorthern\u201d states of Delaware and Kentucky until that day<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 L. Ron James (@CaptainLetdown) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CaptainLetdown\/status\/1538654493671362561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Too bad Bill Nye was wrong. <\/p>\n<p>The last enslaved people weren&#8217;t freed until the 13th Amendment was ratified in December 1865. <\/p>\n<p>The Emancipation Proclamation didn&#8217;t cover Kentucky, along with Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, &#038; Missouri. <\/p>\n<p>Read a history book Bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CatsFanInOhio \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@michaeldf88) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaeldf88\/status\/1538718447261175808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last November, President Biden joined Nye in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/science-guy-bill-nye-roasted-tiktok-video\">much-criticized video<\/a> supporting Biden\u2019s trillion-dollar infrastructure bill.<\/p>\n<p>Nye has offered his profound wisdom before; in May 2019, he threw a temper tantrum in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/bill-nye-on-john-oliver-says-the-planets-on-f-fire-and-we-need-to-grow-the-f-up-cimate-change\/\">video<\/a> played on HBO\u2019s \u201cLast Week Tonight with John Oliver,\u201d hysterically proclaiming, \u201cThe planet\u2019s on f***ing fire!\u201d and ranting, \u201cGrow the f*** up! You\u2019re not children anymore!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The video of Nye and his expletive-laden rant was prompted by Oliver, who asserted:<\/p>\n<p><em>However bumpy its rollout was, to its eternal credit the Green New Deal has succeeded in getting people talking. But that won\u2019t mean anything unless that talk now turns to actions, and putting a price on carbon could potentially be one of them, although let me reiterate, it will not be enough on its own by a longshot. We\u2019re going to need a lot of different policies working in tandem and we have to take action right now. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But you don\u2019t have to just take that from me; instead, I\u2019m happy to say that Bill Nye has actually agreed to help drive the urgency home at this point by actually doing one of his enjoyable lighthearted demonstrations. So Bill, please, please, do you have a fun experiment for us?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The video of Nye showed him in his lab coat accompanied by a globe, a blanket, a fire extinguisher, and a pile of sand. Nye stated, \u201cHere, I\u2019ve got an experiment for you. Safety glasses on.\u201d Donning glasses, he continued, \u201cBy the end of this century, if emissions keep rising, the average temperature on Earth could go up another four to eight degrees.\u201d Yanking out a blowtorch, he then announced, \u201cWhat I\u2019m saying is, the planet\u2019s on f***ing fire!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nye torched the globe, then pointed to the sand, blanket, and fire extinguisher on the table with the globe, saying, \u201cThere are a lot of things we could do to put it out. Are any of them free? No, of course not, nothing\u2019s free, you idiots!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nye yelled, \u201cGrow the f*** up! You\u2019re not children anymore! I didn\u2019t mind explaining photosynthesis to you when you were 12, but you\u2019re adults now, and this is an actual crisis! Got it?!\u201d Removing his glasses, he snapped, \u201cSafety glasses off, motherf*****s!\u201d Nye made a vain attempt to blow out the burning globe, then walked offscreen.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2016\/08\/bill-nye-science-guy-climate-change-its-politics-not-science\/\">noted<\/a>\u00a0by National Review\u2019s Ian Tuttle:<\/p>\n<p><em>William Sanford Nye\u2019s scientific bona fides consists of an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell, and a stint at Boeing. But you can be anything you want on television, and in the late 1980s, hard at work pursuing a career in comedy, Nye landed a recurring bit as Bill Nye \u201cthe Science Guy\u201d on Almost Live!, a Seattle-area sketch-comedy television show, and a role as Christopher Lloyd\u2019s laboratory sidekick on Back to the Future: The Animated Series.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Even the founder of The Weather Channel, John Coleman, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/04\/29\/weather-channel-founder-calls-bill-nye-a-pretend-scientist-in-a-bow-tie\/\">told<\/a> Climate Depot, \u201cI have always been amazed that anyone would pay attention to Bill Nye, a pretend scientist in a bow tie. As a man who has studied the science of meteorology for over 60<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Nye, the supposed \u201cScience Guy,\u201d offered his sage opinion on American history on Sunday to celebrate June 19. He got blasted. \u201cThe United States we know today was built with the labor of enslaved Black Americans. The last were not freed (officially) until 19 June 1865. Let us celebrate\u2014 and never forget,\u201d Nye tweeted, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1523723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1523620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1523620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1523723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1523620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1523620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1523620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}