Woke Science: Lamenting Animal Inequality is Now a Thing

By Selwyn Duke

Are Mac ’n‘ Tosh too painfully posh? Is your hamster hoarding what should be redistributed? Does a polar bear have white privilege? While such questions, per se, aren’t being asked, they do epitomize a new phenomenon:

What Charles Darwin called “survival of the fittest” scholars and media are increasingly chalking up to “animal privilege” — and they’re couching the matter in “economic and sociological terms such as inequality and intergenerational wealth,” as the College Fix puts it.

Relating that science is now quite broken, the Fix continues, “‘Squirrel privilege is real.’ ‘Checking Privilege in the Animal Kingdom.’ ‘Even Hermit Crabs Have Wealth Inequality.’”

No, you haven’t landed at the Babylon Bee. Rather, “These headlines hail from Salon and The New York Times, respectively, and represent a growing trend among scholars and the media to tackle animal ‘inequality’ — and also argue humans can learn important lessons about income inequality and privilege from such studies”....

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