Missourian
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These folks have lost the plot.
Shaming Squirrels for Their Privilege
This is an actual study.
A biologist at some super-left-leaning college in California, the land of needles and feces (a long way from milk and honey, I know) and two medical researchers from UCLA published a study examining, I redacted-you-not, “The nature of privilege: intergenerational wealth in animal societies.” They probably got a government grant for this.
You’ll quickly see from the study that the authors really, really hate squirrels:
"For example, some (b) North American red squirrels (g1) transfer stores of acorns (middens) to one individual (g2) but not to others, imposing differential fitness outcomes on young squirrels that perpetuate across future generations"
"In North American red squirrels, a mother may store spruce cones on her territory and privilege her daughter by bequeathing a rich territory to her; daughters who receive these resources survive longer and reproduce earlier than those without."