Op-Ed: How the Left is Using CRT and Queer Ideology to Kill your Kids
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Editor’s Note. This is a long Twitter thread by Josh Daws, host of the Great Awokening Podcast, that we put into print form. We don’t agree with Daws on everything, and he actually has us blocked on Twitter. Still, this is worth the read:
“I’m seeing a lot of people on the right share this meme. While it may be a strong satirical response to those who get lost in nuance, it fundamentally fails to recognize why the left wants to talk to your kids about sexuality. Let’s connect some dots. 🧵
The left doesn’t want to diddle kids. They want to create little revolutionaries. To do that they need to sever the bond between students and the parents they believe are raising their children to be hateful bigots.
In order to sever the bond between parents and their children, the left is using a two-pronged approach. Critical Race Theory and radical gender ideology (properly known as Queer Theory) are not two unrelated sets of ideas. They are two parts of the same strategy. CRT is usually the first set of ideas to be introduced. This is often enough to radicalize racial minorities, but it’s merely step one for white (or white adjacent) students.
CRT instills in these students a negative self-identity as they’re taught to believe they’re recipients of enormous privilege that was stolen from others and that they are complicit in historic and ongoing injustice. In child terms, they’re taught to believe they’re bad. Apart from the shame and guilt, this also gives them a worldview at odds with the one their parents grew up with and are trying to pass on to their kids.
Step one is complete. Once CRT is done tearing down these kids and leaving them with a negative self-identity, Queer Theory (QT) is introduced and offers them a wide assortment of positive self-identities to choose from. Instead of living with the shame and guilt of being a member of the oppressive dominant culture, these students can be celebrated for coming out as gender nonbinary or pansexual. In an instant, these kids can trade their negative self-identity and all the accompanying guilt and shame of being an “oppressor” for a positive self-identity as a much-venerated “oppressed” minority.
At this point, the left desperately wants this new identity to stay at school so it has time to be cemented before the parents find out. In the guise of helping these students, schools withhold this information about their child’s new identity from mom and dad. Once the parents do find out about their child’s new identity it’s firmly in place and an adversarial relationship between the child and parents has been manufactured.
It takes extraordinarily deft parenting to repair the relationship once it has reached this stage. The parents’ tendency will be to overreact and push the child further into the arms of the woke radicals who now have the little revolutionary they wanted from the beginning. The bond between parents and child has been severed ending the perpetuation of hate and bigotry.
The left is determined to replicate this process in as many families as they can using whatever means at their disposal. It’s not about diddling kids. It’s about capturing the minds of impressionable children. Unfortunately, this creates environments where actual predators can thrive. When young children are isolated from their parents, encouraged to adopt different beliefs, and keep secrets from their parents, they are made easy targets for abusers. “But my school has Christian teachers and a Christian principal. They couldn’t possibly have this agenda.” Aha. This is where we turn to @joe_rigney and connect another dot via Do You Feel My Pain? Empathy, Sympathy, and Dangerous Virtues
Empathy has become a more popular virtue than sympathy in recent decades. But the shift does not come without its dangers. Hear me loud and clear on this. Most teachers love the kids in their classrooms and want only the best for them. They have had their empathy *for* these students weaponized *against* them by leftist activists promoting educational programs that sound nice and caring. Highly empathetic teachers are being used to promote this agenda unaware of its insidious purpose.
An example: I recently saw a teacher at a Christian school announce that she would no longer be using the words “mom”, “dad”, or “parents” in her classroom. Her reason? She had just read a paper on the importance of making kids from non-traditional families feel included. She suggested replacing “Donuts with Dads” with “Bagels with Buds” or something of the such. This sounds like a very considerate thing to do for kids who might feel different because they don’t have a dad or live with their grandparents, but its purpose is to subtly chip away at the very idea of the normative nuclear family (a stated goal of the BLM organization.)
Christians who think that we can embrace the ideas from CRT and reject radical gender ideology need to realize how the former is used to prepare kids to accept the latter. These are your kids we’re talking about. The left wants them. They would love to sever your bond with them. They think your appeals to childhood innocence are an attempt to force heteronormativity on them. Seriously. They write papers on it. It’s not a secret agenda. @mentions has recorded a three-part series walking through this entire agenda by looking at primary sources. I highly recommend all parents invest the time to listen to them.
The meme I opened this 🧵 with is an easy response to the insanity we’re seeing today, but it’s not a great explanation. We should take the time to help people see how nice-sounding programs are being used in the classroom to create little activists and put kids in danger.
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I’ve always wondered if one of the main objectives of Barack Obama when he took office as president in January 2009, probably illegally if he was born in Africa as his likely, one of his major initiatives was to reproduce himself in terms of making as many “ community organizers“ as possible. In other words as many what we now know where is SJW‘s to join antifa and Black Lives Matter as we saw two years ago, and I’ve recruited quite a few. The earlier they can start on them regarding the brainwashing, the better.
In the end, you have to blame the parents for being so out of it in their kids lives and just willingly handing them over to the state to partially raise them and then wonder why they wind up hating them and their country later on. Part of this is also to convince them to not procreate either through becoming homosexual or “transgender,” as if that were possible.
I fell into this myself wanting to live in a big house which required right now ex-wife to work as well, and I suspect many Americans are in this trap rather than living more humbly and stopping sacrificing their kids to the state.
What an eye-opening look at the “psychology” behind the leftist agenda. Unfortunately, this seems to work on adults as well, and as this site and others have chronicled, has heavily invaded the church. Wow…
The New Left of the 60’s has executed the “long march through the institutions,” better than they could have hoped.
Starting in the 70’s they openly stated they where going to work within the “system” to tear it down. It’s bearing fruit today. As New Left thinker, former CPUSA member, and University of California Professor Angela Davis stated, “Critical Theory is the academic arm of the revolution.”
Critical Theory has taken over our university systems, especially the schools of education, law, English, and social work. Over the last three decades this has indoctrinated a cadre of professional “experts” that now teach our children, litigate, and advise on mental health issues.
Check out these reports if you are curious how conservatives in the universities have been warning of this:
Jay Schalin, “The Politicization of University Schools of Education: The Long March through the Education Schools,” Martin Center, 2019, https://www.jamesgmartin.center/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/The-Politicization-of-University-Schools-of-Education.pdf
David Randall, “Report: Social Justice Education in America,” National Association of Scholars, 2019, https://www.nas.org/reports/social-justice-education-in-america/full-report