The Innocence of Children is at Stake
Don’t fall for the old line about “cancel culture” run amok, especially when the innocence of children is at stake.
You hear this a lot? The out-of-control Woke Left is taking things too far!
The latest cases are the “cancelings” of Dr. Seuss and Mr. Potato Head. Tucker Carlson recently called this “demented,” and it is! But it’s also something far worse.
Bizzaro accusations of racism and sexism are the Woke Left’s bread and butter. Their main course, however, is children.
It may be uncomfortable to confront this truth, but it teaches us important lessons about the nature of this subtle and sinister threat to liberty.
Why do they do this?
Children are the prize that the Cultural Marxists keep their eyes on. We know that also means, frighteningly, even newborn babies. There are also examples of preschool toddlers being introduced to Critical Race Theory or depraved sexual propaganda where parents may least expect. The undermining of parents goes hand-in-hand with capturing their babies.
For now, though, much of their focus is on school age kids and their budding imaginations. Those who would read Dr. Seuss or play with Mr. Potato Head will read less Seuss and play with a genderless potato.
The Woke Left isn’t expanding children’s minds, but dulling them down with politically correct rules. That’s what this is all about. Conformity and uniformity.
The long game
In his revealing short book, Education: Free and Compulsory, Murray Rothbard recounted the untold history of the 19th and 20th century progressive takeovers of children’s development and independence.
“Not only is uniformity more congenial to the bureaucratic temper and easier to enforce; this would be almost inevitable where collectivism has supplanted individualism,” he writes.
Rothbard continued: “Therefore, techniques of inculcating reverence for despotism and other types of ‘thought control’ are bound to emerge. Instead of spontaneity, diversity, and independent men, there would emerge a race of passive, sheep-like followers of the State. Since they would be only incompletely developed, they would only be half-alive.”
Is it becoming more clear now? No longer can the Right afford to laugh off the wicked Woke Left’s tactics. It’s gone on for too long, especially with regard to children’s toys and entertainment.
Homeland Security will take their children away
Just earlier this year, Project Veritas caught on video the principal counsel for the Public Broadcasting System (PBS), Michael Beller, saying, “Even if Biden wins, we go for all the Republican voters, and Homeland Security will take their children away.”
“And we’ll put them into re-education camps,” Beller said.
“Enlightenment camps,” he added. “They're nice, they have Sesame Street characters in the classrooms, and they watch PBS all day.”
Millions of parents are being further conditioned to not monitor their children’s media intake, as those decisions are handed down for them from giant corporations and other institutions in on the scams of Critical Race Theory, transgenderism, and other state-promoted ideologies.
A shift in the Zeitgeist
There was a moment in 2020 when it seemed like the zeitgeist shifted. Remember the Netflix show Cuties and the huge spike in unsubscriptions from customers? Unfortunately, it wasn’t enough cancelations to force Netflix to drop the show that overtly used little girls to tease underage sex. People loved watching The Office too much.
It’s time for parents and communities to rally together to rebuild the barriers that used to protect children from these powerful third parties.
No, I’m not calling for a return to the cringe 1990’s when Tipper Gore wanted warning stickers on naughty rap and metal CDs or violent videogames. That was literally a band-aid approach.
The problem today is it’s easier than ever for special interests to gain access to children. That’s thanks in large part to compulsory public school laws and also to the rise of single-parent households and those with two working parents.
Therefore, the measures taken must be ones that reverse who’s being undermined by whom. At the local and state level, compulsory schooling laws need to be abolished or at least heavily curtailed. School board campaigns will be more crucial than almost any other race for any other office.
Thankfully, interest in homeschooling seems to be on the rise following the Covid lockdowns. Resources are out there, both online and offline in some local church circles. Even if you don’t have kids, consider upping your advocacy for families that do and for the institutions that serve them as well.
It will take well-organized grassroots efforts to land direct hits on the leftist centers of power and influence like teachers unions, media companies, etc.
All-of-the-above might be a good description for the strategy necessary to defend the innocence and independence of children and more families in the future.
At the very least, the Right must be conscious of the temptation to frame the world inside old, comfortable ideological parameters. The issue does not boil down to, Well, duh, Hasbro owns Mr. Potato Head, so they have the right to make him genderless. Not the point.
This is also not about “cancel culture” failing to effectively fight true sexism and racism. If you see people talking like this, call them out.