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How ‘woke’ ideologies are upending American childhood
« on: March 05, 2023, 04:29:21 pm »
How ‘woke’ ideologies are upending American childhood

By Karol Markowicz and Bethany Mandel
March 4, 2023

“We like the book a lot but want to tone down the ‘fight’ message.”

We were talking to an editor at a major conservative publishing house about the book that would eventually become “Stolen Youth,” a book we hoped to write that would trace just how early leftist indoctrination targets children from every direction.

We felt like we had clicked with the editor, that she understood the project, and so, we sat there stunned as she told us that our book, about how parents should fight back against that indoctrination should feature a little less fighting back.

We were pitching the book in the spring of 2021, during a touchy time for conservative publishing imprints.

Abigail Shrier’s book, “Irreversible Damage,” about the social contagion of transgender ideation affecting teenage girls across America, had recently been pulled from Target, and Amazon was considering doing the same.

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We knew that our book would have to delve heavily into the transgender craze among other issues.

All of our sources told us that the woke indoctrination campaign was in many ways insidious, but when it came to gender, it was overt and aggressive.

The way kids are being indoctrinated, from early childhood, into the idea that they might be a different gender than the one of their birth is a critical part of the indoctrination campaign targeting American kids.

“Unless your name is Tucker Carlson, no one is taking a chance with a conservative book right now,” another editor told us.

We have large platforms, and we both write for a variety of outlets, yet we were a risky proposition for conservative publishers.

This is how the mob is most effective: they shut down dissenting voices through force. Our agent told us he’d never seen anything like it before.

We were not entirely surprised. A theme throughout our book is the way the left manages to shut down other viewpoints and how damaging this is for our society in general and children in particular.

That they were managing to do it even in the conservative publishing world was evidence of their reach.

The idea of conservative publishing houses is itself a push by the left to marginalize opinions with which they disagree.

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While they claim to want to make our society better and more just, the reality is the impact of their crusade is leading to a teenage mental health crisis.

They tell our kids that the world is ending, that they can be gunned down any minute, and that they should take a powerful cocktail of drugs if they feel uncomfortable in their prepubescent bodies.

Is it any wonder kids are less happy and more anxious than ever before in history? That’s the objective: you can’t start a revolution in a happy and stable society.

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We call it “woke” because it’s somewhat different than the simple liberal bias of the past.

Your own elementary school teacher might have had liberal politics but she knew what a woman was and didn’t try to sell you on the idea that your race decides your destiny but your gender can be changed from day to day.

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Wokeness allows for very limited thought and speech. Everything must be considered through the prism of wokeness and language must be adjusted to the acceptable confines.

Conformity is only a part of wokeness, however, the spectacle must follow.

This means that the woke teacher in 2023 can’t just parrot the correct words, she needs to demonstrate that she belongs to the tribe.

That might entail putting up a BLM sign or the latest iteration of the LGBT rainbow flag in her classroom.

Or it might mean that when a cluster of girls suddenly declare themselves trans, she keeps this a secret from their parents and helps get them “gender therapy.”

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/03/04/woke-ideologies-are-upending-american-childhood/