Posted on 05/07/2024 3:44:17 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Americans shocked at the aggressive protests on our most elite campuses often imagine these kids have become brainwashed while away at school.
That indoctrination certainly does take place. Yet the process for most starts far earlier, often in the K-12 years — or even before.
What we’re seeing on our campuses is the culmination of many years of leftist activists pushing kids to the forefront to spread their propaganda.
And it’s not remotely just board books like “A is for Activist” that introduce toddlers to the idea of protest before they even set foot in school.
Teachers push their agenda; whether climate change, gun control or the war in Gaza, they’re focused far less on teaching children how to think than what to think.
The goal is to turn kids into activists, and the sooner the better.
After all, children can be valuable for shutting down debate.
Their youth implies innocence and seems to confer moral authority: How could anyone argue with an innocent child?
Greta Thunberg famously quit school to campaign against climate change.
It was impossible to challenge a pig-tailed child, even if she demanded the world stop functioning.
Recall her tearful “how dare you!” in front of the UN Climate Action Summit in 2019?
It reverberated widely because of her age.
SEE ALSO Piers Morgan on Columbia protests Where the hell are the parents of these deluded Columbia students chanting about attacking Jews? A grown-up making the same plea would be seen as unbalanced.
Yet the idea of Greta as a climate-warrior spokesperson was born when a grown-up activist saw how teen anti-gun crusaders, after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas HS in Parkland, Fla., viciously attacked ideological foes with minimal pushback.
No one could argue with a traumatized teen — and that was the point.
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When will the brainwashing be called child abuse?
Anyone shocked has blinders on. Blame parents and the schools K - whatever.
If you have school aged kids you damn well know what’s being taught where you send them. You either change the school which I get isn’t always possible so you damn sure teach your kids the lies the schools are teaching them and fight hard.
As a now grandparent my kids taught theirs right and I do when we see them. I’ve got 4 7 to 16 years old grandkids that are conservative and know the lies they’re being told.
That’s 4 to 7 not 47...🤣🤣🤣
As I have watched America swirl around down the drain, I have often repeated, “Thank a teacher.”
Teachers have become “community organizers.”
I hated them whan I was a kid. I was right.
Don’t discount the role of parents who are proudly ignorant, suffer from Stockholm Syndrome or other mental illnesses such as Munchausen by Proxy, are apathetic to the growth and development of their own children, or actively support such Leftist conditioning.
It started when the communists fled the Fascist Nazis in Germany before WW2, and created The Frankfurt School of thought. They infiltrated our large universities and spread their communist beliefs. Critical Theory, instead of Critical Thinking.
It was easy at that point to change the politically (relative) neutral school system from one in which taught HOW to think for yourself, into one which indoctrinated WHAT to think.
Add the boomer generation belief that young HAD to go to college and you have a full fledged indoctrination system that will be very hard to back out of.
When those parents are packing off their infants to the care of strangers the parents are really not that interested in instilling beliefs or teaching civilized behavior to their own offspring.
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