Posted on 11/18/2022 2:12:19 PM PST by PoliticallyShort
hough Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH) events at local libraries are presented as innocuous, family-friendly gatherings that help elevate historically oppressed sexual minorities, their real purpose is deliberately subversive. “The drag queen might appear as a comic figure,” Chris Rufo writes in a recent expose in City Journal, “but he carries an utterly serious message: the deconstruction of sex, the reconstruction of child sexuality, and the subversion of middle-class family life."
According to queer theory advocate Gayle Rubin, traditional concepts of sex and gender were mythologies constructed by powerful, heteronormative forces that sought to persecute those with non-conforming sexual orientations, explains Rufo. By combining a metaphysic that denied that sex, gender, and marriage were unchanging essences and an oppressor-oppressed binary, Rubin hoped to turn traditional sexual norms on their head. In her book Gender Trouble, Judith Butler continued Rubin’s postmodern project by adding the concept of performativity as a mechanism of social change. Once gender’s malleability was established by calling its very reality into question, gender performance through crossdressing, transvestitism, and transgenderism intentionally blurred the lines between the real and unreal, moral and immoral, acceptable and unacceptable.
Once drag ideology gained a foothold in the academy, drag advocates, according to Rufo, sought to rebrand drag performances as family-friendly, educational story hours in local libraries. But DQSH actually created a new childhood paideia: the stimulation of “queer imagination” among children that would teach them “queer ways of knowing and being” and disrupt the so-called oppressive bourgeois norms their parents had taught them. As Rufo explains, “the goal was not to reinforce the biological family but to facilitate the child’s transition into the ideological family.”
Drag Queen Story Hour seeks to destroy childhood innocence and introduce the most demonic forms of sexual perversion into public life: pedophilia, incest, bestiality, necrophilia, and prostitution.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanmind.org ...
Referenced article in City Journal is excellent and thorough.
When is that damn asteroid coming???
Title is self contradicting ...
It is nothing of the sort.
It cites Chris Rufo, who to my knowledge is a conservative,(IIRC, the time I’ve heard him was on Levin’s show) all the while smearing conservatives with the likes of names like David French, who left conservatism behind some time ago. Paul D. Miller worked for Obama - is Obama now a conservative? How is that thorough?
I don’t know if this article is meant to be a joke or outright propaganda, but if it can’t even identify people properly, it starts out fatally flawed.
What qualifies a “Drag Queen” to do anything around children?
Rhetorical question of course.
“Conservative Apostles for Drag Queen Story Hour”
Headline writer is working above his pay grade.
“Dan Crenshaw”
Ha, you made me look.
The author is BEN Crenshaw.
I am referring to the Chris Rufo article. Not sure if you are referring to the same? Rufo’s analysis explains the origins and goals of DQSH.
Now I’m even more convinced we are living in the last days before the rapture and tribulation.
Ah, I see. You did initially type that. That’s my fault for putting it together incorrectly.
Rufo is, as usual, thorough. The same can’t be said for Ben Crenshaw.
For the majority of the Founders, liberty was not merely the absence of external coercion. Instead, it was the proper ordering of one’s life toward temporal goods (e.g., life, liberty, family, work, education, friendship, justice) and eternal goods (e.g., religious worship, knowledge of God, Christian fellowship, a virtuous soul, eternal happiness) as understood by reason and revelation and supported by robust civil law. These goods—known collectively as the “common good”—placed constraints upon individual rights and acted as a bulwark against actions that violated the rights of others or harmed these human goods. America was founded according to an overwhelming Christian conception of natural law and natural rights that sought to protect the life, liberty, and safety of all, while also pursuing the nobler ends of political justice and genuine happiness.At the time of the Founding, sex, gender, marriage, and the family were thought to be grounded upon the laws of nature and necessary to safeguard the vitality of American civilization. There is no evidence from eighteenth century political and moral literature that these goods were thought to be endlessly adaptable or that marriage was anything other than a monogamous and exclusive heterosexual relationship. Laws against sex outside of marriage, prohibitions on sodomy and bestiality, laws against polygamy and divorce, and attempts to tamp down prostitution, public indecency, and obscenity abounded.
Bkmk
From behind enemy lines here in Michigan:(candidate Nessel was strongly supported by Dems and re-elected this month 53%-45%)————
LANSING, Mich. (TND) — “Drag queens make everything better” and there should be a “drag queen for every school,” according to reported comments from Michigan’s Attorney General Dana Nessel.
Nessel made the comments during a speech at a civil rights conference in Lansing, according to Craig Mauger of The Detroit News. Nessel is the first openly gay person to be elected to a statewide office in Michigan.
Nessel admitted the “drag queen for every school” suggestion had not been “poll tested.”
Nessel’s speech reportedly concerned what she believes to be “fake issues” that are being used to divide people.
Some of the performances are taxpayer-funded, records show. One organization in New York City that puts on “drag queen story hours” for children has reportedly received over $200,000 in taxpayer money.
Source: News Channel 3 (Michigan) June 16, 2022.
This is obviously part of the trend in Leftists normalizing aberrant behavior.
The worst for me so far are the TV ads for HIV drugs by the pharmaceutical companies. Showing young men gazing at each other, flirting, then hugging and cuddling while the narrative cautions against the drug side effects.
Sick and Golden Calf era stuff.
I could see where you might be led astray thinking that Ben was arguing
Either that or I am misreading him. 🙂
I think we’re saying largely the same thing.
The only thing I’m dissing Ben on is failing to understand the difference between a conservative and a republican.
David French can claim to be a conservative all he wants. Why do we have to believe him, why should we trust him? I know I don’t. But Ben clearly does trust French. It’s in the headline.
I’m quite frankly tired of being smeared as a conservative by someone else who isn’t bright enough to know that their target for derision isn’t a conservative. Why is French your fault or mine? He isn’t. For that reason, Crenshaw’s article is a massive fail. French is a massive fail.
Conservatism is not failing here. Conservatism is just fine.
But I honestly believe that is Ben's point. David French identifies himself as being a conservative, so other people see him as a conservative. Ben is saying that these who are portraying themselves as conservative need to be recognized as the frauds that they are. The press uses them as conservatives to say even conservatives see the need to go along with a narrative, be it about supporting those who identify as transsexuals while ignoring that they really suffer from a mental illness known as gender dysphoria, or orange man is not only bad, but dangerous.
They were were/are known as conservatives who practice compassionate conservatism. Conservatives can be compassionate, but should not be stupid when doing so. Unfortunately they are stupid. They are the people who have rightly given the GOP the moniker of being the Stupid Party.
They are in their minds among the elites, well educated and financially better off than most citizens. They look down on the general population with disdain, for they too have a mental illness. That mental illness is a superiority complex. In reality, they are completely out-of-touch with reality.
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