Posted on 11/18/2023 6:53:37 AM PST by george76
The Girl Scouts of the USA has announced a new direction that will see the organization push radical Marxist training programs for children.
The Girl Scouts is set to offer a four-part Marxism-based “racial equity” training series to volunteers and parents.
Part of the training will focus on “internalized racism” and “white supremacy culture.”
The 111-year-old organization was originally created to serve America’s young women.
However, the Girl Scouts now appears to have adopted far-left Critical Race Theory (CRT).
CRT is the divisive Marxism-rooted ideology that has taken root in America’s schools and corporations.
The four-part series is set to begin on December 13.
It will start with a virtual lesson titled “Foundations in Racial Equity.”
Not to be confused with “equality,” the Left’s “equity” agenda is based on Marxism.
Whereas “equality” teaches that everybody should be treated equally, no matter their race or sex, “equity” asserts that people should be treated differently depending on their skin color, “gender identity,” or mental state.
Under the “equity” ideology, for example, a transgender would be given advantages, such as securing a college scholarship or being offered a job, over a normal person.
A month later on January 16, the organization will launch the second part of its training program dubbed “Foundations in Internalized Racism.”
“Understanding and Decentering White Supremacy Culture” will take place on February 5.
The final lesson, titled “Navigating Change, Power and Equitable Decision Making,” takes place in late March.
“These D.E.I. Racial Equity workshops are designed for participants to engage in building a learning community, developing shared language and analysis around diversity, inclusion, and equity, deeply interrogating race,” a description of the sessions reads.
“Participants also interrogate structural racism and its historical construction while reflecting greatly on the way it manifests in our individual experiences, organizational dynamics, and systemic outcomes.”
The lessons will be held through GS Learn, a training platform for Girl Scout volunteers and family members of Girl Scouts.
The decision to offer “racial equity” lessons is mired in the dogmas of Critical Race Theory.
It comes after the Girl Scouts announced earlier this year that young members could earn an “LGBTQ+ Pride Month Fun Patch” if they attended a pride parade.
They were also tasked with memorizing a poem written by an author who identifies as LGBTQ, reading “about the Stonewall uprising in 1969 and its importance to the LGBTQ+ community,” or writing a poem of their own about the event.
The Girl Scouts have also published an “anti-racism guide” inspired by CRT.
The guide claims color-blindness “perpetuates racism” and that young children show a “bias towards whiteness.”
The guide instructs parents to talk to their children about racism, even implying that parents who refuse may be perpetuating unequal “justice, health, and education systems.”
The upcoming racial equity training sessions will be held in conjunction with the Equity Paradigm Group.
The North Carolina-based consulting firm characterizes itself as “a group of diversity practitioners, adult learning facilitators, researchers, organizers, change agents, and passionate social justice activists who are dedicated to evolving the way in which organizations approach their work.”
“We ground our work in the historical construction of race as a system of advantage to analyze ourselves, our actions, and to identify the underlying, implicit assumptions and biases that hold us back,” the Equity Paradigm Group states.
The consulting firm notes that their training sessions cover a variety of different topics.
Those subjects include: “Strategies for Applying an Intersectional Racial Equity Lens,” “Defining and Pursuing Liberation,” and “Naming & De-centering White Dominant Culture.”
The Boy Scouts of America have also pushed radical leftist worldviews on race.
The group announced in 2021 that aspiring Eagle Scouts would have to earn the “Citizenship in Society” merit badge.
The guide for merit badge counselors — the adults who walk scouts through the process of earning the badge — directs readers to resources that bash colorblindness, denigrate Christopher Columbus, and celebrate the LGBT movement.
Thank you. Sad but not surprised.
“They have been there for decades.”
I believe they have been pushing for confiscatory gun laws in the U.S. for at least 50 years.
Yes, the Girl Scouts are gun grabbers and have been.
1) Abortion is horrific.
2) Letting someone else pay their way through life is shameful.
3) People who assert group rights based on alleged past oppression are inevitably scammers.
…then none of these Communist entities can thrive.
But hand the kids a cellphone and ignore them and successful collectivist indoctrination is the inevitable result. And you will be the first ones their indoctrinations teach them to hate.
Suggestions: Indian Guides and Indian Princesses. Dads weekends with their sons and daughters, not to be missed.
Hate to break it to folks but GSUSA has been far left for a long time.
Walmart (Great Value) sells a pack of thin mint cookies for $2 that’s every bit as good as the ones the Mini Marxists sell.
Their cookies are not worth the price. Another good sub are the thin mint cookies at Family Dollar.
There is a reason my granddaughters are in Heritage Girls instead of Girl Scouts.
As least you aren’t giving $4.23 to the bad guys.
Indian Guides and Indian Princesses. Dads weekends with their sons and daughters.
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I was involved in this program with two of my kids. It was “run” by the local YMCA which was absolutely the worst part of the program. Our group of Dads basically hoisted the middle finger to the YMCA program guard rails. We camped with our kids and had our weekly get-togethers and had a great time DESPITE the YMCA busy bodies and their rules and regulations.
So very sad...GS was a major saving organization in my life..in the late 50s to late 60s, I was a member for 11 years. This reflects the demise of our total society/culture iver the past 50+ years. It is like a snowball running downhill now.
Oh well. I did like those cookies.
Blue Bell Ice Cream
We need to figure out how, legally, we can have a temorary federal takeover of the girl scounts, followed by a selection of new board of directors and new bylaws that prevent politicization of the Girl Scouts again, followed by return to civilian control.
Parents, keep your girls out of the Girl Scouts.
Look up the states of genocide. We are in level 3 or 4 now.
Might as well rebrand as the Young Pioneers. I’m sure there’s some dated Soviet guidebooks on the program. /s
Slay News or whatever incompetent reporting retinue backs it, is pretty slow.
https://freerepublic.com/tag/girlscouts/index?tab=articles
The Girl Scouts have been running hard statist and anti-individual for a LONG time.
Maybe Slay just got their talking points from Soros to get clicks.
Prediction:
Within years—Girl Scouts & their cookies will no longer exist.
How many cookie factory workers will that impact??????
“...a transgender would be given advantages, such as securing a college scholarship or being offered a job, over a normal person....”
There is no such thing as a “trans” as one cannot change their sex, instead these sexually perverted types belong in a mental institution rather than college especially in cases where tax dollars are used.
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