As a young child I was often asked by kind, curious neighbors and relatives what I wanted to be when I grew up. Of course, I had no idea other than an “adult.”
But those kinds of questions certainly put the pressure on me, unbeknownst to the inquirers. For the record, as of today, I still have no idea what I want to be after nearly 70-years of searching for an answer.
Being a news junkie, I regularly absorb meaningful news articles from a variety of sources, all day long. Over time you realize that most of those articles are ‘re-treads,’ much like tires for vehicles, especially semi-trucks. But I digress.
They are recycled by various “news” organizations who are all too often delighted to put their own, individual spin on the item-in-question to “make it their own.” Unfortunately, those exact reporting agencies simply repeat the original story without any editing.
That sort of reporting is called “circular reporting,” indicating the news item is nothing new, merely recycled. I’d like to think the reporters are lazy, but the older I get, the more cynical I become.
Under communism, there is favorite saying: a lie repeated often enough becomes the truth.
And knowing how these sensational stories evolve into fantastical tales of virtual un-belief, I find it difficult to imagine all of today’s circular reporting is the result of sloth. I’m going with something more nefarious.
Take something newly created, apparently out of whole cloth.
For generations, Americans have been striving through churches, schools, workplaces, societal meeting situations, sports, music, television, and compendium of other venues, to erase – once and for all – the ugly monster called discrimination.
Discrimination can be found in any number of places, directed toward any number of ‘victims.’ Sexism, ageism, racism, are a few, as are associated phobias, to include homophobia, xenophobia, and hoplophobia, quite often mixed together for effect.
People will be people as they are all individuals. And because there are so, so many variants that divide our populace, combined with lightning-fast, world-wide social media, there are more victims appearing nearly daily to argue for inclusion, fairness, or equity.
However, life isn’t really complicated, we just make it complicated. Let me explain.
Back in paragraphs one and two, I gave you enough information to witness a personal conundrum. Although monumental to me, nearly everyone faces those same challenges.
Families occasionally dictated possible career paths for their offspring. If dad was a firefighter, perhaps his child would be a firefighter, too. If mom was a doctor, she might become a role model for her progeny.
And so went our familial nation with kids following in their parent’s footsteps for any number of reasons. Respect, pride, intense interest, sense of belonging, and obligation, could be deciding factors in producing future successes.
But recently, I’ve been hearing more and more jabber about disruption than unity when it comes to youngsters finding future aspirations and endeavors.
It seems as though this past
COVID-19 school year wasn’t disruptive enough, with children engaged in
distance-learning or home schooling. Our
anointed school administrators have been covertly teaching
CRT is a method by which the ever-fluid “people-of-color (POC)” resurrect some rusty axe to grind against society-in-general. It is a way to shame innocent white kids into guilt about something that ended 150-years ago: slavery.
Apparently this propaganda has been taught in high school and on the college and university levels for years. And this destructive, phony lesson about a lie called “systemic racism,” has been ruining families ever since its inception.
Unfortunately, since it was introduced during their formative years in early education, kids have been soaking up this tripe as gospel, largely because of its origin – teachers.
Growing up I was instructed to ‘trust teachers and heed their orders.’ And I did.
Had I been subjected to this type of false indoctrination of self-guilt, white guilt, or black lives mattering over everyone else’s, I, too, might be a programmed zombie.
There is a positive, unintended consequence to the COVID-19 lockdown. It seems as though parents, who stayed home to house sit with their children while the kiddies Zoomed their school lessons, inadvertently discovered this brainwashing curriculum was being forced into those little mushy kid brains.
Suddenly school board meetings were inundated with angry parents, television news was deflecting the negative aspects of this as “misinformation,” and public denials descended like a fog in this already cloudy world.
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| A very dangerous parent against CRT arrested at a school board meeting |
Fast forward through countless arrests at school board meetings, and parents fired by their employers for taking a stand against creating racial animosity among 5 to 12-year olds in a racially healing nation.
Now we have those same teachers and administrators insisting they teach those same confused, innocent first-, second-, and third-graders that they may not be the sex their parents told them they were. In other words, their parents lied to them.
Children are gullible because they have no developed reasoning abilities. That naïveté makes these ‘learners’ especially susceptible to all sorts of lies and disinformation that is introduced to them as fact.
Changing one’s sex, according to current White House “experts” is not related to “following the science,” as we were instructed to do about COVID; it is an opinion that is ever-changing, and subject to interpretation and/or individual feelings.
Men can become pregnant and have an abortion, according to a Democrat witness recently testifying before the House Judiciary Committee on abortion rights, Aimee Arrambide. Oh, my.
And on that note, I believe that I want to be a white, non-racist, heterosexual man when I grow up.
