Time for a Strawman Burning

2 years ago
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It never fails...Someone watches a video, and reframes my argument so they can make the argument they want to make, rather than have to refute what I've said. So it was with the video about indoctrination, where someone decided to completely ignore what I was saying, and pretend I was suggesting we should not teach kids to be kind to those who are different, or that it's wrong to teach kids to accept those who are different. I never said anything so preposterous, nor would I.

But just in case you ever run into this sort of strawman (I can almost guarantee you will if you try to argue against teaching gender theory in K12), here's my response.

1st: stop putting words in my mouth I never said or even hinted at
2nd: do your homework re: what's being taught, and why (to push a worldview so children will look at everything related to gender and sexuality through a specific lens)
3rd: learn about how children develop and learn things like complex concepts (like identity, and gender)
4th: don't pretend character education is the role of the GOVERNMENT schools
5th: don't erase gender non-conforming children or describe them as "different" when they are more the norm than NOT; that was the whole POINT of teaching a generation of children who are now their PARENTS they were "Free to Be" themselves, and if William wanted a doll, it just meant William wanted a damn doll, not that he was really Billie, girl trapped in a boy's body!

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