The Culture War Is 100% Misdirection
there's something inside that big wooden horse
The premise being debated isn’t the premise being debated. The thing that you risk agreeing to isn’t the thing being proposed. Public debate is a Trojan horse, and a Trojan horse, and a Trojan horse, and a Trojan horse, and a Trojan horse. That’s the culture war: fake things on offer as misdirection.
California is having an argument about not being mean to LGBT children:
The conversation is about forced outing, about an LGBT theme: schools torturing gay children by telling their parents. It’s pure bullshit, an attempt to force a premise by hiding it. Once you accept that, for the sake of kindness, the poor gay and trans children shouldn’t be viciously “outed” to their families, you’ve swallowed a bigger premise whole without having ever debated it: schools should operate in a zone of secrecy that excludes parents.
See this with total clarity, and never forget it:
The premise sold to you on the deliberately misleading framing of LGBT children doesn’t just apply to LGBT children; it applies to children, to all of them. Children should hide what they learn from their families. Campuses are private. We should draw a veil over education, and mothers and fathers shouldn’t be allowed to pierce that veil with their evil prying eyes. Sex is a topic for school officials and children to discuss in deeply candid and explicit ways, and their private sex talk should be hidden from the people who merely give birth to children and raise them in their homes. School is intimate; family is distant. Parents are secondary in the lives of children. Campus officials have the highest authority over children, and the greatest intimacy with them. Children belong to them first. Government is good. Families are bad.
But, I mean, you have no choice but to accept that parents should be excluded from the inner lives of their own children, right? You have to agree that government is more important than family — otherwise you’re a mean bigot who tortures gay children. Why do you hate the LGBT community? Have long have you been a mean person who seethes with hatred?
The “debate” is a lie, entirely and purposefully. Once schools can keep secrets from parents to protect LGBT children, then schools keep secrets from parents. The unlimited principle is established behind a little sliver of what appeared to be special pleading.
Children: government property, or part of a family? There is no other discussion going on, here. The LGBT framing is a lie to keep you from seeing the actual proposal and the actual premises that are in play. And the only proper response to the premise that your children belong primarily to the government is profound loathing and firm refusal.
Woke culture warriors live on lies. See them clearly. The fake debate over “LGBT children” is a screen for an agenda involving all children and all of childhood. Shove that screen aside with great force.
Incrementalism has been the Left's technique on many fronts for a long time. It will never stop until people just say "no". If you can't say no to a bunch of weirdo strangers with nasal piercings and mental health problems telling you how to raise YOUR kids, while at the same time deliberately destroying the educational curriculum, and being grossly incompetent as teachers, then you get what you deserve. But your kids don't deserve that. Your kids deserve your best effort to protect them from the monsters trying to take your place, when they're not trying to engage in overt sexualization of your kids. Have you also noticed how many teachers are in the news lately for having sex with underage students? The fact that the State of California would try to do this stuff makes sense in the context of the last 4 years of totalitarian control operations being wheeled out for test firing, but not in the context of any kind of decent society. This stuff does work to destroy families. The Soviets were quite successful at splintering families and the sexual mores of the Russian people. This is not about protecting kids. It's about destroying the family and the kids.
This makes me so angry that I become uncorked and froth at the mouth. How DARE they??