Democrats' 'Don't Say Gay' Gaslighting
Is Driving the Middle Class to Republicans
| Opinion
Newsweek,
by
Adam B. Coleman
Original Article
Posted By: voxpopuli,
4/9/2022 9:17:57 AM
At the peak of the Critical Race Theory controversy in June of 2021, I was invited to Waukesha, Wisconsin to give a speech in front of a crowd of what was supposed to be a few hundred people about my thoughts on race and CRT in schools. 600 people showed up— (snip) This wasn't a Trump rally filled with politically active people; on the contrary, it was a crowd of concerned parents who wanted to learn. (snip) These are normal, middle class parents with reasonable concerns. But to hear the liberal media tell it, upset parents showing up to school districts around the country were simply racists
Disgruntled parents are now "woke" to the mess they helped create by blowing off "non-partisan" school board elections. I'd bet most adults cannot name three members of their local school boards and what they stand for. Yet, parents get all misty-eyed and intense about their children's education. It's not just the nice teacher, er, educator in the classroom. The curriculum taught is largely directed by these local elected officials, school administrators and state authorities. And you can bet all of them are graduates of the AFT School of Political Activism. These people are eating your lunch while your kid learns about genitalia and racism, i.e. "white privilege" and the plundering of America by Euro-savages.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
janjan 4/9/2022 9:54:30 AM (No. 1123828)
Democrats are stepping in it big time by actually trying to defend the sexualization of 5 year olds and demonizing parents who are fighting back. They may soon realize that pandering to the teacher’s unions is not a good way to win elections. Like all liberals they finally went too far and the country has caught on.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
mifla 4/9/2022 10:07:22 AM (No. 1123839)
Dems always think they are the smartest people in the room.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 4/9/2022 10:08:10 AM (No. 1123841)
Decades ago, radical feminism took on men and masculinity, asserting their superior independence, thus relieving those men from traditional responsibilities. Then public schools joined in waging war on increasingly fatherless little boys in favor of all things girls. Now radical Leftism takes on all genders to create an ethereal zoo of mystical creatures, often at the encouragement of certain parents and most certainly of the duly elected school boards. And they ARE creating them! Young minds are so impressionable - the younger, the better. So easy to control when we all live in Neverland.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 4/9/2022 10:27:54 AM (No. 1123865)
I'm sorry, I don't know what all the fuss is about. All Governor DeSantis has to reply is 'you're right, it don't say gay.'
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
planetgeo 4/9/2022 10:28:54 AM (No. 1123866)
Speaking of Neverland, Democrats truly are the Neverland Party. Perpetual juveniles with magical thinking on just about everything. Not to mention unending obsession and confusion about their peepees.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Rich323 4/9/2022 10:47:15 AM (No. 1123881)
American Thinker has an article today about Disney’s demographics. Millennials and adults who have never grown up aka Peter Pan Syndrome. They definitely pooped and then stepped in it!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
red1066 4/9/2022 11:22:50 AM (No. 1123917)
Middle class Americans should have been Republicans from the start. Only the extremely stupid middle class still votes demoslut.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Krause 4/9/2022 11:35:03 AM (No. 1123932)
Don't say gay is correct. The bill doesn't say gay.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/9/2022 11:44:41 AM (No. 1123943)
The "driving" is being done by much more than attempted grooming of small children toward the monstrous practice of pedophilia but I fear that the republicans will have no idea how to handle sudden popularity once and if they get it. My mailbox is full of GOP lamentation that they are not collecting enough campaign donations and are in danger of losing if the democrats haul in more money. That kind of thinking is what promotes losers like Obama and Biden.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
columba 4/9/2022 11:49:57 AM (No. 1123948)
The Homosexual Lobby has been telling us the fairy tale that perverted sexual behavior is clean, nice and normal. Mostly we have been tolerant. and that is ending.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 4/9/2022 11:51:39 AM (No. 1123951)
Gay? You mean, Marvin?
How about, "Don't say nuthin' to MY kid 'bout sex!"
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
TJ54 4/9/2022 12:02:57 PM (No. 1123965)
I am surprised this writer is still employed by Newsweak
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 4/9/2022 2:55:09 PM (No. 1124063)
Let's hope that his headline is correct. And then let's further hope that we can push out the RINOs and get some Repubs with convictions and A BACKBONE to actually change things.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 4/10/2022 6:21:29 AM (No. 1124372)
The dems are used to dealing with issues that are more remote to the voters, like Russian hoaxes, and political lies. THIS issue is personal and it is about the voters' kids, making it a BIG deal. The dems are trying to deal with it with their typical propaganda and lies. That works when the voters don't get the issues to begin with but in this case the voters can clearly see the dem lies and dismissiveness. Further, the voters' understanding of the dems makes them question the dem stances on other issues as well. The dems are creating a block of people that are now questioning EVERYTHING they hear from the dems and that is extremely dangerous for the dems now and in the future because dem lies are easy to spot if you are looking for them.
In the 2020 election I despaired that so many people could support an idiot like Biden. They were blinded by their own ignorance. THIS issue is ripping their blindfolds off, broadly and perhaps permanently.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Rinktum 4/10/2022 7:06:13 AM (No. 1124381)
#6, Thanks for the great comments and laugh! I needed that this morning. Your insight into the democrat party is right on point. They are perpetual juveniles. They also have a terrible trait of believing everyone thinks just like they do, or at least should.
Thankfully, parents, grandparents and anyone paying attention know human sexuality is a subject that belongs to parents. It is a part of a family’s value system, not a school curriculum. I personally believe all sex education should wait until at least sixth grade. Then it should be strictly the biological aspects not social constructs that are being dragged into the classroom. Keep the various methods of sexual attraction out of the classroom.
Back in the day, in high school physiology, we had sex, reproduction and biology in the first semester to “get it out of the way” per the teacher and we learned everything about the subject and not once did we venture off the path of heterosexual sex. We received a comprehensive overview given by a professional educator with no axe to grind which is the way it should be. It was one of my favorite classes taught by a bright, witty, creative top notch educator.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/10/2022 8:37:50 AM (No. 1124456)
Most people don't pay much attention to their local school boards because those people are there for one purpose, to rubber-stamp everything that comes down from the teachers' unions because they control both teaching and administration and are granted that power because they give a piece of each teacher's salary to the democrat party. If you want to influence the school board you must aim a little higher at the pseudo-intellectuals who decide what is best for the entire state. Grants going to school systems rarely improve education but if you want a new million-dollar pool or Astro-Turf on your rocky football field, they are your benefactors.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 4/10/2022 8:43:47 AM (No. 1124464)
Not bad for a one-dollar magazine like Newsweek to opine in this manner. Assuming the story is accurate, political suicide at its best, right, dims?
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These people who are pushing transgender sterilization surgeries on children are beyond the pale. This is such a disgusting twisted thing to do to a child I cannot find the words to express how depraved this truly is. And we should all wonder about people who find it acceptable to talk to another person's young children about sex. How does it benefit a child to make them comfortable to talk to strangers about sex? This has got to be stopped now.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
pensom2 4/10/2022 9:49:25 AM (No. 1124535)
All these LGBQT+ movements, in education and elsewhere, are being driven by the gay and transsexual threat that they will become depressed and will commit suicide if they don't get their way. And some of that threat is a genuine reality.
Many of us have had brief periods in life, particularly in teenage and young adult years, when we thought about suicide. I believe they like to call this "suicidal ideation." Individuals who commit suicide are typically suffering from depression, a common form of mental illness. It is usually transitory, arising from hormonal imbalances or intense frustration that the world isn't going to give us everything that we dream it should give us. Commonly, we want the world to give us social acceptance, popularity, and a loving companion. When we don't get it from society or from our mate, we can dwell on our frustrations to the point where we lock ourselves into intense dissatisfaction and perpetual negative thinking.
When this occurs, most folks get tough with themselves, get a prescription for some kind of anti-depressant, sometimes with a little counseling. We learn to accept imperfections in ourselves and others, take whatever action seems appropriate to swim out of our black hole of immobile frustration, then get over it. To our surprise, the fog of oppressive negativity and depression begins to lift, and we soldier on, returning to the sunlight of coping reality. We rediscover smiling, laughing, even happiness.
As a social construct, society and families try to help the individual to become more mentally healthy and learn to become useful members of healthy society. But recently, society assumes that many of these temporarily mentally depressed individuals are "snowflakes" who must be accommodated by helping them "transition" to another sexual identity. If the sufferer buys off on this notion, teachers, parents, society, and even government, stand ready to provide hormonal treatments and encourage them to remain in their confused state and force society to bend and cater to this accommodation, even to the point of inventing multiple confused "genders" and "pronouns," encouraging experimentation with homosexual "love," and permitting males to compete against females in female sports.
In a great many cases, these "transitioning" individuals remain mentally confused and depressed despite transitioning, though now their confusion is compounded because they are coping with acting as a person of a contrary sex. Surprised that they are still profoundly unhappy, many revert to their previous gender and are angered at the schools, parents, and others who recommended this transition that failed to remedy their problem.
I don't know whether this has become so prevalent today due to society, to increasing ingestions of hormone residues in treated drinking water and chemically-treated packaged foods, or other causes. But these confused individuals need to be helped to accept the realities of life. We are not helping them by treating them like snowflakes devoid of coping skills who can manipulate and degrade society with their suicidal threats.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
starboard 4/10/2022 10:09:04 AM (No. 1124560)
This indocrination started under the Obama Admin. Remember how the left went insane over Trumps Sec of Ed, Betsy De Vos.They were afraid of her. Well they better get afraid of the mother of America, because they are finally coming after them.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 4/10/2022 10:16:09 AM (No. 1124573)
It should be responded to as 'didn't say gay' the left did. Targeting a group of five-to-eight-year olds for teaching sexuality to be aware of the genitalia when this group is still focused on eating their school glue and boogers with no mind on sex. The left is truly a sick crowd.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
PrayerWarrior 4/10/2022 10:50:37 AM (No. 1124627)
The so called "don't say gay" bill is now called by Moms and Dads the "ANTI-GROOMING" bill in Florida. Have you noticed when we speak honestly, the media starts screaming conspiracy! Calling this bill "anti-grooming" is driving the Left crazy because it's true! It's probably a short drive off a cliff anyway.
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Don't be blaming this on the parents. Parents got a real eyeful of what is going on finally, all thanks to those teachers loving the online teaching during the lockdown. Teachers have always been very careful to hide what they teach our kids, and we finally got a good idea of why this past year, nearly two.
Now that parents know what is going on, they are trying to do something about it. But the media is protecting these purveyors of filth in our classrooms, lying about the parents as best they can. I have been saying for a long time, parents need to band together and create some kind of home schooling system in this nation. I think it would take one year of schooling at home to wake these teachers up. Since those kids would no longer be in class, the Fed dollars would dry up fast as well.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
MickTurn 4/10/2022 12:30:25 PM (No. 1124736)
Note to all Gays and Trannies...YOU ARE NOT SPECIAL, GET OVER YOURSELVES!
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Charlie Kirk had a great point the other day - first, they wanted "civil unions" made legal as their first round. Ok, fine. Enough. No...then, they wanted legal marriage - so they could feel "normal" - and mainstream thought was, fine, you got it. NOW, enough. Don't want to talk about it anymore. Done. Subject closed. But then, the REAL goal came out - no pun intended. Grooming your children to become or identify as gay or lesbian or WHATEVER other term, and at a very young age. The gay men's chorus in SF has an entire song written about how they want to take your children away and make them gay! He played a clip. It is beyond sick. Our world is beyond sick. Pedophilia being normalized at the university level - the teacher in Boston who was finally fired - it just keeps getting worse.
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The Democrats are acting is if after 2020 they don’t have to worry about elections anymore they can produce 81 million votes out of the ether.
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