Spiked: America’s parents are revolting against indoctrination

[Abitofalark]

Joanna Williams article:
www.spiked-online.com/2022/10/31/americas-parents-are-revolting/
"They are fed up with schools indoctrinating their children. And now they’re fighting back."
Extracts:
" Parents opposed to woke indoctrination in schools are organising. They may even prove to be a decisive force in the elections. Parents Unite, set up by New England mothers Ashley Jacobs and Jean Egan, is one of many groups to have emerged in the past couple of years. It brings together parents, teachers and academics concerned with what children are being taught in America’s independent schools."

[ Outlines the background impetus of Black Lives Matter]
"A similar story emerges in relation to teaching about sex and gender. Parents are unhappy at the prospect of sending their daughter to school, only for her to return home questioning whether she might actually be a boy. In addition, there is concern that sex education introduces children to provocative and hyper-sexualised content at far too young an age."

"Yet parents who complain about the politicisation of their schools report being met with hostility. Some even suggest their children are targeted by teachers for raising ‘inappropriate’ questions. Parents who ask about the role of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) officers say they are treated as a threat to the safety of students."

I've posted this on another thread, but these parents are being tied in with Q-Anon types by the left wing media, including our very own BBC.

There was a trailer this morning for BBC Radio 4's new series of The Coming Storm, starting on Sunday at 1.30pm. It's is all about how the issue of sex education has become the talking point for republicans for these midterms. I'll be bracing myself for the typical BBC biased, leftist and patronising to ordinary people slant on it, after reading this blurb on the programme off the BBC website:

As America goes out to vote for the first time since the tumultuous aftermath of the 2020 election, Gabriel Gatehouse is back in the deep undergrowth of the US political scene, in a bid to understand where the dark energy underpinning the January 6 assault on the Capitol is going now.

One thing the QAnon conspiracy theory about a satanic cabal of paedophiles is morphing into is a grassroots political movement against ‘groomers’ – the idea that LGBTQI+ sex educators and trans healthcare advocates are indoctrinating young people into a sexualised culture.

The battleground is America’s school boards and the prize could be a galvanised Republican base with a new crusade. At a conference in Miami of thinkers shaping the future ideas of the right, Gabriel finds the issue top of the agenda, especially for Florida governor and presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis.

And across the country, a slate of candidates linked to QAnon is running for office – how will they fare?

There may or may not be truth in the extreme right wing seizing on the concerns of ordinary, middle of the road parents who are concerned about what their children are learning and taking school boards to task on it. The moderate left won't listen to these parents, or are too scared to go against the so called "progressives", so who else will they turn to? The right has increasingly seen this as a vote winner: Matt Walsh documentary caused quite the stir, and the lunatic response by the likes of Jon Stewart and the rest of liberal media has done nothing to convince the unregistered swing voters that the left has the best interests of their children at heart - it just wants to browbeat down dissent by flinging around the "bigot" insult, a tactic which is becoming less and less effective.

Interestingly, I believe Candace Owens' new documentary on BLM claims that money raised by that movement has been diverted into trans activism.

The left needs to ditch CRT and QT ASAP, not least as one could easily argue that both are more right wing ideologies than they are left wing.

I am increasingly coming to the view that we need to the left to remember (or learn) that basically -

Right wing ideas - relatively conservative when it comes to women and gay rights. Pro a relatively small state, relatively free markets, relatively high levels of economic inequality.

Left wing ideas - relatively progressive when it comes to women and gay rights.
Pro a relatively large state, managed free markets, relatively low levels of economic inequality.

Neither left or right wing, merely extremist ideas - forced speech, anti-democratic tendencies, pro-sterilisation and mutilation of children, reality denial, faith based approach to decision making, anti-semitism, racism, pro critical race theory, pro BLM, pro queer theory, pro trans rights (actually privieges).

The BBC is obsessed with American politics - the party politics of it more than the substance of the issues. There is a big push on at the moment, including on Woman's Hour where Nancy Pelosi, Donald Trump, Republican and Democrat women, mid term elections are all featured but gender identity is, per usual, off the menu.