Washington Post is outraged: Republicans are taking away your parental rights!
Alyssa Rosenberg: “Tucker Carlson urging his viewers to report parents whose children wore masks outside, and Texas investigating parents who allow their transgender children to receive medical interventions.”
Surely, we cannot allow such government overreach to go on. By the way, did you hear that last year, Biden’s DOJ tried to investigate concerned parents as domestic terrorists? WaPo slept through that. And remember when the Democrat Party claimed that your children’s education is solely the government’s responsibility? WaPo dreamily nodded along. But now that somebody mentioned drag queens, WaPo is fully awake.
In response to the latest media campaign to sexualize young children, Ron DeSantis’ described the trend as “totally inappropriate,” and he sent a clear message that the state of Florida does not endorse such “entertainment” for children. But because the Governor mentioned child protective statutes, WaPo reporter Alyssa Rosenberg sounded an alarm. Ms. Rosenberg is very concerned that Ron DeSantis is “weaponizing” the government to “harass parents who see drag performances as family entertainment.”
First off, when I hear the word “weaponizing,” I usually stop listening because I know that what follows is a barrage of propaganda. Invoking that word means that the person does not have any arguments in defense of the issue at hand. They simply deem the issue not worth public attention, and they want to attack you for bringing it up. Ms. Rosenberg’s article is arguing exactly that: it’s completely trivial that people bring young children to drag shows; it is people who call them out on it who are truly evil.
Alyssa Rosenberg: “Fresh off defending parental rights in education, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has a new cause: using the power of the state to harass parents who see drag performances as family entertainment.”
As usual, Ms. Rosenberg is starting off with a deception. Ron DeSantis doesn’t have a new cause. Throughout his tenure as Governor, Ron DeSantis has always had only one cause: protecting safety and wellbeing of the children. Whether keeping schools open during Covid or giving parents control over what their kids learn at school, or protecting children from pernicious and destructive content, the goal is, and has always been, clear: protect the kids.
It wasn’t DeSantis who introduced “not so secret gay agenda” into Disney entertainment. It wasn’t DeSantis who came up with “gender identity studies” in Kindergarten. And it certainly wasn’t DeSantis who advertised drag shows in gay bars as “appropriate for all ages.” All DeSantis is doing is reacting to the daily barrage of garbage directed at children, which the media immediately spins as “exploiting yet another harmless fun for political gain.”
It is Ms. Rosenberg’s clique – the liberal media – that keeps inventing a fresh new smear every day to demonize conservatives. They told you Republicans wanted to kill your children by opening schools in 2020. They shamelessly misrepresented Florida parental rights bill. And now, they are promoting “drag shows” as a trendy and harmless extracurricular activity for your preschooler – and Republicans are “exploiting children” by telling you this is wrong!
Then, Ms. Rosenberg gets up in arms about “the stigma” and “the burden” the investigations will bring on families:
The stigma of being charged with negligence, neglect or abuse can be personally and professional annihilating, even when the allegations prove to be unfounded. Hiring a lawyer to represent a family during an investigation, or to fight an emergency order removing a child from their family home, can be hugely expensive.
What’s more, frivolous complaints could easily clog up the system, making it harder for case workers to assess genuinely dangerous situations.
Ms. Rosenberg wasn’t overly concerned about “personal and professional annihilation” of the parents who were doxed online and harassed in person for opposing CRT. She did not object to “clogging the system” when FBI investigated parents who “dared” to speak out. She did not lament how expensive hiring lawyers was for those families – because she didn’t really like them. However, Ms. Rosenberg thinks that bringing you preschooler to a drag show is kind of cool – so she’ll make sure that families that do that are not being “harassed” by negative attention.
Should CPS scrutinize parents who let 9-year-olds watch R-rated movies or Tucker Carlson? What about adults whose lax approach to their browser settings allows their children to stumble into cesspools of pornography or white supremacy? Should parents who own guns be subject to weekly checks to ensure they’re securing their weapons properly?
Ms. Rosenberg is either too dim or too disingenuous, to understand the difference between R-rated movies that feature brief nudity or news programs that might use “offensive language,” and sexually explicit content like this:
She also either mistakenly or purposely confuses accidental negligence and intentional infliction of harm. Encountering inappropriate content by accident will not hurt your child long-term. However, a parent bringing a young child to a drag show projects either a severe lack of judgment or abusive parenting practices that involve intentional and systematic exposure to inappropriate material as a parenting philosophy. Either of those is absolutely qualified as child neglect and/or endangerment.
Alyssa Rosenberg: “Those choices can be as substantial as whether to circumcise a baby or as minor as giving in and deciding that yes, fine, a 3-year-old can wear a ballerina costume to school. There aren’t objectively correct answers for the many conundrums parents face. But because decisions about parenting are so deeply felt and highly subjective, it’s easy to look at another family and interpret difference as malice, latitude as neglect or stringency as abuse.
Alyssa Rosenberg is arguing (with a straight face!) that exposing your young child to sexually suggestive content is a matter that is “highly subjective.” I guess she has not heard of the motion picture rating system, or school curriculum standards (which, to be fair, the liberals are actively trying to erase.) There are clear guidelines set by medical and educational professionals as to what is considered appropriate for a particular age. Completely disregarding that fact, Ms. Rosenberg, and other people in the media, are telling you that “there is no objectively correct answer” whether bringing your three-year-old to a gay bar or “a pride event” featuring public nudity, is right or wrong. And that is why we should, in Ms. Rosenberg’s own words, “name this vile trend for what it is: child exploitation for political gain.”
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