Mad Dog just got an urgent email from the head of the local Democratic Party club exhorting him to show up at Winnacunnet High School to support a group called "Seacoast Upright" which has, apparently, evinced an outraged protest from local parents concerning the "training" this group provides Winnacunnet faculty regarding LGBT students in an effort to make them feel they have a "safe space" at school, where all faculty and students are sensitive to their needs as gender conflicted students.
Some parents of straight students have organized to object to this organization from imposing its "political" views on the public schools.
From the email, it is difficult to fathom what is really going on, but Mad Dog is going to take a wild guess that some organization of concerned citizens, eager to make gay or transgender students feel welcomed and not hated at school has, over the years, been "teaching" teachers how to accomplish this task. Now, Mad Dog is betting, some parents have decided this organization is "advocating" for the "gay lifestyle" or something to that effect and the local Dems are rallying to the side of Seacoast Upright to show this is not at all political but simply an affirmation of treating all students, no matter what their sexual orientation or preferences, with respect and kidnness.
Of course, the very fact that it is the Democratic party rallying to this cause undermines the argument that this effort by Upright is apolitical.
Now, Mad Dog is all for treating everyone with respect and of not demeaning or harassing people on account of their sexual preferences, but really, what is this sensitivity training, actually? Would you not like to know exactly what teachers are being "trained" to do and say?
Does this include a demand, for example for teachers to use the "proper pronouns" for transgender or gender fluid students?
When it comes to pronouns, Mad Dog is not on board. Mad Dog firmly believes we should speak the Queen's English or American English or standard English and a singular individual should never be referred to as "they" and that in doing this the left opens itself to devastating and deserved punches from the Right as being disabled by "wokeness."
As Democrats we run a risk of splintering as a party over "cultural" issues. The Republicans have been adroit at finding issues to divide the nation, but now they have found an issue to divide their opposition: namely the extreme requirement that all of us change the way we speak English, the way we use pronouns to accommodate a tiny minority of folks who feel "unsafe" because we refuse to refer to a single person as a "they." Of course, it goes beyond that to how we feel about gender fluidity and beyond.
None of this is entirely new: During the Weimar Republic the avant garde in the Berlin cafes played with gender fluidity, transvestites, homosexuals in ways which scandalized the volk, the rural folks and Hitler and his boys jumped all over this to insist on a hypermasculine party which it tied to militarism, law and order and nationalism.
American Democrats are at risk for following the German proponents of democracy down that rabbit hole, in pursuit of tolerance in a headlong rush toward oblivion.
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