You can’t make up stuff as weird as this. In Colorado, a 7-year-old boy named Bobby who thinks he’s a girl wanted to joined the Girl Scouts and was initially rejected. But then the Girl Scout council changed its mind and declared, “If a child identifies as a girl and the child’s family presents her as a girl, Girl Scouts of Colorado welcomes her as a Girl Scout.”
As might be expected, some people were upset by this decision. What parent wants to try to explain something this bizarre to their 7-year-old daughter? But the ordinary concerns of ordinary parents mean nothing to a fanatical ideologue like Amanda Marcotte, who uses the phrase “Christian right” three times in the course of a 571-word article depicting little Bobby the Trans-Girl Scout as the victim of a a dangerously radical religious/political menace.
The genuinely troubling thing about this is not merely that, to the liberal intelligentsia, transgendered 7-year-olds are entirely acceptable and praiseworth, a phenomenon about which no one dare raise a skeptical eyebrow, lest they be accused of “hate.” No, what is truly disturbing is the intelligentsia’s belief that there is something wrong with parents who think that Girl Scouts should be for, y’know, girls.
Attitudes that are altogether common and understandable — such as parents’ desire to provide their children a normal, wholesome childhood environment — are re-imagined by the liberal intelligentsia as hateful bigotry, which must be explained by reference to some sort of reactionary political impulse. And thus the majority of Americans are cast as hopelessly prejudiced, prone to manipulation by shadowy right-wingers, and therefore in need of enlightenment by their moral and intellectual superiors because … Progress!
Let any literate person endeavor to point out the nonsensical nature of stuff like this, of course, and you’re instantly classified as one of those shadowy right-wingers. The intelligentsia cannot stand to see anyone give articulation to the ordinary sentiments of those decent non-intellectual Americans who oppose such strange notions of Progress.
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