Re: Drag show for kids proves left will risk harming children for politics

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Protests erupted over the weekend as a gay bar in Texas hosted a 
"Drag Your Kids to Pride" event, at which, among other things, 
kids tipped dancers in drag with dollars bills, mimicking the 
common strip club practice. Defenders of the youth themed show 
call it harmless fun, but it raises serious questions about 
whether children need to be protected from this overtly sexual 
entertainment. Put simply, do we have, as a society, a 
responsibility to protect the innocence of children?

The notion that childhood should be a time of innocence is a 
relative newcomer to our culture. Eighteenth Century French 
writer Jean-Jacques Rousseau is generally considered the father 
of this movement which held that children enter the world 
blameless and should be protected from negative influences until 
they develop into fully reasonable adults.

Among the upshots of this change were laws barring child labor 
and providing universal education. But today, the American left 
is abandoning this principle. Does it still believe that 
childhood should be a time of innocence?

Recently, an article in Fatherly argued that we should bring our 
young children to Gay Pride events even though they may well be 
exposed to public nudity and kink. It’s the kind of commonplace 
thing said today that not very long ago would have sounded 
completely insane. The message is a clear one, the risk of 
harming a child with inappropriate images is worth ensuring they 
wind up with the right politics.

Now, nobody thinks that progressives today would put 12-year-
olds back in coal mines, but we know that they are very willing 
to place them on the barricades of their political and culture 
wars, both literally at Pride events and figuratively by making 
little, tiny activists out of them at school. That, in and of 
itself, is a radical departure from the idea that childhood 
should be a protected time of innocence.

And of course, it isn’t just Pride parades, it’s gender ideology 
in K-3 education, it’s critical race theory making young kids 
feel they are marked with original sin or victimhood, it's even 
the quick and easy access to pornography that we as a society 
have just somehow accepted.

The latter point is worth sharpening, if in 1995 thousands of 
video stores were handing out free hardcore porn to kids there 
would have been immediate arrests made. But now, we basically 
have the equivalent in the palms of our children's hands and 
have more or less decided there’s nothing we can do about it.

COVID-19 provided yet another example of the chipping away of 
childhood innocence. How many times were we forced to hear that 
kids in pointless and frustrating Zoom classes or forced to mask 
up were, "tougher than you think." Well, it turns out they 
aren’t tougher than we thought, as study after study is showing 
us the deep harm done to children during the lockdowns. In fact, 
they aren’t very tough at all which is why adults are supposed 
to protect them.

Much of the frustration from parents these days, which has 
bubbled up in angry school board meetings and chalked up 
Republican electoral wins, is about kids being exposed to things 
they are not ready for. No third grader needs to make a lifetime 
decision that men can become women, or that the United States is 
steeped in racism. Unless, of course, progressives do not 
believe that their positions stand up to scrutiny and must be 
imbibed by the young and impressionable.

Rousseau wrote that "Childhood has its own way of seeing, 
thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try 
to substitute ours for theirs." And yet that is exactly what so 
many well-intentioned adults are doing to our kids.

No, there really isn’t any good reason to bring young children 
to Pride events or drag shows, to force our libertine relativism 
on them before they can even understand what it is. In fact, it 
is a grave disservice to youth who need time inside their own 
imagination and understanding of the world before its 
ideological battles sweep them up.

Let the kids be kids, there will be time to sell them on hot 
takes and worldviews when they are older, when they can process 
it. Let's not busy ourselves determining what they can 
withstand. Rather, let’s protect their innocence, as we have for 
centuries, and leave childhood the domain of the child.

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