The Patriot Post® · In Brief: Conservatives Are Brainwashing Children?
One of the hottest topics in America today is the Left’s indoctrination of public school children or innocent kids watching Disney cartoons. CNN is on the case … with an opinion piece by Nicole Hemmer titled, “The right-wing children’s entertainment complex is upon us.”
And she’s serious. Mark Tapson takes her to task for it.
Hemmer, an associate research scholar at Columbia University with the Obama Presidency Oral History Project and the author of Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics, paints such efforts as paranoid, cynical, exploitative, insular, and bigoted, while pretending the culture war being waged on impressionable young minds by the left is nothing more than a right-wing fantasy.
The essay is couched in phrasing which suggests that conservatives are “hand-wringing” about nothing (“conservatives claim”; “what the right sees as liberal indoctrination”; “supposed liberal indoctrination,” etc.). She never acknowledges that parents have legitimate concerns about identity politics being inculcated in schoolrooms and through children’s entertainment programming. Instead, she implies that the rise of conservative alternatives to such cultural Marxism stems from paranoia and greed.
Hammer supposedly nefarious examples include the Tuttle Twins children’s books that teach about “free society” and “family values,” and the Heroes of Liberty series of “biographies of conservative icons like Margaret Thatcher.” Even worse are children’s books written by the late, great Rush Limbaugh, or what she derides as “an array of anti-trans books” — you know, books that teach biological truth, not identity fiction.
And — gasp — they’re making a profit.
Hemmer points to the growing success of this trend as evidence that “many on the right know that it’s not just good for their politics, but their pocketbooks, too.” Nowhere does Hemmer mention that the authors profiting most handsomely from the political indoctrination of children are on the left, such as mega-bestselling race hustler Ibram X. Kendi, author of Anti-Racist Baby, which teaches your baby to be racist. Kendi (whose real name is the much less-exotic Ibram Henry Rogers) rakes in at least $25,000 per speaking engagement to tell white audiences they are racist, especially if they think they aren’t racist.
Hemmer doesn’t address the obvious point that the reason such alternatives are finding success is because there is a massive, under-served audience among parents and children for alternatives to the Left’s divisive indoctrination.
Instead, she complains about conservative “attacks” on schools, and complains about how conservatives are building “a parallel media economy.”
Hemmer fails to note that conservatives have to resort to creating their own economic network in order to thrive financially because their channels on platforms such as YouTube are demonetized by woke totalitarians.
Tapson concludes with a zinger:
Nicole Hemmer’s CNN piece concludes that “we can expect to see more fights over schools and cartoons and board books for toddlers and more invocations of ‘brainwashing’ and ‘grooming’ as well.” She is correct about that as well. Because while we build that thriving, parallel culture, there will be more fights over the Left’s agenda to sexually and ideologically indoctrinate our children. Conservatives have finally had enough. To paraphrase Network’s Howard Beale, we’re mad as hell and we’re not going to take this anymore.