in keeping with most religious groups, the clerics of Critical Social Justice have made the indoctrination of the young a priority. Children who had once been taught that treating people differently on the basis of skin colour was morally wrong are now being encouraged to see everything through the prism of race. The skewed rationale of Critical Race Theory has left us in a position whereby a mixed-race child could be encouraged to perceive one parent as the oppressor and the other as the oppressed. ‘O that I could steal all the daughters from their mothers and lock them in a monastery’, wrote
in keeping with most religious groups, the clerics of Critical Social Justice have made the indoctrination of the young a priority. Children who had once been taught that treating people differently on the basis of skin colour was morally wrong are now being encouraged to see everything through the prism of race. The skewed rationale of Critical Race Theory has left us in a position whereby a mixed-race child could be encouraged to perceive one parent as the oppressor and the other as the oppressed. ‘O that I could steal all the daughters from their mothers and lock them in a monastery’, wrote Sister Serafina of Capri (1621–99) to her confessor. From a strategic point of view, it makes complete sense to indoctrinate children at an early age. As I have argued, the very notion of critical thinking and reasoned debate is anathema to the new puritans, because, once examined, their ideas quickly deteriorate. But Arthur Schopenhauer was almost certainly right when he wrote that ‘there is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five’. This accounts for the sudden proliferation of ‘woke’ children’s books, presumably intended to produce a whole new generation of activists. Who Are You? The Kid’s Guide To Gender Identity (2016) by Brook Pessin-Whedbee, aimed at three year olds and over, takes readers through the multiplicity of fashionable new identities such as ‘genderqueer, non-binary, bigende...
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