Stolen Youth Quotes

“The woke see children as child soldiers in their cultural revolutions, isolating them from their parents and radicalizing them.”
― Bethany Mandel, Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation

“our duty to our children is to raise them into capable adults. It’s our responsibility to teach them about living in the world without stripping them of their innocence.”
― Bethany Mandel, Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation

“basically”
― Bethany Mandel, Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation

“From social media trends and influences to celebrities to mental-health professionals, the message is clear: everything wrong in the world is the fault of racism or some other strain of bigotry.”
― Bethany Mandel, Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation

“Would you rather have a doctor who spent three hours a week on politics, or three hours a week on actual medicine?”
― Bethany Mandel, Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation

“In March of 2021, Brett Blomme, a Milwaukee judge and former president of an LGBTQ organization that sponsored Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH) events, was arrested on child pornography charges.47 In 2019, the Houston Public Library was forced to apologize “after a man charged for sexually assaulting a child was allowed to entertain children at Drag Queen storytime.”
― Bethany Mandel, Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation

“There are a number of resources in the homeschooling community (lists from AmblesideOnline, Read-Aloud Revival, or The Good and the Beautiful) or from literacy experts in books like Read-Aloud Revival or The Enchanted Hour.”
― Bethany Mandel, Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation

“Given that a great deal of the shift in kids’ literature is driven by publicly funded institutions like schools and libraries, one librarian suggested, “Patrons need to use the online purchase suggestion forms that most libraries have and start asking for titles!”
― Bethany Mandel, Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation

“Parents should demand to see the curriculum, attend class as an observer, and ask their state legislators to pass mandatory curriculum transparency legislation, which requires school districts to post all teaching materials online for parents to review. And trust your instincts:”
― Bethany Mandel, Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation

“When parents heard indoctrination during the kids’ Zoom classes, they’d heard it before. They knew it from work, from endless human-resources antiracism and gender-bias sessions. They didn’t know the kids were getting it too, and didn’t like it.”
― Bethany Mandel, Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation

“A mom in Staten Island, a fairly conservative part of New York City, told me her second grader’s class read a book about whether an avocado is a fruit or a vegetable and told the kids they can be anything they want to be as well. While in the past this kind of conversation may lead to a child imagining themselves as an astronaut or a firefighter, in our current era, this led directly to what gender the child identifies with and how he or she wishes to be perceived by the class. Thus, a seven-year-old is being conditioned to the idea that his or her birth gender might be temporary and can be switched up at any time.”
― Bethany Mandel, Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation

“Kaplan “was further surprised to discover that a list of 154 influential people of color did not include Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis, or Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, though it included many violent revolutionaries. There was even a flattering description of Pol Pot, the communist leader of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge, who was responsible for the murder of a quarter of the Cambodian population during the 1970s.”
― Bethany Mandel, Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation

“Lui started a nonprofit organization called Unify Carmel, which was among the first groups in the country to bring up to their school boards that shockingly explicit books were in their school libraries. After discovering the books, Lui says, “We read the sexually explicit and gender-propaganda books during open comments at a school board meeting.”
― Bethany Mandel, Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation

“Once parents became concerned about CRT in the classroom, the idea that parents should get involved in their kids’ education was seen as a “right-wing” idea.”
― Bethany Mandel, Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation

“Wokeness shuns patriotism, teaching that our American experiment is not worth celebrating, that only our individual races and past cultures matter.”
― Bethany Mandel, Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation

“There is only one correct answer to any given question. Any stepping outside the lines, any questioning of official positions, gets you kicked off the team. Curiosity is discouraged. It is leftism on steroids, and it is taking over everything.”
― Bethany Mandel, Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation

“Some were afraid for their jobs, that someone would call their boss and inform on them for supporting something that was the standard in other countries around the world, but many others were simply afraid of reputational damage.”
― Bethany Mandel, Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation