Kendall Stanley: Runaway insanity

So the state of Texas wants parents to have more control over how their children are taught in school. Got a complaint, especially about anything that might have to do with sexuality or race? Give us a call, we’ll take care of it.

The state is not unique among states that are making sure Little Johnny or Susie will not encounter anything that might make them uncomfortable. If that sounds like a milquetoast education, so be it.

But in Texas, dear parents, you have to watch out not only for rogue school districts trying to indoctrinate your student, but if they are transgender or non-binary, watch out for Gov. Greg Abbott.

You see the good governor is all about your privacy and parental responsibility for your child’s education, but if you are working with a doctor on transgender issues and drugs like puberty blockers for your child, well old Greg wants you to know that’s child abuse and the state will come looking for you.

Hypocritical? Oh yea.

Abbott wants to protect the children with that action, never mind he believes parents know best in other arenas. Just not in transgender issues.

Imagine if you will that you are a parent of an 11-year-old who identifies as transgender. As a parent you do your best by consulting doctors about your next moves, which ends up including puberty blockers, halting the process until your child gets older and can make a more informed decisions about what comes next.

And in all of that you also have to worry if social services, at the behest of the governor, comes knocking on your door.

Apparently, parents know best, until they don’t.

Replace that!

Please, can we replace Tucker Carlson with someone else, anyone else?

Of course, Carlson will tell you you can’t say replacement, otherwise the whiny left and internet platforms will get all their undies in a bunch.

I speak of The Great Replacement, a racist idea that the Democrats, Jews, George Soros and other elites are out to, wait for it, replace the white race to remain in political power forever!

Let the immigrants in from the border, line them up to vote for Democrats, see what kind of country you’ll have then!

As one can imagine, white supremacists and nationalists are all in on the great replacement theory. Remember Charlottesville? The white supremacists there were chanting “Jews will never replace us!” And then became Trump’s “good people on both sides.”

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When you hear the term classic Americans or legacy Americans, you’re hearing the voice of great replacement defenders, because they are talking about WHITE ONLY Americans.

One wonders how the proponents of the theory figure it will actually work. If, as some claim, the Democrats could manage to legalize all 11 million who have entered the country illegally so they can vote, do they really mean 6 and 10 year olds would be headed to the polls?

We need more white people, so no abortions! Stay home and raise more kids.

The shooter in Buffalo, who shall go nameless here, wrote a 180-page outline of his views including the great replacement.

It’s ironic that he decided he needed to shoot Black Americans as they are the one demographic with the lowest population gains. Latino and Asian populations are growing at a much faster pace.

Sooner or later in the United States whites will be a numerical minority in the country.

Six states are majority-minority as of July 2019: Hawaii (the only state that has never had a white majority), New Mexico, California, Texas, Nevada, and Maryland.

Hmmm, seems you don’t have to have a majority of “legacy Americans” to have a functioning state.

Fear not the immigrant, fear instead the ignorant.

— Kendall P. Stanley is retired editor of the News-Review. He can be contacted at kendallstanley@charter.net. The opinions expressed in this column are those of the writer and not necessarily of the Petoskey News-Review or its employees. 

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