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I'm in favor of requiring Scouts to demonstrate virtue signaling, so long as it is done in Morse Code.

Anyone remember the ' shrieking girl " at Yale? Or the madness at Evergreen Collage? Or the riots at Berkley? We older folks just shook our heads and said " Just wait until they graduate and move into the real world, they're in for a real shock. Then they'll grow up." Well they graduated and turns out that WE are the ones who are shocked. They haven't grown up, and the really terrifying thing is I don't think they are going to until its way to late. Some of the political leaders are obviously using the mob to further their own ends. But a mob is a dangerous thing. Ask M

Now that the BSA has fully prostrated itself before the postmodern mob, even 1 will be too many. I'm sure the guillotines are being sharpened as I type.

There are a lot of things always at work and always simmering. First and foremost, there are people who love chaos and will actively do things or goad others into doing it.. That's fun for them. Then there are always the borderline personalities and unstable ones. I blame the internet and television for setting some of them loose in shootings. They are impressionable and feel empowered and I guess that's their chance for glory. I know of no REASONABLE way to deal with that issue. Such people have always been around and always will. Media is so interconnected that its not going

Why so binary, @InquisitiveScouter ? My non-binary pronoun is simply "Majesty."

Or flags.

One of the difficulties in the past and today seems to be that upheavals and revolutions really have ill defined objectives except to upend the system and recreate a new system, often with the same results. It often ends up than anyone who represents or speaks against the new amorphous collective is suddenly an intolerable enemy of the state. Communism and Stalinism were certainly that way. when I briefly taught inner city high school, and was a substitute teacher in many public schools, I tried to show the impact of language. The Wannsee Protocols, Article 58 of the Soviet penal

No one born in the 1800s and back can meet the woke progressive standards of today's far left cultists. There's no room for nuance or imperfect people who also did many good things. It doesn't mean you don't discuss the bad things, but you don't erase people like the USSR.

Pulling down as many statues as they can lay hands on is unconscionable. I bet these people do t even know who grant is, let alone what he did. He was given a slave and then freed him. He came from an abolitionist family. Jefferson? Yeah, I understand the slavery part. Without those enlightened men operating in the turmoil of their day, these mob groups and anarchists driving them seem not to have an alternate vision of what the results would have been otherwise. I suppose we have to go back to the time when we have to buy up property to make parks that are accessible but priva

I still am flabbergasted by the anti-Catholic business. Recent scandals are one thing, but this long history of anti-catholic sentiment really boggles my mind. In the derp south I know it goes way back...a persistent source of shame among other ills in the south and I know Kennedy Their was hysterics about Kennedy being a cats paw of the Pope. I guess, just like the resurgence of anti-semitism , I have just not been aware all these decades and for the most part I’ve lived in the south. I guess I’m an example of why clusters of like minded people in the same socioeconomic strata need to get

There will always be people who will take advantage of crowds and chaos to further their objectives or settle scores. I don't think supporting Black People against injustices is contrary to being Catholic. Rather, I look at racial justice as an essential element of being Catholic and something we should push for. The BLM group has some positions as Catholics that we cannot support in good faith, but like Scouting, where the BSA is just one element, the "official" BLM group is only part of a broader movement for racial justice. Overall I support some of the goals of the movement, but I don't su

Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present, controls the past… The mutability of the past is the central tenet of Ingsoc. Past events, it is argued, have no objective existence, but survive only in written records and in human memories. The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon. And since the Party is in full control of all records, and in equally full control of the minds of its members, it follows that the past is whatever the Party chooses to make it. Orwell, 1984

" I have thought for some time now that the roots of racism in our country lie in the fundamental inability of white people to see black people as human in the same way they see themselves." No. The concept that my many black co-workers, a couple of black good friends, and my black GP might not be human has never entered my mind. (Oh, I forgot that my daughters boyfriend is from Liberia, so I guess that he is considered black; even though his English is crisper than my own.) But why should I waste my time protesting my racist label? I am a Caucasian who refuses to genuflect at the

An interesting anecdotal article. Sorry for what happened in his experience. From that one experience he decides to then paint with a very very broad brush Too many involved in the BSA are Trump supporters, bullish on his foreign and economic policies, silent when it comes to his stoking of racial divisions. So now we see the real reason for his article. Not an honest comment on BSA and it's policies, but a soapbox to criticize the President. And he has every right to, but if you are going to do that own that criticism and be straightforward. Then he again makes a very v

There are some pretty tough penalties at school for racist behavior. Kids are good at conforming to the policies, whether they agree with them or not. Many do not. When they don't, they mostly keep their mouths shut. I agree, from an observational standpoint, that kids appear to be more accepting of the official policies than the adults. I think this is an illusion. I think it simply reflects how well the system is doing in muzzling the kids who have opposing opinions.

One day, a meteor hit the earth, and all the little amphibians and moles that were left poked their little heads up and said, "Wow. Things sure are different around here." It seems like about once a month, this is about how I feel. However, I am lucky enough to be human which, aside from viruses and cockroaches, is probably one of the most adaptable species ever to grace the earth. So, each time a meteor hits, I try to gather up all the young ones and figure out how to help us all learn how to navigate the new landscape because no matter how much things change it is still a beautif

Why would the BSA feel the need to wade into this? Does National not know the Scout oath and the Scout law? I just marked a Scouts rank advancement tonight about how he lives the law and the oath in his daily life. As Scouts that is what we are called to do. Does National not think we take take the law and the oath seriously. We must all share in the collective guilt, right. Purely political. Sad.

I don't anticipate the guillotine for myself or my friends, but a more symbolic decapitation is already occurring. Statues of Father Serra (a Catholic saint) have been beheaded. One was illegally pulled down by protestors as a part of the Juneteenth celebrations in San Francisco. From my point of view, these are celebrations of anti-Catholic bigotry. But so long as acts of anti-Catholic bigotry are conducted under the cloak of Black Lives Matter and Juneteenth, they shall enjoy the protection and support of local officials, liberal journalists, and BSA.

Fortunately, much of the population has the means to resist a new Reign of Terror.