By Selwyn Duke
“In junior high they’d come home saying they wouldn’t say the Pledge of Allegiance anymore,” one mother related. “They told me boy and girl bathrooms were wrong and they should all be gender neutral. That’s how it started.” How it ended was with estrangement from her own children.
Another mother told a similar story, with her daughter once refusing to attend Thanksgiving dinner because it celebrated “Columbus’ genocide.” That all started after the young lady had “an awakening” in her sophomore year of college.
Welcome to the world of kids who trade their parental relationships for cult-like ideology.
Last November, The New American reported on Annabella Rockwell, whose brainwashing in academia turned her into an unhappy, anti-male social-justice warrior bent on “reforming” her mother and fighting the “patriarchy,” all while wallowing in victimhood and battling a campus-acquired alcohol problem. Her mom finally had to pay a deprogrammer $300 a day to restore her sanity.
Now, after reading about Rockwell’s story in the New York Post, other parents have come forward to reveal they also have lost children to this cultural revolution — and that they seek deprogramming for them, too.
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The Pledge of Allegiance became optional in 1971 at my JH. To this day I'll stand, but not say the words. Making a flag an icon to worship is nonsense, besides the words are a mish-mash highlighting the evil of our Republic being a Nation too. I've no problem with the Flag or respecting it otherwise. But, since this pledge thing came about 100 years ago, it jives with other factors which brought about our current problems, one being the lack of proper representation in the House and the growth of the federal behemoth. I pledge nothing for and to our Dictatorship - Nothing. The excessive use of our Great Flag as a backdrop must be reconsidered. One Flag is enough. The Nazis used many flags, and we have been doing the same for decades - disgraceful.
Posted by: Eric Hodgdon | January 11, 2023 at 09:20 PM