National Review was founded by a guy whose definition of conservatism was standing athwart history yelling stop. In 2016, it yelled stop at Donald Trump, and he rolled to a historic victory. I think that ran the score up to History 73, NR 0.
Now NR is yelling stop at conservatives who are protecting kids from being groomed by the LGBT crowd in grade school. After DeSantis banned it in Florida, NR writers clutched their pearls and said don't call opponents groomers.
Nate Hochman said it in a tweet. David Harsanyi did it in a column, "The ‘Groomer’ Accusation Is Counterproductive."
His argument was pretty lame. Maybe his heart was not really into it.
Harsanyi wrote, "'Groomer' has become the fashionable charge to level against anyone who opposes Florida’s parental-rights bill. It’s counterproductive. And not because it isn’t super creepy to see so many liberals invested in ensuring prepubescent kids, trapped in state-run schools, are force-fed post-modern, pseudoscientific ideas about sexuality and transgenderism in direct contradiction of the wishes of their parents."
He went into a couple more not-because-ofs before getting to his point: "Rather, the accusation is wrong because it isn’t really true. Most opponents of the bill, I’m sure, aren’t 'grooming' kids for sexual acts. They simply don’t believe that parents should have a say in their kids’ education. They want to normalize half-baked identitarianism and gender ideology against the will of parents. That’s bad enough."
Fact check: Yes, they are grooming kids. Maybe not for their personal pleasure, but they are softening the field. Normalizing "half-baked identitarianism and gender ideology" makes children more vulnerable to perverts who prey on kids.
DeSantis scored a huge win by banning all sex talk by teachers to kids in kindergarten to third grade. An overwhelming majority of Americans favors such a ban. Harsanyi admitted it.
So what is the problem then?
The word groomer offends people who oppose the new law?
So what?
The law passed without them.
And calling opponents groomers is very productive because it rallies supporters around a cause. We are not going to allow pedos to prey on anyone's kids.
The word groomers also shames (and rightly so) those who want teachers to talk about sex to kids ages 4 to 9. We have won the argument and the battle. We should not worry about the butt-hurt feelings of people who oppose letting kids be kids.
Conservatives are rolling up another historic victory while NR is standing athwart yelling stop. I am beginning to believe NR writers love losing.
It makes you wonder how many groomer allies work there at NR.
ReplyDeleteNo sense asking them --- they can't count.
Deleteharsanyi is a groomer.
DeleteConsidering they’re the same type of folks that run the Lincoln Project I’d say it’s likely the number is high.
DeleteDC is full of pedophiles. Who in their right mind would bring a child into that city?
DeleteGroom generically means "to get into readiness for a specific objective."
ReplyDeleteThe specific objective is to have youngsters first question their sexual identity and then to convince them to change it. In some cases, a further objective to proactively work through the use of drugs to begin to actually change it.
The word fits perfectly, lefties. Deal with it.
Not only does the word fit perfectly, it spreads like a virus because it fits perfectly.
DeleteWell we can always go back to calling them child molesters.
ReplyDeleteThat works for me. And you know once they go to prison for breaking the law - and being called child molesters - we can have the inmates take care of them.
DeleteThis is a continuation of recent promotion by the lefty press to substitute the term "Minor-Attracted Person" for the word "Pedophile" so as not to hurt the feelings of pedos. The inmates are truly running the asylum.
ReplyDeleteWhen they CLAIM they are not groomers reply "You voted for one"
ReplyDeleteThat's right. Every senator who voted to confirm her is a groomer or a groomer enabler. I'm talking to you, Manchin.
DeleteOr reply, "OK, Groomer."
DeleteTulsi Gabbard has it right. She said the Florida law doesn't go far enough; it should include up to Grade 12.
ReplyDeleteIf there's a problem with dysphoria, they can see a psychiatrist or whatever. Someone else said, why do we need laws now where common sense once prevailed? As a society, we have become too permissive where we should have been saying no. I blame the universities and the media for all of this. It is time to end tax payer funding to universities. That will get them to change!
Tulsi Gabbard should be Biden's VP instead of roundheels.
ReplyDeleteNormalization of Pedophila is impossible -unless we don't fight. We are fighting.
I’m glad she’s not. It would give their party more legitimacy.
DeleteNo chance any way, she's too smart too attractive,and outspoken she's an enemy of the far left.
Deleteummmmm........up close, not so much.
DeleteAlinsky Rule #13 "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. "
ReplyDeleteThank you. I was going to look that up. Make them play by their own rules.
DeleteThe liberals got to where they are at because they are good in the usage of symbolism and language. Now, they are eating their own medicine. Nationalists are catching on, but I think it is a little too late.
ReplyDeleteNR = Not Relevant
ReplyDeleteThe use of the word is a masterstroke. Because it IS grooming and because it is shocking the right actually has the balls to use it because it's so precise.
ReplyDeleteThe right just did what the left does and they don't like it one bit. Portray your enemies in the worst light possible. But in this case it's all true.
"A truth that's told with bad intent
DeleteBeats all the lies you can invent."
- William Blake
NR writers are rent seekers. If that means kissing a boiled raddled arse that hasn't been hosed down in a few months they'll stand in line and pucker up.
ReplyDeleteI'm trying to start #GroomerDemon hashtag on Twit.
ReplyDeleteI'm trying to start #GroomerDemon hashtag on Twit.
ReplyDelete"I am beginning to believe NR writers love losing."
ReplyDeleteEventually, after wagering on the horses and sports events (moderately with an honest won/lost profit ledger, since 1985), I ran into the theory that gamblers bet because they WANT to lose.
Which initially shocked me. As time went on, it became apparent that this makes sense. If you lose, you're a "victim" (it's never YOUR fault). Open the self-pity flood gates! (And destroy yourself respect.)
The National Review is a casino full of losers. They'll never admit it.
(In a larger context, the reality is that each and every day, 97% of all gamblers lose. They'd like to think this is so because things are "unfair," bitch moan etc. This is not so. It's an ancient zero-sum game, and the 97% who lose are the zeros. Who did it to themselves.)
They want to get invited to parties. Heck! They might even get themselves invited to the parties Madison Cawthorn was talking about. OR...they already have been and when the mud starts to flow they might drown in it.
DeleteI am beginning to believe NR writers love losing. Just like the deep state RINOs who support pedophiles.
ReplyDeleteMost opponents of the bill, I’m sure, aren’t 'grooming' kids for sexual acts. They simply don’t believe that parents should have a say in their kids’ education.
ReplyDeleteBack in the 50s and 60s, "Liberals" would call you paranoid and then ask you don't believe that, do you. We're good folks just like you.
Who will call your sons baby killers for serving and call you racist because all welfare all the time never helped anybody.
Spot on, especially the last two paragraphs. Thank you Don!
ReplyDeleteSomeday very soon, anyone who admits to being a liberal, or voting for a democrat groomer will be shot on sight.
ReplyDeleteIncluding every disgusting, demented "transgender" whacko.
Hope it starts tomorrow.
Every liberal democrat is public enemy #1 and should be treated as such.
Carry on.
Yeah....I dumped NR back in '12 after close to 30 yrs...thought I'd take a peek in '15 and '16 for a minute...all "Orange Man Bad" all the time...knew I made the right choice...perma war crowd led by Maxie-Shield Boot was too much to take....even as a joke...
ReplyDeleteNational Review along with the Weekly Standard. Triggered retards.
ReplyDeleteHomosexuals, by definition, do not reproduce. So the argument for a genetic predisposition towards homosexuality is, on its face, false. The only way aging perverts can keep their ranks full is by seducing innocents into their way of life. This has become institutionalized in our public school system, while we weren't looking. Robbing a child of their innocence, denying them their childhood should be a capital offence. Once their guilt has been firmly established the punishment should be swift, sure and final. Then, and only then, will they learn to keep their hands, and their perversions, to themselves.
ReplyDeleteActually anyone who opposes the law is most definitely either a groomer or groomer adjacent.
ReplyDeleteI fell off the NR reservation back in '12 after about 30 yrs....took a peek at how they were handling the Trump "phenomenon" in '15 and '16...knew my decision was correct...also booted their kissing cousins at Weekly Standard...again, peeked again in '15 and '16....the two idiot publications may have been the original recipe TDS media outlets...or pretty close, anyway ....
ReplyDeleteRacist Leftists/Democrats never want to let us call criminals what they are. Too bad. Illegals. Groomers. Pedophiles. Men. Women. Marxists. Patriots.
ReplyDeleteWe aren't going away, and you don't get to hide from what you really are.
NR embodies and oozes the pedantic. They purvey purist bs in an impure and imperfect world. Their opposition to successful business person and dedicated patriot, POTUS Trump, always came across as cult-like nonsense & arrogant swill from the NR club's honey bucket.
ReplyDeleteIsn’t NR the same organization that was sucking cash from the Teet of Google? Stop! They sold their credibility to the devil long ago.
ReplyDelete"Groomer" bad. "Don't say gay," totally acceptable.
ReplyDeleteThe National Review sold its soul long ago and is now desperately grasping at straws for relevance.
Between this reaction to the FL law and Jeffrey Epstein and the Lolita Express, the whole thing makes me wonder about the Comet Pizza backstory.
ReplyDeleteThe fundamental truth is that the ruler-elites think they have the right to use our children and us however they want. Either as sexual trinkets, as combat troops to bleed for them around the world in their misplaced campaigns to mold the world to their liking, or just as livestock on their tax farm. It's time for the common citizen to go Galt and quit participating.
And in that big gap between identity and chemical/surgical alterations is that teacher asking little Johnny or Sally to "show me where it tickles, I can show you how to fix it."
ReplyDeleteConservatives have been/are called every foul mouthed and fallacious name in the book but when the right calls it like it is, the so-called conservatives yell stop!
ReplyDeleteNR is a fraud. It should be obvious by now their entire reason for existing is to protest against what is not "conservative". When Trump was elected they lost their reason to exist which is why they had to destroy him. They make their money complaining about the way things should be until they are. Frauds. Liars. Snakes. Their entire charade should die a quick and painful death.
"He went into a couple more not-because-ofs before getting to his point: "Rather, the accusation is wrong because it isn’t really true. Most opponents of the bill, I’m sure, aren’t 'grooming' kids for sexual acts. They simply don’t believe that parents should have a say in their kids’ education. They want to normalize half-baked identitarianism and gender ideology against the will of parents. That’s bad enough.""
ReplyDeleteYou do realize that most parents would throw their kids out than discuss the idea that they might be gay yes: https://lesley.edu/article/the-cost-of-coming-out-lgbt-youth-homelessness
https://lesley.edu/article/the-cost-of-coming-out-lgbt-youth-homelessness
"Fact check: Yes, they are grooming kids. Maybe not for their personal pleasure, but they are softening the field. Normalizing "half-baked identitarianism and gender ideology" makes children more vulnerable to perverts who prey on kids."
How? If anything, this talk protects predators: https://holybulliesandheadlessmonsters.blogspot.com/2022/05/anti-grooming-conservatives-ignore.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/skeptic/comments/onw9rs/homophobic_failure/h5y3ubu/