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your support. Last hour I went over the case out
of Montgomery County, Maryland about that went up to the
Supreme Court where parents are saying that they should be
able to opt out of the school curriculum that includes
these books, these LGBTQ plus books. That's how they're described
by by the school district and by their allies, the
ACLU and such. But it's more more than that. The
books are sometimes graphic, right, They're talking about sexual themes
and such, and some of these books are inappropriate for
the ages of the kids that are being exposed to
the material. And the parents do not want their kids
to be exposed to this material, and they have sued,
and so it's gone up to the US Supreme Court.
They heard oral arguments on it today. I have a
bunch of a bunch of emails here, let me read
them on this topic. Stan says, So you can't omit
books on queer and transgender subjects because they would be unworkable.
That's what the district says, like, Oh, we can't. We
can't let the kids opt out. We can't let the
parents opt out because it became unworkable because they had
such high rates of absenteeism, which in a sane world
would be the same to you that not a lot
of people want this to be taught. They do not
want this as part of a curriculum, particularly in grades
K through five. But it's K twelve gov CO schools,
and so that's not sane. And so they're like, Okay,
we're going to do away with the opting out, and
we're going to force everybody into these programs, into this curriculum,
and teachers will be allowed to read these books to
your kid. And so that's why the parents have sued
in the district's response is, well, we can't do the
opt out because it's unworkable. Right, yet, somehow you're able
to omit the Ten Commandments, says Steve. Yeah, they got
that out pretty quick. They were able to figure that
one out. James says, the growth of school choice or vouchers,
even in blue states is driven by parents concerned over
the continuing efforts to indoctrinate students in progressive ideology. What's
the current Well, that is true. So there are different
reasons obviously for parents to make this decision, and James
is exactly right. Part of it is ideological here. Another
part of it is that their kids may have special
needs that are not being addressed by the public school,
whatever those special needs are, or they're not being educated,
or they're being bullied and threatened at school so they
can't learn. Right. There are all sorts of reasons why
parents make these decisions, and that's the beauty of the market.
Every parent gets to make the decision for their own
child based on the criteria that matters most to the parent,
not to the school system. The school system is never
going to care more about your kid than the parent does.
And yes I am excluding abusive, neglectful parents in this
because there isn't anything you can do on that front.
That's why you have mandatory reporting requirements and stuff like that.
So the yeah, so that is one of the things
James says that the indoctrination. Yes, what's the current state
of school vouchers in North and South Carolina? Well, North
Carolina is now universal. North Carolina has the Opportunity Scholarship program.
Everybody can apply to get voucher money. They expanded it
last year to include vouchers, I think. But it's a
it is a it's a it's a progressive system. In
other words, the lower income the parents have, the more
voucher money you get. And I want to say, I'm
trying to remember what it was, seventy five hundred dollars
a year. Is that what it was, or maybe it
was thirty five I forget, but you get the full amount.
And then there are like four brackets of income. And
then you know, as you move up the brackets in
the income, So the more money you make, the less
money you would get of the full voucher. So and
it used to just it used to to forbid people
that are upper income from getting any voucher money. But
that was peeled away last year. They fully funded the
whole system. There were so many people on the wait list,
so North Carolina's got them. I don't believe South Carolina
has the same kind of program, but I don't know.
Catholic schools are overflowing with long waiting lists, and now
nearly twenty five percent of students are not Catholic, up
from two percent when I attended in the seventies. Yeah. Well,
even non Catholics know that their kids are going to
get better education at the Catholic school, right, That's why
they want to send them to the Catholic school. It's
a good school. The kid's going to learn stuff, it's
got a good credential, right, So as a diploma hanging
on the wall, it's going to help you, you know,
get into college or whatnot. So we're at the very
beginning of this in North care lineup. I mean, the
voucher program has been around for a while, to be sure,
but the expansion of the opportunity scholarship program, like you are, like,
we're at the very beginning. I've talked about this S
curve before, right, the early adoption with people that are
sort of your pioneers. They come up with an idea
or a product, they got to sell it. It takes
a while for it to kind of catch on, and
it goes pretty slowly at first, and then very quickly
and then boom and explodes, and then as more and
more people adopted, it becomes the norm, and then it
kind of levels off, right, So it's this kind of
flattened S curve kind of a deal. And I think
that's what we are where at the beginning of this
S curve. My expectation is that you're going to see
more and more and more private schools coming into the
market to try to capture those kids, those that market share.
That's my expectation. But we'll see, John says. They say
reading these gay books have no effect on kids, but
government also banned cartoon character commercials because it influenced kids
to want that serial. Anybody remember Joe Cammell. Yeah, a
consistent standard would be nice. Here. This is the same
dynamic as the Will and Grace dynamic. Remember that one.
Remember Will and Grace, the TV show, right that was
credited with normalizing or promoting or making people more comfortable
with homosexuality. Because now everybody saw Will was a nice guy,
Grace was a nice girl. They liked both of them
as a funny show. And then Jack the friend and
all of this, right, So it moved this lifestyle, right,
these characters, these people, this story, they it moved it
into people's homes where now they felt like they knew
somebody who was gay, whereas before they did not. This
was the nineties, and so Will and Grace is credited
by the left, by the activist crowd, by the people
who were promoting it as being a huge driver of
public sentiment towards that thing. Murphy Brown another one, Murphy
Brown having the kid out of wedlock. Dan Quail made
a comment he was the vice president at the time,
made some comment about how it's not, you know, sending
a good moral picture. Everybody's like, oh my gosh, I
can't believe it, and all this, they say, Murphy Brent
Ellen degenerous, right, like this kind of this, the kind
of cultural entertainment that we that we consume, right, drives
a shift in cultural norms. The left knows this. The
left is well aware. So for them now to say, oh,
reading the book doesn't actually do that, it's a lie.
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gender related books to very young children in school might
be too close to grooming. Perhaps legislators should look into that.
Uh yeah, there is kind of an element of it
to that. Yeah, see when I was in school, when
I was a kid, if you ever asked a personal
question of a teacher like that was detention. Like they
did not They did not give you anything. They didn't
talk about their spouses, they didn't talk about their kids.
By the time you get up into the high school
age range, yes, then you start hearing a little bit
more about like one of my teachers got married, so
her last name changed, and so like, oh, you got married,
and of course these are high school kids, like ooh
she got married. I don't remember her maiden name. Missus
House was her last name, like spelled like the house.
And but she would never talk about any of it.
You would just say, okay, open your books, move on whatever,
like that was it. There was a shutting down of
any of this kind of talk except for the health
class where they showed us all of the the after
pictures of the STDs. That was not pleasant. But yeah,
they never talked about this stuff to us when we
were that young. There were lines that the teachers did
not cross, and that has been lost. It seems to me.
That's what it seems to me. Your mileage may vary.
The goal of public education has become to create a
generation of Oh, Greta Thunberg, Yes, Greta, how dare you?
She's now all in on the Palestine thing? Have you
noticed that? So I'm going to read now a piece
out of the Washington Examiner, not the entire thing. I'm
gonna be the highlights as I am wont to do.
It's a piece written by a guy named Mark Judge.
And if the name rings a belle, you may recall
why as we get to the end of this piece.
So on May seventeenth, coming up, one of the coolest
events in my area will take place. The Gaithersburg Book
Festival is just a couple of miles from where I
live in Maryland. The festival features some of the most
interesting authors representing all different genres. Usually, he talks about
though that most of the titles now and the authors
seem to be of a particular persuasion meaning of the left.
One of the featured authors is Jubi Ariola Headley. He
him a black queer poet, storyteller, first generation United Statesian,
and the author of two collections of poems, one called
Bound and another called Original Kink. There are books about abortion.
There are manifestos about how America has to change, and
of course a volume rejecting traditional biological sex and he says, Look.
There are some more mainstream titles like Rick Atkinson, He's
going to be there. He's the author of The Fate
of the Day, The War for America Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston.
There are also several novels from different genres like crime, romance,
and fantasy. But what's missing are young males. There are
no young male authors who are producing literary fiction that
is marketed to young men. There's a guy named Jacob Savage.
He wrote recently in Compact magazine about the phenomenon of
the vanishing male white writer. Savage traced the decline of
young white men in American letters by looking at the
New York Times best selling list of notable fiction. I
don't know if it's best selling, but the notable fiction
list in twenty twelve, the Times included so this was
what fifteen years ago? Almost that list included seven white
American men under the age of forty three. The next
year it went from seven to six in twenty fourteen
six and then the door shut twenty fourteen, so a
decade ago and within what five years? Six years? By
twenty twenty one, Savage writes, quote, there was not a
single white male millennial on the Notable Fiction list. There
were none again in twenty twenty two. There was one
in twenty three, and there was one in twenty twenty four.
There were also no white male millennials featured in Vulture's
twenty twenty four year end fiction list. There were none
in Vanity Affairs. There were none in the Atlantics. Esquire
has featured fifty three millennial fiction writers on its year
end book lists over the last five years, like ten
a year, and of those fifty three, one white American man.
In The New York Times, recently, David J. Morris wrote
a Creative He's a creative writing professor. He says that
America has lost its literary men over the past two decades.
Literary fiction has become a largely female pursuit. Novels are
increasingly written by women and read by women. Women readers
now account for about eighty percent of fiction sales eighty percent.
Morris dude, I grew up, I read I read so much,
and I have so many books that I haven't read.
I have so many books that I haven't read now
sitting on my shelf because I read all day long.
But I don't read books. I read this stuff. I
read current events all day long, and by the end
of the day it's like I don't want to read anymore.
I've been reading all day literally, you know, twelve hours,
So I don't want to read anymore. But when I
was growing up, I read all the time. I read
like every Stephen King novel there was. Morris argues this
is the creative writing professor. He says that if you
care about the health of our society, the decline and
fall of literary men should worry you. In recent decades,
young men have regressed educationally, emotionally, and culturally. Men descend
deeper into video games and pornography. Missing are novels which
improve one's emotional IQ. Novels help us form our identities
and understand our lives. Even famous liberal writers Joyce, Carol
Oates James Patterson has also written about this. Right, this
is a well known and disturbing trend inside the literary world.
Several recent articles have noted that Lonesome Dove has recently
experienced a surge in popularity. Did you know that I
did not? This novel is forty years old. Why. Well,
because the American library elite has discouraged the formation of
the next Larry McMurtry. We're not producing any more of
these kinds of authors, these male American authors that are
writing stories for young men. These books offered more than
just action. They had insights into work, sex, religion, and
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op ed at the Washington Examiner, the headline is the
left has blocked young white men from publishing novels. And
he's spent the first half of this four page op
ed giving examples talking about, you know, all these different
lists in the literary world that are published and how
there aren't any more American white men writing books for
young men, young American men anymore. And there are authors
that have noticed this and are pointing this out, and
they're saying that this is not healthy. This is not
a good thing, just like it's not a good thing
to limit, you know, publishing of books by any group. Right.
The object here is not to say that we have
to go back to only publishing white male books. That's
not what he's saying. It's not what I'm advocating. However,
when you go from you know, half of the list
being made up of white dudes, white American dudes, you know,
in twenty twenty or yeah, twenty ten, rather and then
within five years they're none, that shows something is occurring, right,
Something is happening. And it's not that those authors just
don't don't exist any longer. It's not that people don't
know how to write and read, although K twelve schools
have done a pretty good job of getting us there.
But no, it's that the book publishing world is making
a conscious decision not to have these authors published. They
are the gatekeepers. Now. He goes on to say that
today men who are looking for similar themes have to
go to smaller publishers, and he talks about how in
twenty fifteen he wrote a piece that celebrated a publisher
called hard Case Crime. That's the name of the publishing company,
and he said at the time, this was ten years ago.
The simplest explanation for the popularity of Hard Case Crime
is that the books, like most pulp fiction and the
film noir movies it inspired, are about animus the Jungian
term carl jung, the Jungian tern for male passion. Like
a Scorsese film, they depict men on the edge when
the world is increasingly hostile to dangerous and flambuoyant men.
In the nineteen fifties, writers like Jim Thompson and deschell
I don't know this person's name, Dashiel Hammett brought readers
into a world we are carefully manicured lawns, jello and
white picket fences had not taken hold. Okay, so that's
what he wrote about this book publishing company. Three years later,
Mark Judge would find himself in the middle of a
political firestorm in Washington, d C. Do you know who
he is now? Mark Judge? He was a what high
school friend of Brett Kavanaugh, Mark Judge, and he got
swept up in this firestorm and the media discovers his
article on hard case crime, and they went absolutely berserk
on him. One outlet described his work as quote. Many
of his writings. An MSNBC reporter noted align with the
ideology of the MRA movement. Do you know what the
MR movement is? The Men's Rights activists MRA. In one instance,
Judge praised the wonderful beauty of uncontrollable male passion. The
MSNBC co hosts Ali Velshi and Stephanie Rule couldn't quite
wrap their heads around Judge's praise of men with out
of control sex drive. Judge says, I actually did not
know anything about the men's rights movement. I had no
idea about that. I was just writing about dudes. In
twenty twenty two, he says, I published a book about
now my experience being mulled by the media. The name
of that book was called The Devil's Triangle. Mark Judge
versus the New American Stassy. It's about politics, but also
it's about the writers who shaped me. And then he
lists them GK. Chesterton, Tolkien, Salinger, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Ellison, Thomas, Wolfe,
Hunter Thompson. And he says his book was ignored by
the legacy media because, of course, but ironically, when reviewing
a different book on politics that was written by a
leftist adversary of mine and that briefly referred to me,
the New York Times book critic Alexandra Jacobs wrote that quote,
one longs for more about Mark Judge that was in
this book by this other author, about that or mentioned
Mark Judge. And when this woman was after she had
read this competing book from his adversary, he does not name.
The New York Times critics said, oh, one longs for
more about Mark Judge. Oh, I wish we knew more.
But he's like I wrote about it, it's in my book. Jacobs.
The critic and the New York Times have refused to
review his book, and despite growing up just a couple
of miles away, the Gaithersburg Gaithersburg Book Festival has never
offered him an invitation to attend. Right, this is the
gatekeeping function that these people are providing. That they have
assumed they're blocking access of authors to their publishing houses.
And these are private companies, they are free to do
what they would like. Absolutely. However, I feel like there
is I feel like there is a demand that is
not being met. But here's the problem. If the book
boks don't get published by so called reputable publishers, then
they don't make their way down into the K twelve
government system. They don't make their way into these libraries.
And so when you do this for long enough, all
you will have on the shelves are old books call
of the Wild or something right, or you're going to
have the current offerings that are not written by anybody
that these authors or that these readers have any interest
in reading. They cannot relate to it. They don't want
to read it. So when I hear people in academia
and in the libraries and in education circles and they
talk about how, oh, we're just you know, offering this stuff.
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more transparent. Headline judge rules school can ban xx protests
over males in girls' sports. This is from the New
Hampshire Journal by Damian Fisher. There is a school district
up there called the Bow School district bow or maybe
it's bow. It could be the bow. It's New Hampshire.
A judge rule. The federal judge ruled that the district
was acting within its authority to kick two soccer dads
out of a girl's game. So these are dads watching
their daughters play soccer, and they showed up wearing wristbands,
pink wristbands with the letters XX on it, which is
the universal sign for moonshining. No, it was a silent
protest against biological males playing on girls teams. One of
the dads, Anthony foot or Foote Foote, Footy, I don't know,
told the New Hampshire Journal that he plans to keep
fighting for what he sees as the rights of women
and girls. The judge, he says. The judge openly admitted
that pride flags are allowed because they promote inclusion, but
wrisk bands defending women's sports are banned because they might
offend somebody. And he says that's viewpoint discrimination, plain and simple,
and it's unconstitutional. The judge in the case, Stephen mccauliffe,
in his ruling. The crux of the ruling is that
while foot and his fellow dad Fellers so Foot and
Fellers and the others acted within their First Amendment to protest.
Venues like school athletic events are considered though limited public forums,
and school officials acted within their legal authority to restrict
what the parents said and did. Here's what he said.
This is the judge. The question then becomes whether the
school district can manage its athletic events and its athletic
fields and facilities, that is, its limited public forum in
a manner that protects its students from adult speech that
can reasonably be seen to target a specific student participating
in the event, as well as other similar gender identifying
students by invited adult spectators when that speech demeans, harasses, intimidates,
and bullies. The answer is straightforward. Of course, it can discriminate. Indeed,
school authorities are obligated to do so. Dude, do you
know what we used to do in high school, hike?
We had basketball games, all of our home basketball games.
There were classmates of mine would bring a big bed
sheet and they would they would tape it up on
the wall on the top of the bleachers in the gym, okay,
so you could see it. It was huge. It's a
bed sheet and in the middle of the bed sheet
is spray painted the word meat head, and then there
are numbers, and like, the later the season gets, the
more numbers are on that sheet. So the very first
game of the year, you hang the sheet up there
says meathead on it, and they identify a player on
the opposing team, and usually it's the best player. And
you pick one of these players, and every time they
touch the ball, for however long they're touching the ball,
you chant mead heead mead head me, and then you
stop as soon as he passes. So every time he
touches that he knows that the crowd, that the home
crowd is gonna chant meat heead at him. And just
in case anybody is unfamiliar with who they were targeting,
that's why they put the number up there. So they
put the number, they spray paint the number or write
a number on the bed sheet, and everybody targets that number,
and then after the game is over, they x out
the number. So by the end of the season, you
come back or you show up to play our high school,
and you're going to see a sheet up there with
like a dozen different numbers with x's on them, and
woe unto you if you are chosen as the meathead
of that game. That's I think that, like demeans, harasses,
intimidates bullies, I think we checked every one of those.
For days before the September tenth, twenty twenty four game,
Anthony Foot and Fellers made it known to school officials
that they were unhappy that their high school was going
to be playing a game against a girls team that
happens to have a boy on it, boy by the
name of Parker Terrell. Days before the game, Terrell made
national news with a court victory against the state of
New Hampshire's law barring biological males from girls' sports. So
this kid sued to be able to play against girls
in soccer in high school and now he's coming to
Bow High School and parents of the girls soccer players
not happy that a dude is out there running circles
around all their daughters, scoring at will. The dads went
on social media to discuss various protest ideas. McAuliffe, the judge,
wrote that it is reasonable, given the context of the game,
for the administrators of the district to be concerned that
the potential protests would be inter by terrell as bullying
and harassing. Wearing a wristband with double x's on it
as a form of protest, that's bullying. Now, I recall,
I'm trying to remember who it was that I heard
say this that the hardest thing that you have ever
been through. It may have been Jordan Peterson. The hardest
thing you've ever been through is the hardest thing you've
ever been through. Well that makes sense, right, yes, But
if you've never been through anything difficult, then somebody wearing
a wristband can just destroy you because you haven't learned
how to overcome anything more difficult than that. So the
judge said that the school had the right to limit
the dad's speech. The judge in the case has yet
to rule on permanent injunction. Fellers and Foot and the
other parents are seeking to allow them to protest at
school games and other events. Like if you can't even
wear a wristband to express your displeasure in what the
district and what the school system and the government is
forcing your daughter to do. Like you guys have lost
the plot here. This is again, this is like an
eighty twenty issue that Democrats have chosen the wrong side
on yet again. All right, that'll do it for this episode.
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