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Groomer Schools 4: Drag Queen Story Hour

  • June 27, 2022
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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 82

Before the last year or so, two terms you wouldn’t have expected to encounter together are “drag queen” and “early childhood education,” but we’re now about three years into a full-fledged Communist revolution in the Western world, which has made it not only commonplace but shoved all in our faces. Here we are in the midst of June, “Pride Month,” 2022, and the Leftist collision of drag queens and young children has been center-stage all month long, including in schools. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the idea of using drag queens, or specifically a program called Drag Queen Story Hour, as an intentional educational methodology in schools isn’t just some fringe activist project but also appears in the scholarly education literature. In this unbelievable episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay reads through an academic paper, “Drag pedagogy: The playful practice of queer imagination in early childhood,” in the journal Curriculum Inquiry. In light of this paper, it is virtually undeniable: what we’re dealing with in schools is Marxism, specifically Queer Marxism here, and it has turned our schools into Groomer Schools.

Additional episodes from the Groomer Schools series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 5


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13 comments
  1. Jon McAlister says:
    April 14, 2023 at 1:21 pm

    I am very concerned about a grooming program at a local elementary school. I saw a poster advertizing a “Daddy-Daughter Dance.” What is this?! It sounds to me like the school is sexualizing children and offering an open season for pedophiles. A quick search online shows that these are happening all over the country–even churches!! (Maybe that’s how those pedophile ministers get started…??) What can be done?!! DISGUSTING!!

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    1. TxTonya says:
      April 24, 2023 at 7:27 pm

      If you do any research on this, father’s dancing with their daughters are not the cause of pedophilia. Most men who are pedophiles are almost always the result of being sexually abused as a child, exposed to pornography at a very young age or raised in a broken home with molestation or sexual exposure. I would have to agree that dancing has become sexualized and has become increasingly inappropriate and should be abandoned in secular and religious settings. And sadly, what are the statistics of drag men as pedophiles verses non drag and why are these men wanting to dance provocatively in front of children?

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    2. Lola Montez says:
      August 26, 2023 at 8:41 am

      Father/Daughter dances or lunches are not new, they were around when I was a kid in the 60s/70s…. nothing remotely sexual about it! No more than the equal number of Mother/Son events. Children love doing things like this with a parent.

      It is YOU sexualizing this, just to be spiteful. The fathers at those dances are not stripping, wearing makeup, or fake prosthetic breasts or dildos. And you know it. So your comment is deliberately false and misleading, for political reasons.

      NOTE: there are no more pedophiles among preachers and priests, than among…. schoolteachers, librarians, camp counselors and other professions YOU LIKE BETTER. There are pedophiles all over; they look normal which is why they are hard to find.

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    3. Patrick Meyer says:
      August 26, 2023 at 3:06 pm

      Is this is joke comment? I can’t tell…

      Reply
  2. Linda Blood says:
    January 24, 2023 at 3:30 pm

    Parents and others concerned must demand — not ask, demand — that those responsible for this pernicious nonsense being spread through these schools, which have been heretofore devoted to reason and reality, cease and desist immediately — and back it up with legal action where necessary. You would not tolerate poison being fed to your kids in the lunchroom. It has no place in the schoolroom either.

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  3. William Ocean says:
    June 29, 2022 at 4:27 pm

    I appreciate the nod to Reggio Emilia. It’s nice that they didn’t forget to leave out the Italian Third Positionists.

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  4. Mad Mom says:
    June 28, 2022 at 6:14 pm

    James, I have been listening to your podcast in an effort to understand what is going on here in MN.

    Our quaint k-8 Montessori school has implemented heavy handed gender identity lessons and disturbing changes to the reproductive health lessons and materials. The upper elementary (4-6th grade) received several hours of reproductive health lessons.

    They are using books in the classrooms (1-3rd grade and 4-6th grade, all mixed aged classes) by author Cory Silverberg, who I recently learned founded a sex shop “Come as You Are”.

    The adult sex store “for beginners” uses the same graphics, font, colors as used in his books for children. The sex shop matches his children’s books.

    One page of his book says that when a baby is born the Dr. guesses the gender and can mistaken a “large clitoris for a small penis or a small penis for a large clitoris”. For 10-12 yr olds. This is one example of several confusing messages in the book, “Sex is a Funny Word”.

    The other classroom books have very graphic and compromising illustrations of sex and genitalia. These were not communicated to parents before students had access to them.

    The 4-8th grade students are required to share their pronouns. My 5th grader asserted himself as “male and straight” to his teacher after I shared my concerns with her after he came home confused, distressed and asking if he was really born a boy and if he might grow breasts. She continued to confuse him (11 yrs old), telling him “there are many kinds of straight”. 

    He was also taught that anyone can have a period. The children were divided by “people that have periods” and “people that don’t” for reproductive health lessons.

    Children were consistently redirected by adults after saying things like, “let’s go boys!” to their classmates at recess because “boys” is not inclusive.

    My 2nd grader’s teacher gave gender identity lessons to small groups followed by a story that reads as a 10 yr old’s transgender memoir, “George”, a book intended for middle schoolers.

    She read this book to a mixed age class of 6-8 yr olds. This book extensively discusses the use medication and surgery to change your body to a different sex, pornography, body dysphoria, hiding web browser history from parents, feeling good wearing a friend’s silky underwear and more. 

    I wouldn’t be surprised is drag queen story hour is coming to this school next.

    If we hadn’t experienced all of this first hand, I wouldn’t understand the alarm and heightened concerns regarding this “trend” of sexualizing children. It’s all too absurd to believe. I am still in absolute shock of what we went through.

    I addressed everything along the way with the teachers and lost complete trust in their judgment and abilities.

     After meeting with school admin and hearing the defenses, we are in the process of making decisions for next year.

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    1. Charlotte Cushman says:
      January 4, 2023 at 3:42 pm

      Dear Mad Mom, I am a retired Montessori teacher and author, and am fighting this horrifying trend in Montessori. Here is my website authenticmontessorieducation.com. You can contact me through that website. We need to fight this.

      Charlotte Cushman

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    2. Charlotte Cushman says:
      January 21, 2023 at 3:49 pm

      Here is an article that I wrote about drag queen story hour that briefly explains what is going on with quotes from the LGBT activists. Thanks to people like James Lindsay, Ronald Pisaturo, and Christopher Rufo for bringing the real purpose of drag events, CRT, etc. to our attention. https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/01/the_real_purpose_of_drag_queen_story_hour.html

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    3. Lola Montez says:
      August 26, 2023 at 8:46 am

      Mad mom, that is just horrifying. I am so sorry your son is exposed to this!’

      The Trans Agenda is definitely now a religion; a religious CULT. The adherents (teachers, librarians) are fanatical and want to convert everyone, but especially children. Imagine a teacher who is a fervent Evangelical Christian… and decides to teach children about her version of Christianity regardless if that childs parents are Catholic, Jewish, Muslim. This teacher secretly baptises children in her class and tells them to hide their new faith in Jesus from their other religion parents…

      Same thing. Also: just 5 years ago, showing graphic sexual images to children was clearly illegal and would have put the teacher in JAIL… now she is brave LGBQTIA+ activist.

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  5. JS says:
    June 27, 2022 at 4:40 pm

    “A school is no place for a drag queen
    It’s time to close the book on Drag Queen Story Hour.”

    by Brendan O’Neill Spiked Online

    “Drag Queen Story Hour feels like a Trojan horse. On the outside it’s funny, colourful blokes reading silly stories to kids, but on the inside it contains a social re-engineering mission that has won the fulsome approval of the woke authorities. Consider NYC mayor Eric Adams’ justification for pumping cash into drag queens for schools. ‘The goal is not only for our children to be academically smart, but also emotionally intelligent’, he says. ‘Drag storytellers… are advancing a love of diversity, personal expression and literacy’, he continues. What we have here is a very clear expansion of the mission of schools, beyond the academic and into the ‘emotional’. Literacy, in Adams’ statement, comes in third place, behind a ‘love of diversity’ and ‘personal expression’. This feels like a redefinition of early-years education, away from making kids smart and self-confident and polite towards ingratiating them into the cults of diversity and narcissism that lie at the heart of 21st-century wokeness. Drag queens are really the footsoldiers of woke indoctrination, being sent into schools to ‘send a message’ as much as to read a story.”

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/06/22/a-school-is-no-place-for-a-drag-queen/

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  6. Bopsamba says:
    June 27, 2022 at 4:13 pm

    Ha , you are in rare form , James , ( hi Marx ) , and I love it when you remind people this horrendous stuff we are going through now , comes from the most destructive ideology in history.

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  7. Aidan Barrett says:
    June 27, 2022 at 2:12 pm

    https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2008/06/ol8-reset-is-not-revolution/

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