Adios, muchachos.
They wanted to be “more inclusive,” so the Boy Scouts changed their name to “Scouting America”and plunged themselves into hot water with an outraged public (https://revolver.news/2024/05/america-unleashes-on-woke-boy-scouts-intense-backlash-disgraced-group-tucks-tail-runs/).
When the Scouts announced their “rebranding” on X, the platform had to shut down because there were too many adverse comments to publish. Somehow the mantra, “to reflect inclusivity,” just wouldn’t wash. People saw it as a euphemism for “Woke Scouts.” Which, of course, it is.
Once upon a time “Boy Scout” was synonymous with uprightness, kindness, honesty and integrity. What a reputation Boy Scouts had! And now it looks like they have pissed it all away.
Can they go back to being just Boy Scouts? But it looks like that bird has flown the coop.
And so another revered American institution bites the dust, another human sacrifice to Far Left Crazy. Someone will have to create something that will take its place.
Another regrettable move of our times. Incredible how a society can destroy all of its best institutions and not blink an eye. Shame.
Sometimes I just can’t understand how people can be so freakin’ stupid.
I’d say that they are done for, at this point.
Song request: I Asked the Lord, Carroll Roberson has a version and there are others.
First post tomorrow.
Awhile back, the progressives tried to destroy the Boy Scouts through a series of anti-descrimination lawsuits requiring the BSA to open membership to gays. The Supreme Court eventually said that, as a private organization, the BSA had the right to decide membership.
So the progessives took another couple of decades to destroy the BSA through infiltration of troops and leadership and sexual abuse of the boys. (Similar pattern of destruction of the Catholic Church and many other institutions considered dangerous by the progressives.)
My son earned rank of Eagle Scout back in the day, of which he is still proud, but now he rarely admits it to anyone.
“Progressivism” is a curse.
I still have my Boy Scout uniform and some of the equipment. I think I need to burn it.
My father was a Boy Scout. We enjoyed his Boy Scout Manual.
One of the things that made the Boy Scouts exceptional, was that they were *ex*clusive, not *in*clusive.
You said it.
In der deutschen Sprache ist das Wort “Patriot” auch gestrichen worden weil ein Patriot
ist ein Nationalist und ein Nationalist ist ein Nazi….