From parents screaming at School Board meetings about Critical Race Theory to those coming unglued over COVID mask mandates to those angered over discussions of LGBTQ equality — or even acknowledgment of such folks’ existence — there is one thing that links these together.
It’s the same thing that animated parents in past years (and still does on occasion) who oppose sex education or the teaching of evolution.
I mean, beyond right-wing politics and a shallow understanding of how the world works.
Namely, they believe their children are their property to control, teach, and raise as they see fit, sort of like the way they might choose to water a house plant or housebreak a dog.
And how dare anyone else tries to influence their children, to teach or expose them to different ways of thinking or being, lest these parents act as though you had sought to kidnap little Connor or Hannah from the mall parking lot.
I know that might sound a bit extreme, but it’s not hard to prove.
