The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - August 29, 2023


The Left Freaks Out Over Support For Parental Rights


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In this episode of Thick & Thin I talk about the ridiculous position taken by the Canadian left regarding parents wanting to know if their kids are trying to identify as a different gender in the classroom, and why they should have the right to know.

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00:00:00.000 The amount of COVID denial coming from the Canadian left these days is absolutely incredible.
00:00:05.140 For some reason, it only took a poll coming out showing that the vast majority of the Canadian
00:00:09.980 people actually want parents to have oversight and be able to give consent for things that
00:00:14.740 happen in the classroom with their children has set the left on an absolutely ballistic
00:00:19.460 tirade on social media, accusing everyone of not really supporting rights and freedoms
00:00:23.840 and violating minority rights by simply wanting parents to actually have authority over their
00:00:28.720 children and not drop their kids off at school and have shutters drop down around the school
00:00:33.260 and no one's allowed to know what goes on in there.
00:00:35.600 That's legitimately what their position effectively is, that you have to trust the experts in the
00:00:40.680 classroom like Max Fawcett says, and that parents shouldn't be allowed to meddle in their own
00:00:44.860 kids' education.
00:00:46.080 It's ridiculous.
00:00:47.480 But this is the poll that came out the other day that showed that overall in Canada, with
00:00:51.220 only one province being below 70% approval, in Canada, overall, the average is 78% support
00:00:58.580 for parents either they're being informed if their kid's trying to identify as a different
00:01:03.340 gender in the classroom, or that they need to be informed and give consent for that to
00:01:08.140 happen.
00:01:08.740 That is an eminently reasonable position that parents should be able to actually control
00:01:14.080 or be informed about the way that their kids try to identify in the classroom.
00:01:18.780 And let's remember, we're not talking about 25-year-olds in college.
00:01:22.780 We're talking about eight-year-olds.
00:01:24.360 I think that parents should be allowed to know that their boy or girl wants to identify
00:01:29.180 as the opposite gender.
00:01:30.860 That is completely reasonable.
00:01:32.980 And obviously, the unreasonable ones are the ones who think that it's somehow strange or
00:01:37.960 weird for parents to actually want to know that information.
00:01:40.880 Frankly, and I don't think that, well, I guess I shouldn't even say frankly, because I think
00:01:44.440 it's such an obvious position.
00:01:46.240 I think that it's a little bit creepy to not want parents to actually know that their kids
00:01:50.420 are wanting to identify as different genders in the classroom.
00:01:52.760 And I think that parents should be given the information about not only that their kids
00:01:57.160 want to identify as a different gender, but who told them that and what curriculum inside
00:02:02.240 the classroom was being taught on topics like gender theory.
00:02:05.700 Because I really doubt that other children are informing someone else's children about
00:02:10.520 gender identity and getting them to sort of, you know, want to identify in an opposite 0.97
00:02:14.380 direction.
00:02:15.260 I guarantee it's usually not all teachers, obviously, but it's a minority of activist teachers
00:02:20.440 in these classrooms wanting to do lessons on tolerance and how you know that even if you
00:02:25.500 are a girl, you might feel more like a boy, just garbage like this.
00:02:28.640 And for some reason, the left thinks that it's a denial of rights for parents to actually
00:02:34.560 want to know that this stuff is going on.
00:02:36.860 They think that the ultimate freedom is kids doing whatever they want under the control of
00:02:42.080 teachers.
00:02:42.480 Because that's the whole thing here that people are trying to push that's completely
00:02:46.740 wrong, like David Muscope in his stupid blog here that I don't, that I do not, you know, 0.66
00:02:52.340 recommend anyone read.
00:02:53.980 But his general argument is somehow that parents are coming down on kids and violating their
00:02:59.540 like rights as trans people or something like that, or they're violating their privacy.
00:03:04.200 But the thing with freedom when it comes to children is that ultimate freedom with children
00:03:09.860 doesn't really exist, especially in the parent-child relationship.
00:03:14.360 That can't exist because children are not fully developed and they cannot make choices
00:03:18.980 for themselves.
00:03:20.000 You know, it's just simply true when people point out children still believe in Santa Claus
00:03:24.680 and the tooth fairy.
00:03:25.760 We probably shouldn't be respecting every single whim they have when it comes to their personal
00:03:29.840 identity and their different orientations and whatnot.
00:03:32.800 That for the first, you know, 18 years, maybe you could whittle me down to 16.
00:03:36.720 For the first long while of their lives, that the parents should be able to control social
00:03:42.840 aspects of their children's lives, that children cannot be given ultimate freedom.
00:03:47.340 Because here's what happens when the left argues that children should be granted more
00:03:50.700 freedom.
00:03:51.240 And aren't you in favor of freedom?
00:03:52.340 Aren't you in favor of freedom for children?
00:03:54.620 Is that what they're really saying is give more freedom to control your children to the
00:03:59.420 school.
00:03:59.760 Give it more to the teacher.
00:04:01.220 Because obviously, children are very impressionable.
00:04:03.780 And if parents are not given the power to actually control the classroom environment in some
00:04:08.580 ways, then a teacher is going to have full control over it.
00:04:12.260 It's not like children show up to school and tell the teacher what they want to do today
00:04:16.100 or what kind of math lessons they want.
00:04:18.540 You know, that's not that's never something that's ever happened outside of, you know,
00:04:21.620 I guess, extremely smart children who really take academics seriously.
00:04:24.940 But when when you leave your kid at school, it's not that you're just letting them be themselves
00:04:29.500 and develop in the way that they're always going to know oftentimes you are going to be
00:04:33.740 having them be developed in the way that the teacher chose, unless there are proper protections
00:04:38.140 in place.
00:04:38.880 That's where a lot of conservatives find this a little bit creepy when they're telling
00:04:42.700 the left to leave their kids alone.
00:04:44.240 And they're thinking, oh, are you are like you're trying to abuse your kid by not giving
00:04:48.900 it to this, you know, potentially very far left teacher and having them fill their heads
00:04:52.840 with all the social theories they have.
00:04:54.320 That's obviously ridiculous.
00:04:55.840 But this is the position that the left has dug up.
00:04:58.720 We have this other ridiculous article from CTV News, which, again, there's no opinion
00:05:03.420 label on it or anything.
00:05:04.740 It's presented as actual factual news.
00:05:06.980 And the headline is politicians who fan the flames of intolerance on gender identity while
00:05:11.300 claiming honorable motives like that.
00:05:14.460 Like what?
00:05:15.020 That's literally an opinion piece.
00:05:16.180 It's written by Thomas Mulcair, the former MVP leader.
00:05:19.200 It's obviously an opinion piece.
00:05:20.520 But in the legacy media these days, it's not an opinion that somehow actually wanting
00:05:25.440 parents to have, you know, consent over what happens in the classroom with their kids is
00:05:30.040 somehow a violation of someone's like personal identity or whatever.
00:05:34.440 It's ridiculous.
00:05:35.720 But this is but like, again, articles like this argue this stupid point that somehow you
00:05:40.780 are against freedom and rights if you do if you actually want parental rights.
00:05:44.600 And that's like and the funny thing is the left only supports rights that have never existed
00:05:48.700 before.
00:05:49.100 It's always these sort of like, you know, right to being able to have other people like
00:05:54.620 use the pronouns you want and stuff like that or abortion rights as if that's somehow like
00:05:59.560 constitutionally bound that you can never pass any law restriction abortion and whatnot.
00:06:04.320 And on this case, they're saying, well, you know, children, you know, your children have
00:06:08.680 the right to identify in any way you want.
00:06:10.800 And if you don't go along with it, somehow you're being a disgusting person when really I
00:06:15.260 find what's going on here is that there's a lot of disgusting people out there who want
00:06:19.180 to undermine and separate the relationship parents have with their kids.
00:06:23.100 I'm not going down this rabbit hole of like, oh, maybe they have creepy or perverted motives.
00:06:27.260 But I just think that it's this hyper progressive push that self-identity trumps everything.
00:06:33.000 So the parental rights sort of movement to them is somehow some violation of some like great
00:06:40.040 and profound movement in favor of like personal identity or whatever.
00:06:46.080 It's ridiculous.
00:06:47.020 And when you apply it to children, it does it is going to make a lot of people think that
00:06:51.000 you have creepy motives simply because you are trying to put your children in a position
00:06:56.180 where you're not allowed to know what's going on.
00:06:58.080 Like go up to anyone's parent, even go up to someone's like pet and say, can I take
00:07:02.140 away your pet for a day and just have them in a room with me for eight hours?
00:07:05.860 And if you ask what's going on, you know, you're not allowed to know.
00:07:08.720 And that's a little that's a violation of your pets or your child's, you know, rights
00:07:12.380 and freedoms and privacy.
00:07:13.580 That's obviously a little bit weird.
00:07:15.460 And the progressive left, because they're so, I think, out of touch with what the average
00:07:19.720 Canadian thinks because they cannot divorce their progressive goals from, you know, the 0.72
00:07:24.780 average goals and like priorities in people's lives, they think that simply wanting parents
00:07:30.160 to actually know what's happening is crazy and weird.
00:07:34.380 But whatever, I guess that's it for me today.
00:07:36.440 The left can keep ranting on Twitter.
00:07:39.040 I don't think they're going to make up.
00:07:40.680 They're not going to bolster their 15% support on this issue.
00:07:45.000 But whatever.
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00:08:01.600 And I'll see you guys next time.