The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - December 06, 2023


The Media can't turn Canadians against Parental Rights

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7 minutes

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1,440

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64

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Parental rights are still wildly popular in the province of Saskatchewan, despite the deluge of legacy media coverage trying to sow doubt or make people scared that somehow parental rights actually mean child abuse. It's completely ridiculous. Everyone knows that parents like their kids, and no one who is an abuser cares about the parental rights movement. Someone who is abusing a child was not waiting for the legislation in order to start doing so.

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00:00:00.000 Well, another day, another PR failure for the anti-parental rights movement.
00:00:05.000 As a new poll came out in the province of Saskatchewan, where they have officially passed parental rights protections, showing that parental rights are still wildly popular in the province, despite the deluge of legacy media coverage, trying to sow doubt or make people scared that somehow parental rights actually mean child abuse. 0.82
00:00:22.520 It's completely ridiculous. Everyone knows that parents like their kids and no one who is an abuser cares about the parental rights movement.
00:00:29.580 Someone who's abusing a child was not waiting for the parental rights movement in order to start doing so.
00:00:36.240 The parental rights movement is obviously anti-abuse, and much of the concern of parents is about the fact that they don't like the idea that certain people in schools were not wanting there to be full transparency of what goes on in the classroom with their kids.
00:00:49.700 Anyways, here's the poll. I believe it's from Main Street. It just got leaked out today.
00:00:54.320 And it shows that right now the parental rights issue polls at 55%.
00:01:00.240 The specific question read,
00:01:02.060 The Saskatchewan government passed a bill in October that requires school divisions to seek parental consent if a student younger than 16 wants to be referred to by pronouns or a name at school other than the one they are registered as.
00:01:14.340 It's perfectly legitimate. It's not even all the way up to those in grade 12.
00:01:18.920 It's just those under the age of 16. Very moderate policy.
00:01:23.480 It's ensuring that parents actually can feel confident, have peace of mind that they know what goes on in the classroom.
00:01:29.840 And again, it's not because everyone is skeptical of what every teacher is doing.
00:01:33.300 It's just because obviously whenever you make that break between parents and their child in terms of information that they're allowed to have, you're going to get a lot of parents concerned.
00:01:43.340 And I find what the left has been doing is that they're doing this weird inversion because at the end of the day, either a parent or some other individual needs final authority over their child.
00:01:52.820 And what the left is doing is that by arguing against parental rights, they're arguing in favor of them that parents are actually supposed to be held accountable by the schools, that the schools effectively should have always more power than the parents.
00:02:06.360 And in doing so, to try and flip this relationship, they've been making deeply dishonest arguments, trying to fearmonger against the concept of parental rights as if it's synonymous with the concept of child abuse,
00:02:19.880 as if there isn't already laws against child abuse and anyone who's following the parental rights movement would very likely call the police if they knew a child was being abused.
00:02:29.900 It has nothing to do with that. It's all about content in the classroom, what's being taught and parents being kept in the know.
00:02:37.060 But although some people have pointed out on social media that this 55% number that the parental rights movement has achieved in Saskatchewan is down from what it was a few months ago,
00:02:48.740 what I would point out is, one, each polling company has a slightly different polling method,
00:02:53.040 so each of them is going to have a little bit of a different outcome on these issues.
00:02:57.060 And also, remember that this 55% result is after months of the media fearmongering.
00:03:03.720 It is crazy that it's held up this well.
00:03:05.900 The anti-parental rights group, the opposed and strongly opposed in this poll, is only at 39%.
00:03:12.120 That's not fantastic.
00:03:13.600 The left goes after the concept of the Alberta pension plan in Alberta for pulling even a little bit better than the anti-parental rights sort of side of this issue is.
00:03:24.040 Yet this is somehow being seen as a big loss for the Saskatchewan party because parental rights have become slightly less popular after the media lied about it for months.
00:03:33.380 But look at these headlines that you're seeing all over the news about Saskatchewan.
00:03:37.080 It's a lot of the stuff, although some of the headlines are a little bit more neutral, when you read the article's content, it's all about quoting supposed experts and advocates that are claiming that this law could be deeply dangerous based on fringe hypotheticals that will never really happen in real life.
00:03:53.860 But you get these article headlines for the CBC, Regina Leader Post, Star Phoenix, Global News, as well as, I forget, I can't see the top one because my recording bar is blocking it.
00:04:06.760 But, you know, the Calgary Herald, Regina Leader Post, again, there's tons of articles coming out basically saying, telling people that if you're a good person, if you sympathize with the LGBTQ community, you must want to get, like, defeat this parental rights bill.
00:04:21.280 No one in their right mind actually thinks parental rights is going to harm a child, but some people can be tricked for a time that this is somehow a radical, crazy proposal being made, rather than it's just enshrining the way that the parent-child-school relationship has always worked for basically all throughout human history.
00:04:40.980 And now only advocates in the past 10 years have been trying to sort of tinker with who has more power in the relationship between the three.
00:04:49.500 So this isn't bad at all.
00:04:51.620 And I guarantee over the next four or five months, this, if they repull this issue, it's going to probably bounce back with a lot more people in favor of parental rights, realizing the sky didn't fall when they made sure that parents have transparency around the classroom involving what their kid identifies as and being able to stay informed.
00:05:09.940 Again, the creepiest notion in the world is that another adult gets to have secrets with your kids about, you know, their, I guess, their gender and sexual identity at school.
00:05:19.900 That's a bit odd.
00:05:20.960 I'm not accusing anyone specific of anything.
00:05:23.040 It's more so that you just don't create this strange barrier between a child and their parent where they sort of have one kind of, you know, adult-child relationship with one individual at school, and then they have another one with their own parents at home.
00:05:38.140 It's just not appropriate, and everyone knows that parents should be always kept in the authority position over their child.
00:05:44.840 You don't start kind of messing with that dynamic and trying to do this power-sharing, authority-sharing play, like with this game between, like, the schools and parents.
00:05:55.460 When you drop your kids off at school, the expectation shouldn't be that the school basically now owns your kid until you pick them up at the end of the day.
00:06:02.280 That's, again, deeply inappropriate and just an obtuse way of doing things.
00:06:06.580 This is why, though, I think a lot more provinces should consider the parental rights movement as, like, a legitimate thing that they should be following.
00:06:15.040 They should be passing legislation to protect parental rights.
00:06:17.700 They should be trying to cut things out of the curriculum that are not appropriate for kids at certain age levels to be reading about or learning about.
00:06:27.540 It's really just a winning issue.
00:06:29.140 Saskatchewan and New Brunswick have proven that if you just walk towards the fire and ignore all the media slings and arrows and all the activists accusing you of phantom bigotry, you will win at the end of the day.
00:06:42.200 Anyways, that's it for me today.
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00:07:30.200 But other than that, I'll let everyone go today and I'll probably be back later on with another video.