• ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 hours ago

    I just find it fascinating as an autistic person

    that I’ve been a Boy Scout and had people tell me to my face that they didn’t support the organization because ‘they don’t support gay members’

    And now this same organization is having connections cut with the state because it doesn’t support America’s ‘core values’

    Did SA get way more liberal over the last decade? Or is this more culture war bs

    At this point how am I supposed to grow up, or how is my rapidly becoming more hypothetical offspring supposed to grow up in a reality where every social institution is both patterned off the Hitler Jugend, but also a front for commie toddler drag story hour?

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      11 hours ago

      Scouting lets queer kids and even girls in now. If they got the while pedophilia problem under control I’d be a huge supporter. It’s good for kids to go camping and learn outdoor skills, and all kids deserve the right to do so.

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        9 hours ago

        Not refuting your point, but I’m feeling some cognitive dissonance

        “[America] lets queer kids and even girls in now. If they got the while [mental health crisis] under control I’d be a huge supporter. It’s good for kids to go camping and learn outdoor skills, and all kids deserve the right to do so.”

        Just, if we’re talking about an issue we’ve barely identified, let alone have a plan to fix, might as well bust out the spotlight