Comments on: WorldNetDaily column compares GLSEN to Hitler’s youth

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[...] Such claims from the right-wing activists are not new, as Barber once said that “GLSEN tacitly advocates sexual abuse” and Reisman called GLSEN “a modern version of the Hitler Youth.” [...]

By: Warren

Warren — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:16:42 +0000

@Debbie Thurman:

There is one of those connections I was talking about. Still no Nazis but a concern nonetheless.

By: Debbie Thurman

Debbie Thurman — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:11:08 +0000

It is interesting that Kevin Jennings wrote the foreword and Bill Ayers wrote a glowing cover endorsement for “Queering Elementary Education: Advancing the Dialogue about Sexualities and Schooling” by William J. Letts IV and James T. Sears. Any journalist worth his salt would want to explore that academic connection.

By: David Blakeslee

David Blakeslee — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:51:22 +0000

@WND

Rather than doing thorough work creating the links in a multistory edition…they have adopted the glib, sarcastic and cynical style; to their discredit.

If people are made in God’s image, they are capable of being thoughtfully persuaded…living out our faith means we treat our readers with respect.

If they can’t be persuaded, they can be loved…and that is our calling.

WND just mimics, in style, the secular media.

By: David Blakeslee

David Blakeslee — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:46:19 +0000

@ W and D

Kinsey’s work and the myth of the “native man” in other social science studies seems pivotal.

By: David Blakeslee

David Blakeslee — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:45:14 +0000

@Warren and Debbie,

There is much reasonable work to do making these linkages to a deconstructionist dogma which entered higher education after WWII.

Sarcasm and cynicism seem to be related tools to aid in deconstruction of traditional values viewed as coercive and exploitative of minorities.

The appropriation of the animal model of man as well as the Freudian view of the unconscious and religion seem to be at the foundation.

By: David Blakeslee

David Blakeslee — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:41:41 +0000

Bullying is a global student issue…whether mental illness, poverty, feminized boys or just awkwardness…

See “lord of the flies.”

For WND to see this issue in such a constricted and sarcastic way is unchristian.

By: Jayuck

Jayuck — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:29:05 +0000

I agree Zoe – WND is about yellow journalism

By: Warren

Warren — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:20:48 +0000

To be academically honest, one must do more than show similarity of ideas or methods to make a link between groups. There is much to dislike about the NEA and especially the early actions of GLSEN but they cannot be linked to other groups without some historical evidence of an actual linkage. Did Kevin Jennings study with Bill Ayers? Has anyone at GLSEN invoked Ayers work? I don’t know the answers to these questions (and nothing I’ve seen supports it) but this is what one would need to show before an argument of linkage would be taken seriously as scholarship.

By: Debbie Thurman

Debbie Thurman — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:06:07 +0000

Reisman and WND might have made a more cogent argument assessing the Marxist influence of the Nazi-fleeing German Institute of Social Research (that chose Columbia University as its home) on teachers’ colleges, hence public education, and Bill Ayers’ not-so-subtle influence on teaching curriculum and the “queering” of education. Very easily substantiated. Their anti-authoritarian, anti-parents’ rights fingerprints are all over public education today. GLSEN and the NEA have plenty to answer for. Defending them usually requires lots of mental gymnastics. WND probably has more influence with their books these days, anyway.