Just imagine for a moment if your children’s school sent out a newsletter, in which they informed you and other parents that they were going to teach your kids about astrology and zodiac star signs as a new school subject.
Imagine if they said that teachers would be spending hours a day educating your kids about how they shouldn’t marry a Gemini if they’re a Sagittarius, because they would have bad luck during the Vernal Equinox. So, total delusional crap, in other words. And imagine that all of this was being taught to your impressionable young kids as if it was hard science.
Now, what would your reaction be as a parent, in that hypothetical scenario? Would you, for example, complain? Would you make a fuss? Would you insist that your children shouldn’t be taught falsehoods by authority figures?
Well, you better not complain, because in that scenario, you would be creating what the government calls a “culture war.” By objecting to your kids being taught garbage, you are creating a conflict, and you are the problem apparently. You should instead allow ideologues with unhinged, unscientific beliefs to railroad your children with their personal brand of deranged propaganda, and not utter so much as a word of objection.
Now, luckily, nobody in Ireland is proposing teaching zodiac nonsense in schools. And thank God for that. But that doesn’t mean that parents are happy with everything that’s on the school curriculum.
Many parents, for example, object to claims like that of Fine Gael Senator Regina Doherty that there are, quote, “about 9 genders.” It could be 8, it could be 10. But it’s a lot more than 2 so far as the leader of the Seanad is concerned.
WATCH: Fine Gael Senator Regina Doherty says there are 9 genders, and that women shouldn’t worry about biological males in changing rooms because men can already attack women everywhere else in society. @Ben_Scallan reacts.#gripthttps://t.co/3XwdZmVQeE
— gript (@griptmedia) June 23, 2022
Parents object to a bill put forward by Fianna Fáil last week which would see children being taught about “queer” and Native American “two spirit” shaman gender identities.
Fianna Fáil have put forward a new bill seeking to include “LGBTQU+” ideology in primary school sex education, including “queer” and Native American religious “two-spirit” shaman identities.#gripthttps://t.co/ru5zhmdo0D
— gript (@griptmedia) November 25, 2022
Parents don’t want their children taught about pornography as part of the school curriculum, which was put forward by Fianna Fáil Education Minister Norma Foley.
Children will be taught about porn at Junior Cert as sex ed curriculum is modernised for first time in 20 yearshttps://t.co/C7mTrZ5Iab
— Irish Daily Mirror (@IrishMirror) July 19, 2022
But if you ask Fine Gael, you are the problem for objecting to any of this. As Alan Farrell TD said in a statement last week:
“This is something that we have seen in other jurisdictions in Europe and further afield, where groups with extreme views are gaining political and social influence. I do not believe that the vast majority of Irish people support these views in any way. However, we cannot tell ourselves that it cannot happen here.”
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“Nobody in Ireland is served by the divisive rhetoric peddled by extreme groups, who prey on people’s insecurities. We must all be champions of progress and address the problems we face by working together, not pitting individuals against one another.”
So, apparently “extreme groups” are attempting to “import” culture wars into Ireland around issues like gender, immigration and sex ed
Now, as it happens, I actually agree with Alan Farrell on this. Every word he said there is correct. There are extreme groups driving cultural conflict in Ireland. They’re called Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and the Green Party.
For example, what is more extreme than wanting to teach preschool students stories about males crossdressing, wearing lipstick and girls’ clothes? That is an official recommendation of Ireland’s national curriculum body, as can be found in the article below.
An officially recommended reading list for schools, approved by Roderic O’Gorman, advises teaching boys as young as 2 that they can wear lipstick, makeup and girls’ clothes.#gripthttps://t.co/0K8uJMoITb
— gript (@griptmedia) July 20, 2022
What is more extreme than taking biologically male prisoners with a history of violence against women and children, and putting them into a female prison population?
Male born transgender sex-offender moved to female prison in Limerick despite not having surgeryhttps://t.co/V0ihl9lOFy
— Irish Daily Mirror (@IrishMirror) September 12, 2019
What’s more extreme than airdropping so many asylum seekers into a town that you double its population overnight, all without consulting or informing local residents?
Small towns on the west coast of Ireland are struggling to cope with the influx of Ukrainian refugees with in some cases the population doubling in recent weeks https://t.co/n5PbYZoqlP
— The Times Ireland (@thetimesIE) April 16, 2022
These are the policies of an extremist lunatic. What percentage of Irish people would you say actually supports any of this? We know from polling how horrendously unpopular these moves are.
And yet apparently, if you object to any of this, you are the one who’s causing division. You are the one who is creating a “war” and a “conflict” within our culture. Not the people who are trying to radically transform society into a bizarro dystopia that most people find repugnant – it’s the people who complain that are the issue.
When politicians and journalists say they don’t want a “culture war,” what they mean is “We don’t want you to object to the insane things we are doing to your country and your community. Stop struggling so much while we ram our weird agenda that you never asked for up your arse sideways.”
That is, in fact, what the so-called “hate speech” law is about. It’s been said before, and should be said again: “hate speech” is just code for “speech that the government hates.” That’s all it has ever meant – censorship, censorship and more censorship. And that is why we have government politicians on the news threatening to use these laws against the public over legal, legitimate protests.
Minister of State James Browne (FF) says his Dept of Justice intends to use hate speech legislation to shut down opposition to asylum seekers being dumped in communities around the country. From TG pic.twitter.com/m4KbnXX4Hs
— Matt 🇬🇺🇮🇪 (@coachMattB77) November 25, 2022
It’s not the job of the public to argue for why they should want society to stay the way it’s always been. Joe Bloggs doesn’t have to defend the view that there are only two genders, which has been the universally agreed reality since the dawn of human history. People in Irish towns and villages don’t have to explain why they don’t want their populations doubled overnight due to a sudden surge in migrants.
It is, actually, the government who has to explain itself, and justify why these radical policies need to be put in place. They have to explain why our children need to be taught about pornography and two-spirit tribal identities. And if the public is not convinced by the government’s explanation, then ordinary people are not “extreme” or creating conflict – the government is.
There are absolutely extremists dividing our society, and they’re sitting openly in Leinster House.