{"id":552832,"date":"2021-06-04T15:36:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T19:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=552832"},"modified":"2021-06-04T15:36:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T19:36:32","slug":"we-shouldnt-let-the-blues-clues-episode-be-just-another-passing-cultural-outrage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-shouldnt-let-the-blues-clues-episode-be-just-another-passing-cultural-outrage\/","title":{"rendered":"We Shouldn\u2019t Let the Blue\u2019s Clues Episode Be Just Another Passing Cultural Outrage"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwe-shouldnt-let-the-blues-clues-episode-be-just-another-passing-cultural-outrage%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=552832&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-51093946.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>To those not paying attention, a recent Blue\u2019s Clues<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/childrens-show-blues-clues-features-pride-parade-cartoon-drag-queen-children-explaining-pride-flags\"><span>episode<\/span><\/a><span> featuring a sing-along led by a drag queen was yet another entry in the growing trend of networks sneaking sly LGBTQ references into programming for children so young, they haven\u2019t even entered kindergarten yet. Doc McStuffins has lesbian dollies. PBS\u2019s Arthur has a gay teacher. Male celebrity RuPaul plays a female character on Bubble Guppies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But the Blue\u2019s Clues Pride parade was something else. In the midst of a culture war that the Right has been losing for decades, this was a blitz attack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the video, Andrew Levitt (stage name Nina West) wears a rainbow-hued gown with a double-heart bodice (more on that in a minute) and sings about \u201cace, pan, and bi\u201d animals to the beloved nursery school tune, \u201cThe Ants Go Marching.\u201d As the parade rolls on, colorful, cuddly creatures including \u201cnon-binary\u201d dolphins and<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/blues-clues-pride-beaver-top-scars\/\"><span>post-operative<\/span><\/a><span> beavers wave merrily from the screen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Eventually, we see <\/span><i><span>groups<\/span><\/i><span> of adult animals\u2014a \u201cfamily of kings and queens\u201d\u2014who \u201clove each other so proudly\u201d go marching by. \u201cCome join the fun!\u201d Leavitt cries to the two- to five-year-old target audience. But what, exactly, are the children being invited to do?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Dr. Debra Soh, sexual neuroscientist and author of \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/End-Gender-Debunking-Identity-Society\/dp\/1982132515\"><span>The End of Gender<\/span><\/a><span>,\u201d tells me kids the age of the Blue\u2019s Clues\u2019 demographic don\u2019t have an accurate conception of gender. Before around six-years-old, she says, \u201cthey will believe that a person\u2019s hairstyle or clothing determines whether they are male or female. For example, a child will believe that a little boy who puts on a dress has turned into a girl.\u201d (Of course, kids are hardly alone in that confusion these days. Plenty of adults now believe it too \u2026 )<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Soh says small children are highly suggestible, and videos like the Blue\u2019s Clues parade encourage them to question their gender. \u201c[It] teaches them that any gender atypicality or discomfort in their bodies means they should consider transitioning or that they are a third gender.\u201d This kind of indoctrination, she explains, can spark the social contagion we are already witnessing: \u201cCountless young adults, particularly women, [are] transitioning and then de-transitioning at a rapid rate. Being exposed to these ideas through social media, entertainment, and education will likely lead to more young people unfortunately falling into this trend.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>So we\u2019re left with the obvious question \u2014 why is network Nick Jr. (note the <\/span><i><span>junior<\/span><\/i><span>) and its parent company Nickelodeon introducing kids to concepts about sexuality and sexual identity that are far beyond their capacity to understand?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The first explanation, while shameful, is less abhorrent than the second. The company, joined by millions of progressive parents eager to garner approval from the gods of this age, is sacrificing children\u2019s innocence and mental health on the altar of social respectability.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>We might all wish we lived in a world where we didn\u2019t need to mention the second explanation, but as the video itself proves, we have reached a point where we can no longer ignore it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Nickelodeon<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/popculture.com\/tv-shows\/news\/everything-coming-netflix-hbo-max-disney-plus-hulu-peacock-june-2021\/\"><span>revealed<\/span><\/a><span> to multiple news outlets it consulted with Lindz Amer, an LGBTQ activist dubbed \u201cthe queer Mister Rogers,\u201d to pack the episode chock-full of symbols. Some are obvious \u2014 the animals carry flags representing every possible adult sexual desire, while Leavitt holds a microphone sporting a black power fist. Others, including clothing in colors that represent pansexuality and the beaver\u2019s aforementioned mastectomy scars, have a more subtle, blink-and-you\u2019ll-miss-it quality. Others are debatable but, given the shockingly inappropriate nature of the video, merit discussion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In 2016, the<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3560069\/The-symbols-pedophiles-use-signal-sordid-sexual-preferences-social-media.html\"><span>Daily Mail<\/span><\/a><span> published a story on symbols the FBI says pedophiles use to signal their sexual preferences. Second on the list is a small heart placed within a larger heart known as the \u201cGirlLover logo.\u201d Some eagle-eyed folks on social media, including Babylon Bee Managing Editor Joel Berry,<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoelWBerry\/status\/1398977939409154049?s=20\"><span>pointed out<\/span><\/a><span> the image\u2019s similarity to the heart-within-a-heart bodice Leavitt\u2019s drag queen character is wearing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Could the emblem have been included inadvertently, its resemblance to the FBI-identified logo a matter of coincidence? Of course. But given the heavy symbology throughout the rest of the video and its aggressive subtext of group sex, the Blues Clue\u2019s team isn\u2019t exactly making a strong argument why they deserve the benefit of the doubt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As American society shrugs off the last vestiges of the religious faith that provided guardrails to earlier generations, history shows us that without that restraining moral hand, adult-child sex can become a perfectly accepted practice.\u00a0 In ancient pagan Rome and Greece, pederasty was so widespread among the upper classes it was celebrated in artwork like the<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Warren_Cup#Imagery\"><span>Warren Cup<\/span><\/a><span>. In modern day Afghanistan,<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geopoliticalmonitor.com\/shame-and-silence-bacha-bazi-in-afghanistan\/\"><span>Bacha Bazi<\/span><\/a><span> \u2014 where wealthy older men dress boys up as girls and exploit them as sex slaves \u2014 is rampant. Are we really na\u00efve enough to believe that we\u2019re immune from this kind of evil?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Just this week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/parents-at-elite-nyc-private-school-outraged-over-graphic-sex-ed-videos-shown-to-first-graders\">The Daily Wire<\/a><\/span> <span>reported<\/span><span> on a director of health at an elite private school showing first graders videos about masturbation. Just this year, a transgender activist behind \u201cDrag Queen Story Hour\u201d was<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/after-latest-arrest-its-clear-that-drag-queen-story-hour-is-a-haven-for-child-predators\"><span>arrested<\/span><\/a><span> on charges of child pornography, something that came after a number of the other drag queens in the organization were revealed to be convicted sex offenders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>We cannot afford to be polite anymore and pretend that we don\u2019t understand why a show for preschoolers would want them to \u201cjoin the fun\u201d of celebrating transgenderism, pansexuality, and polyamory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As Ben Shapiro<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/kelloggs-new-cereal-encourages-kids-to-select-their-preferred-pronouns\"><span>reported<\/span><\/a><span> in 2015, the Left has begun openly signaling intentions to mainstream pedophilia. But then, these arguments were being hashed out in medical journals, and semi-legitimate left-wing news outlets like Salon. Now, they\u2019re hitting your child\u2019s favorite channels and<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/kelloggs-new-cereal-encourages-kids-to-select-their-preferred-pronouns\"><span>cereal boxes<\/span><\/a><span> in glaring technicolor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>If there was any doubt left, the Blue\u2019s Clues episode proved the hard Left has a yawning, voracious appetite for the innocence of children that the soft Left and mushy middle will amiably feed so long as no one calls them a bigot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>At some point, if there is to be any hope for a future that does not leave our children at the mercy of adult sexual desires, we must declare a tipping point and refuse to move on to the next stop on the outrage cycle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To those not paying attention, a recent Blue\u2019s Clues episode featuring a sing-along led by a drag queen was yet another entry in the growing trend of networks sneaking sly &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279254,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-51093946.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"We Shouldn\u2019t Let the Blue\u2019s Clues Episode Be Just Another Passing Cultural Outrage","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-51093946.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"We Shouldn\u2019t Let the Blue\u2019s Clues Episode Be Just Another Passing Cultural Outrage","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}