They’re Still Coming After the Kids | The American Spectator

At the current political moment, American conservatives are in a rather good mood.

Yes, their enemies wish them dead, but that can be explained by the fact that they’re racking up cultural and political victories. In just the last few weeks, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has managed to get the military shaved and back into the gym, President Donald Trump seems well on his way to restoring order in our cities, and the Democrats’ government shutdown (arguably a desperate bid to raise their abysmal ratings) may just result in the firing of extraneous federal employees — a popular Trump campaign promise. (READ MORE: Yes, Virginia, Jay Jones Is Evil)

And yet, American leftists don’t seem to have gotten the memo.

At the end of last week, Netflix went viral after Elon Musk decided to launch a campaign to cancel the entertainment platform for pushing LGBTQ themes in its children’s content. We’re talking shows like Dead End: Paranormal Park, in which a trans-identifying teenager deals with his angst at a haunted theme park, or a recent episode of The Baby-Sitters Club, in which kids learn that the only time you should argue with a medical professional is when he misgenders a trans patient (as though any medical professional would do that in our day and age). Then, of course, there’s CoComelon and CoComelon Lane, which both feature a cross-dressing toddler dancing for his two gay “dads” (nothing vaguely pedophilic about that, of course).

While these specific examples generated an internet storm large enough to get “Cancel Netflix” trending on Google, they weren’t exactly breaking news. Most of us knew (or at least suspected) that Netflix was still pushing these kinds of themes on our kids — and it’s not the only one.

Popular shows like Peppa Pig (a British production available on Netflix and YouTube Kids) and Bluey also subtly push LGBTQ themes on the toddlers who watch them. One of Peppa Pig’s classmates talks about living with “my mommy and my other mommy” while drawing pictures in a kindergarten class. Meanwhile, Bluey subtly introduces a character’s “mums” in its Season 3 finale.

Of course, the indoctrination doesn’t just happen on television; it’s still taking place in our schools. The New Braunfels school district in Texas (located some 30 miles outside San Antonio) conveniently lists the books in their school libraries in an online database. A recent search for “LGBTQ” pulled more than 40 results at one middle school library, while a search for books on “racism” landed more than 80. (READ MORE: Battling the Hollywood Hydra)

One might point out that public opinion on these matters has shifted suddenly. In 2020, schools and corporations were bullied into pushing all sorts of radical ideologies — most of them employed people who believed that touting “acceptance” and “tolerance” to audiences of all ages (but most especially to children) was integral to building a better and happier world. Then, all of a sudden, those same companies were boycotted, and those schools found themselves under fire from angry parents who showed up at school board meetings. This year’s Pride festivities notably lacked the corporate funding and enthusiasm that LGBTQ activists (and most conservatives) thought were a given. (RELATED: Our Two Main Parties Are Non-Christian but Only One Is Demonic)

How is an organization supposed to keep up with rapidly changing public opinion?

Take, for instance, the case of PBS Kids, Nickelodeon, or Netflix. All of these entertainment companies spent years building massive libraries of content for their subscribers. The aforementioned problematic episodes of shows like CoComelon and Bluey came out in early 2024 — before the shift away from shoving radical ideologies down our children’s throats was a well-established fact. How exactly were they supposed to predict that, in just over a year, those same episodes would drive their customers to cancel their subscriptions en masse?

The solution these companies seem to have landed on is to hope that parents will simply forget that those problematic episodes ever existed in the first place — after all, taking them down would probably just make the other side of the aisle furious. That’s a strategy that simply can’t be allowed to work.

If we are truly serious about protecting our children from indoctrination in bizarre ideologies that deny basic realities, we have to wash every trace of that ideology from shows, libraries, and classrooms with a vengeance. Netflix will need to be boycotted and made a public spectacle until it removes its offensive content. Disney will need to be pressured until it produces shows aligned with reality and steeped in traditional values.

Until we do, ideological ghosts of the past will continue to teach our children that Jane can become Joe and that it’s totally normal to have two mommies — and that’s hardly the way to win the culture war.

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