Children are malleable, and for good reason. Their early years are meant to teach them important things, and not just basics like reading, writing, and arithmetic. Morals, respect, manners, and values are also pressed into the child's psyche at an early age so that they grow up to be good, productive, stable adults.
But this maleability is thirsted over by authoritarians and the immoral. Every dictator in history was very interested in seizing the education system to plant their own ideology into children to make them grow up to be obedient and loyal followers.
The transgender movement takes a similar route. Teach and normalize gender confusion and transgenderism, and the children will likely grow up to be, at best, accepting of the moment, or at worst, a part of the movement themselves. At the core of this is a sick perversion that seeks to display sexuality to children and, of course, sexualize children themselves, and this is one of the reasons the transgender movement has seen such a strong push against it in recent years.
This includes a large cancellation effort against Netflix, which is openly pushing gender confusion on children through its children's programming. As my colleague Katie Jerkovich reported earlier in October, the boycott effort kicked off in earnest after people began rolling out clips that featured LGBTQ+ concepts, characters, and storylines on shows like "Dead End: Paranormal Park" and "Coco Melon."
Read: Netflix Is Having a No-Good, Horrible, Very Bad Week Amid Customer Cancellations
The message to Netflix is clear: There's a line you don't cross, and you're crossing it.
The response from Netflix? They seem to think that if you're that mad, then they're doing their job.
“If we’re doing it right, there’s something on the service where every one of us … probably thinks is not great, or they don’t like, or maybe they think it’s harmful,” Netflix Co-CEO Greg Peters told Bloomberg. “And frankly, if we don’t have that, we’re actually not doing our job.”
This was part of a wider conversation during the Bloomberg Screentime conference, but Peters ultimately seems to believe that they don't serve just Western audiences, but a global audience, and that there is going to be something for everyone, and some of that content is going to offend people.
“We are in the business of entertaining the world,” he said. “Those people all do not think the same. They have different views of what their entertainment should be delivering to them.”
But where Peters is wrong is that this isn't about serving a global audience. This is about the health and well-being of children, and if there is a nation out there that believes that confusing children in this way is right, then they aren't a nation worth catering to.
We're at a point in time where we know, without a doubt, that transgenderism is harmful, especially to the youth. It causes depression, suicides, and division among friends, family, and communities. Experts in the field have been ringing the alarm for some time, and now even Western governments are moving away from the idea that transgenderism is something to promote, especially among children.
Continuing to push this on children is just as irresponsible and damaging as displaying porn to them.
Moreover, this isn't entertainment; this is mental conditioning dressed as entertainment. There's nothing educational about this. You're not teaching children anything useful. So what's the point if not the socio-political conditioning of a radical idea that is, frankly, losing goodwill in our society day after day?
Netflix does provide a myriad of content with a wide variety of things to choose from, but if it's displaying this to children, then this is the most notable thing it does. It has to stop. If it doesn't, then Netflix deserves to continue falling in its subscriber count. Abusing children should not be rewarded with money.
