Like many Millennials, I grew up watching what was arguably the peak of children's television. Our generation had both the classics and the new school, with "Thundercats" and "Voltron" backing right up against "Rocko's Modern Life" and "Power Rangers." Like Gen X, we Millennials also had our science shows. Our "Mr. Wizard" was "Beakman's World" and, of course, "Bill Nye the Science Guy."
At the time of my youth, Nye was actually a solid entertainer and educator. He wasn't yet the political influencer he would try to become; he stuck to basic science that a kid would find in his basic textbooks, but presented in a way more fun and memorable way.
Of course, as you're more than likely well aware now, Nye would go on to become an ideologically driven hack like many celebrities, but what made Nye worse than most of the others was that he carried over a lot of goodwill and fond memories from my generation. This, sadly, made a lot of adults take him seriously when they really shouldn't have.
Nye would go on to suggest that climate deniers should be jailed and that transgenderism was a real thing, and he waved the flag of "science" over his head while he did it. If you were at least a little in on the nature of leftist causes, you would've known that Nye had traded in his integrity for back pats from the elite, but not everyone is. In fact, most people aren't. Nye made many people from my generation comfortable with the idea that the world was, in fact, going to die from climate change and that men absolutely could be women.
Of course, I think this might've been the turning point where people quietly backed away.
The point is, Nye had a backdoor into many a heart and mind. He had managed to work his way in legitimately, with the permission of parents, because he was educational and entertaining, a combo parents typically love for their children and voluntarily plop them down in front of a television to consume. These children grew up thinking he was still a man who properly represented science, and thus his unscientific opinions were considered solid.
I know that, because the first time I wrote about rejecting Nye as a scientific mind, I recieved so much pushback that I couldn't keep track of the responses.
It's a lesson I took with me into fatherhood.
When I first heard about Ms. Rachel years ago, I put her on television to entertain my baby while I worked or did chores. I'd heard her videos actually took child psychology into account during their creation, and that kids, even babies, could absorb what she was doing to a degree because of how she talked to them. Her voice was grating, but my son seemed to zone in on her, and over time, it was clear he was picking up on things.
But this is the age of the internet, and soon, Rachel Accurso, the woman behind the smiling baby talker, began to reveal herself more and more. She was still putting on this idea that she was a wholesome educator with a love of children and a cheery song in her pocket, but she was also presenting some characters on her videos that gave me pause. At first, I tried to shrug it off. So long as she didn't promote anything in her videos, I was fine.
But then the hits just kept on coming. One of the characters was a "non-binary" guitarist who would be a promotional feature during a transgender "family event," which is more like a recruitment fair for children than entertainment and fun. She once invited Dylan Mulvaney to appear in a YouTube video with her, and loves to celebrate Pride Month every year, but doesn't seem too concerned with other important days like those dedicated to our armed service members, many of whom are the parents of children who will never see their fathers again. I don't know where her sympathy is for them.
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Then, as Israel's war with Hamas kicked up, Ms. Rachel expressed a lot of sympathy for the kids in Gaza, but didn't seem to care all that much about the ones in Israel. Only when she was called out did she deem to mention them. Still, she assured us that she hates antisemitism.
Of course, she would continue to demonstrate a preference for people who don't seem to think too highly of Jewish people and are overtly in love with the Palestinian cause. She appeared with Zohran Mamdani to promote universal child healthcare.
Zohran Mamdani and kids YouTuber Ms. Rachel sing to children to promote universal child care.
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And then the big slip-up finally happened. Accurso "accidentally" liked a post from a commenter that said they needed to get all the "Jews out of NYC." Ms. Rachel said she was trying to delete it and accidentally clicked the like button, but it stayed liked long enough for someone to catch it. Moreover, as my colleague Bonchie explains, the method to delete a comment is not near the like button.
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I think it's great that many Americans caught Accurso's spin-out now and not decades later, like Nye, but I think this does allow us to act preemptively.
Children should not be exposed to Ms. Rachel, even if her content remains innocent, because Accurso is ultimately a political activist wearing a very convincing child entertainer mask. She spends more time speaking out about issues in her private life than she should, and it's pretty clear that she, like Nye, is very interested in being a part of the "in-crowd."
She wants the Netflix deals, the toy brands, and everything else that comes with that approval.
And your child shouldn't get the warm fuzzies from someone like that. When they grow up, they could take them far more seriously than they should. Best to chop the head off that snake now.
