#woke indoctrination

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

[ Source: https://doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12503 ]

Transformative tales: The role of story videos on children's reasoning about transgender identities

Abstract

The current study explored whether positive contact through stories could influence how young children think about transgender identities and gender in general. A total of 174 children ages 5–6 and 9–10 were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: Jazz (participants watched a video regarding a transgender child named Jazz), Blue (participants watched a video regarding a marker that looked red on the outside but inside was really blue) and control (no video). Both videos described the main character as feeling different inside than outside, and their social transition to their preferred identity; researcher scaffolding supported the video messages. Children who viewed the Jazz video had: (a) greater understanding of transgender identities and (b) no overall differences in gender essentialism, but (c) lower gender essentialism on three specific measures (gender immutability, innate toy behaviours and innate preferences). Also, gender essentialism was lower in older versus younger children. In this study, a direct, realistic story was the only effective means of teaching children about transgender identities and reducing belief in gender immutability. Thus, stories can be a way to teach children about the social world and change essentialist beliefs, but the impact may be limited and greatly affected by features of the story.

Catechism, a manual of religious instruction usually arranged in the form of questions and answers used to instruct the young, to win converts, and to testify to the faith.

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If "gender" is not "immutable," why are we irreversibly medicalizing kids?

There are still some who insist this literally isn't happening and it's some QAnon-style paranoid conspiracy. Even though activists masquerading as "researchers" and "academics" are proudly and enthusiastically bragging about what they're doing.

Of course, when it becomes undeniable, the pivot comes swiftly: "It's good actually. It's just about teaching kids to be kind. Only bigots would oppose it."

You shouldn't be any more comfortable with indoctrinating kids with genderist faith - on the basis of teaching kids to be "kind" - than you are with indoctrinating kids with Xian faith - on the basis of teaching kids to be "good."

[jackass-democrats]

Keep the woke democrats safe.

[amygdalae]

My archeology prof has gone on multiple tangents about how stupid gender reveal parties are ("they aren't gender reveal parties, they're sex reveal parties, and that's stupid) and spent a good chunk of a lecture going into how gender is a cultural/social construct and gender does not equal sex and neither gender nor sex are anywhere near as binary as western norms have us believe. And also she's beautiful. Just bragging

[undergradhist]

[hierophant-meme]

JiGoe is real. You can fact-check me all u want, but I was literally there. I was the steering wheel in the Fiat 🙄

[nocentis]

Possession & Indoctrination

╳┆Possession Link is a magic somewhat similar to Sensory Link. It is a dark magic often used to manipulate and control its target. Unlike Sensory Link, the spell only affects one person at a time—the receiver. It can isolate and strengthen a specific group of emotions of the user's choice. It can also be used pseudo-telepathically, disguising the user's voice and allowing them to be heard only by the receiver.

The link feeds off of its host's magic energy, meaning the user does not need to constantly expend magic to sustain the link.

╳┆Initially, Ultear’s Possession Link amplified Jellal’s preexisting emotions of hatred, anger, and helplessness. This influx of raw emotion allowed him to access his magic energy for the first time. At the same time, he began to hear the “Ghost of Zeref” promising him true freedom in the form of Heaven.

Jellal opened himself up to the Possession Link, which strengthened its initial effects. Hatred manifest coupled with a magic that severely lowered any remaining inhibitions resulted in a radical shift in both personality and morality. From there, Jellal carried out what he believed to be Zeref’s will by sending Erza away, trapping & manipulating the others, and spending the next eight years completing the R-System.

The Possession Link remained mostly dormant after its initial conception, only serving to stoke those same feelings of resentment and obsession that would keep him focused on the tower’s construction. If ever his mind should stray, if ever he should doubt his “divine mission”, the voice of “Zeref” would whisper to him again, coaching him to continue and promising that Heaven awaited himself and his “friends”. The link served as a tool to keep him focused & reinforce indoctrination, but it did not have omnipotent control over his actions.

When Wendy pulled Jellal from his comatose state, the Possession Link was severed. Those emotions that completely engrossed him for so long were still present, but they weren’t anywhere near as intense. They were manageable.

[amemoryofwot]

I do have to laugh a little when prominent and vocal WoT show critics have garbage views in general

[steevejr]

i literally don't understand how transphobia is a thing. like what does this have to do with you. huh. like i get anti gun control--ok you dont want to give up your gun. but what does someone else's deal have ANYTHING to do with you........... the mental gymnastics and justifications............. i hope all anti-trans politicians a very happy shoot yourself in the head (with a watergun for summer fun!!!!!!)

[devoteyrheart]

some rando: annie is a psycho and a sadist

me thinking abt how reiner is the one who ordered annie to take off marco's odm gear and that annie not only hesitated but was horrified and she only started to remove the gear after she was reminded of her mission and how much she wanted to return home to her father: ???????????????? ok

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Madeleine Rowley

Published: Jun 18, 2024

Mandatory ideological training has now come to the drugstore. In California, pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, in order to keep their license, must study the latest in gender identity, colonialism, and white privilege. Such “cultural competency” courses are required by a state law that went into effect this year.

When the bill was introduced, Democratic Assemblyman Christopher Ward, the lead sponsor, said that the continuing education class would help “ensure pharmacists are looking out for the well-being of LGBTQ+ individuals.” 

Like many licensed professionals, pharmacists are required to take continuing education courses, usually with titles like “Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder (COPD)” and “Trimming Trends: Unveiling the Latest in Weight Management Guidelines.” Though this new training requires only an hour of the pharmacist’s time every two years, it’s another demonstration of compelling people to passively accept dubious assertions and assumptions, or risk losing their livelihoods.

One such course, titled Caring for All: The Pharmacy Professional’s Role in LGBTQ+ Health and Equity comes from the California Pharmacists Association (CPhA). The outline, obtained by The Free Press, features many charts that are hard to square with the duties of a pharmacist. There is a chart illustrating many “systems of oppression.” These include “sexism,” “cis-sexism,” “heterosexism,” and “adultism.” 

Another chart describes “effects of colonialism and colonization on pre-colonial ways of being.” It states: “Racism creates race: otherness and whiteness.” Some of the pre-colonial ways of being pharmacists are taught include “two-spirit,” the term used by Native Americans to describe someone who has “both a masculine and feminine spirit.” 

The training also suggests that pharmacists introduce a question about a customer’s gender at their first interaction. The course gives this prompt: “Hello, my name is Jay. I use they/them and he/him pronouns. How would you like me to address you?”

Click here to see a slide show of the training.

What does any of this have to do with being a pharmacist? Not much, said several pharmacists The Free Press spoke to.

Lisa Marino, 54, a hospital pharmacist in Los Angeles County, says the new cultural competency course provides nothing that relates to her job. “Our role is to aid in providing safe and appropriate use of medication for all people, regardless of culture, and with a respect for everyone’s privacy and dignity,” said Marino. “This feels like indoctrination.”

Joe, 50, who asked The Free Press not to use his last name, worked as a pharmacist for 25 years and owns an independent pharmacy in Los Angeles County. He says that respecting all customers, no matter their race or sexual orientation, is a given.

“To be a competent pharmacist, you need to know about medications, professional ethics, and the law,” said Joe. “That’s it.” 

Dr. Carrie Mendoza is an emergency medicine physician and the recently appointed director of Genspect USA, an organization that seeks evidence-based treatments for people with gender distress. She says people are taught to be so hyper-sensitive to avoid offending people, especially to those in a designated “marginalized” group, that pharmacists may be afraid to bring up legitimate concerns. “A pharmacist might not raise medication safety concerns such as adverse effects [or] inappropriate dosing. . . out of fear they will be called discriminatory,” said Mendoza. “Political trainings like this undermine safety for all patients and should be immediately removed from our healthcare system.”

But one of the three CPhA cultural competency course authors, Dr. Tam Phan, an assistant professor of clinical pharmacy at the University of Southern California—and the clinical pharmacy program coordinator at the Los Angeles LGBT Center—told The Free Press in an email that a pharmacist’s role has expanded beyond quick interactions at the prescription counter. 

“Pharmacist prescriptive authority in California has expanded to immunizations, hormonal contraceptives, travel medicine, nicotine replacement products, and HIV. . . treatments,” he wrote. “For pharmacists who are not interacting with patients directly, LGBTQ+ cultural sensitivity is still important since pharmacists should be knowledgeable of potential drug interactions between hormones being used in gender affirmation with the patient’s other medications.”

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This has nothing to do with "well-being." The point is to proselytize and indoctrinate at any and every available opportunity, to embed their particular ideological commitments as deeply into society as possible.

[poisonousquinzel]

Bigots on Twitter are really losing their shit cause some Harley Quinn fan account made a harmless thread about their trans Harley headcanon & got a hashtag to trend about it

like these dense motherfuckers really ain't heard of headcanons before huh? 💀 gosh, no one tell them about mpreg fics

[realwizardshit]

Anthro prof: Gender

me, an evil gay antifa communist bent on conquering the world and oppressing christians: hell yeah brother

[kmko23]

Beware of the regulations and indoctrinations disguised as the need of their presences to keep you safe while only benefiting the hypocritical lawmakers and false teachers. 👁️ #kmktalks #politics #conformity #philosophy #patriotism #wokeness #regulations #indoctrination #unpopularopinion #unpopularopinions #wordstoponder #foodforthought https://www.instagram.com/p/CqNlaceOiZ6/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[penguinlover27]

This is a must-read article. I could not have put it any better myself.

[merthwyn]

First week of school in many countries and it's the first year I actually feel extremely sad and worried about children being obligated to go to school. School is the second worse source of traumas and abuse (first is abusive parenting). And now kids also have to go through woke indoctrination. At least during my school years we "just had" bullies. We did not have indoctrination, at least not to a point where, if a parent reacted they would have been in danger of having their child been taken from them and, if a kid reacted they would have been forced to get "DEI seminars" and, if a teacher reacted they would have ended in prison with their career and life ruined.

If I have children and don't find any school that actually educates it's students and protects students and teachers from bullying and indoctrination, I'm definetely homeschooling. And I don't buy the "if they don't go to school they will not socialise and have friends" anymore. Out of school activities are equally good for socialisation, if not better, since the kids will actually like what they will be doing and can leave anytime they want and never go back if bullying occurs.

I have great respect for these teachers who are not buying the narrative, educate students properly and are actually there for their students and don't tolerate bullying.

[isawthismeme]