This is like your boss finding shit to do when there’s nothing to do.
Hegseth criticizes Scouting for being “genderless” and for promoting diversity, equity and inclusion.
Imagine thinking this is a BAD thing.
The BSA wasn’t Hitler Youth outright while I was in, but there is definitely a “God, Duty, Country” vibe that other scouting organizations around the world left behind or never adopted in the first place. Conservatives liked that, and they hated that they had been making a slow march towards more progressive and less nationalist policy that I bet only hastened after the sexual assault lawsuits bankrupted the national organization.
Hegseth is probably doing this to either pressure Scouting into regressing, or to weaken Scouting in order to spin up a Trump Youth later. There is no shortage of conservative dads unhappy with modern Scouting that would love either outcome.
Fuckinnn yikes. Gonna have to watch out for the shitler youth.
Imagine thinking it’s true.
The Boy Scouts of America had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century by way of multiple sexual abuse scandals, a dwindling membership, and repeated bankruptcy.
This isn’t DEI, it’s a desperate appeal for more warm bodies in the program to shore up a dying movement.
It’s BAD in the sense that Scouting has largely become (arguably always had been) an MLM run by and for the benefit of a few connected business savvy insiders. And drawing in more grist for the mill only delays the inevitable failure of this corrupt and sclerotic institution.
Wait until he finds out our old pack burned flags!
Back when patriotism was “normal”, Scouts along with veterans helped organize and run a regional event to properly and respectfully retire worn flags. It was a huge deal
Czech here, glad Scouts hold the flag to the same standard everywhere. We used to burn the flag if it touched the ground or was “desecrated” in a different way.
I hope current scouts in your country can still treat such things as normal. Here in the US, any patriotic symbolism has been taken by the crazies.
They still do! At least our center does. Other were saying it they do it as well, but that was about 10 years ago, and I hope they still do it.
It is not treated as some kind of patriotism, it is merely to uphold the highest standard for a national symbol.
But nobody here really treats it as overly dramatic or extreme.
