I just finished dinner in Romania with a group of Orthodox priests. It will never get old, watching the faces of people in this part of the world when I tell them what is now normal in American life, regarding sex, gender, and children. It will never get old because the fact that they are visibly shocked is a sign that there is still some hope that they can build defenses against the decadence that has consumed the United States.

Back in my room, I saw this story, sent to me by a friend. Excerpt:

The Illinois chapter of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) has slated a gay porn star to be one of its speakers and presenters for its annual Pre-K and Kindergarten Conference. The ASCD claims to have 125,000 members in more than 100 countries with a primary focus on professional development for educators.

The Illinois ASCD has slated Tell Williams IV to be a presenter during the virtual conference scheduled for next week. Williams, who has become famous on the social media platform, TikTok, for posting videos talking about being a gay preschool teacher, also has a large following on an adult site called Onlyfans. Williams has nearly 200 explicit videos and photos of himself masturbating and showing his genitalia on that site and has actively posted new explicit content this year.

According to the Illinois ASCD website, “Mr. Williams will be discussing what real and effective self-care items look like, how we can better advocate for ourselves and our colleagues both in and out of the classroom, and ways we can help normalize and humanize teachers.”

After this exposé, the education group cancelled Tell Williams’s scheduled talk. Just another day in American Babylon, where groomers are going after kids. I don’t apologize for saying “groomers,” especially as someone on this site pointed out that we routinely talk about Islamic radicals “grooming” young people into embracing Islamic radicalism.

But if you call this filth out for what it is, you have to be prepared to be denounced by American elites, including media elites. Here’s part of a Christine Emba column in the Washington Post:

Psst. Have you heard? Mickey Mouse is a groomer.

So wrote American Conservative senior editor Rod Dreher, one of many on the far right who lately have wielded accusations of pedophilia and child sex abuse to slime opponents (real or cartoon) of Florida’s Parental Rights in Education law, more broadly known as the “don’t say gay” bill.

This was part of an extended salvo: “About the term ‘groomers,’” Dreher later clarified, “it’s usually used to describe pedophiles who are preparing innocent kids for sexual exploitation. I think it is coming to have a somewhat broader meaning: an adult who wants to separate children from a normative sexual and gender identity, to inspire confusion in them, and to turn them against their parents and all the normative traditions and institutions in society.”

Ostensibly, then, this reckless deployment of a highly charged accusation is meant to keep kids safe from sexual confusion and harm. But the “groomer” discourse isn’t really about safety. It’s about control. And it could end up doing much more harm than good.

The “far right”? Mmm-hmm. The only people who could possibly object to this stuff are those not just on the right, but on the faaaaaaaar right, where the crazies and the wack jobs keep company. I wonder if Emba has consulted the polls on the Florida law, for example? One from the nonpartisan Public Opinion Strategies says:

I’m sure inside the Washington Post newsroom, and within Christine Emba’s social and professional circles, only “far right” people react strongly to this LGBT groomer education stuff. Her op-ed colleague Michael Gerson is more worked up that some GOP politicians are riding the emerging wave of anti-groomer populism than he is about the sexual exploitation of the imaginations of children by activist educators and the Walt Disney Company. Outside the bubble, though, it looks rather different. If you read her whole column, it’s whataboutism mixed with concern trolling — that is, expressing concern that calling them groomers is going to leave kids more vulnerable.

Right.

In other Groomer News:

New Jersey’s new sex curriculum points elementary students to watch videos from Amaze. This is one of their videos. They are telling 9 year olds to watch porn. Groomers. pic.twitter.com/9GrXYmJsNl

— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) April 8, 2022

This polyamorous genderfluid witch is a preschool teacher in Florida. She’s so proud of herself that she discusses her gender and sexuality with 4 year olds pic.twitter.com/XOuuX6by4w

— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) April 7, 2022

It’s really something that some top journalists are more worried about the language that people like me, Chris Rufo, Libs of Tik Tok, and others use to call this evil out than they are about this evil. As I wrote the other day, twenty years ago, in Massachusetts, the media, political, and judicial elites covered up for groomers who did their thing under state education auspices, teaching adolescents about fisting (shoving a hand up the rectum of a sexual partner for pleasure) and other sick practices as part of LGBT-friendly sex ed. Now it’s the whole nation. Remember your Law of Merited Impossibility: it will never happen, and when it does, you bigots will deserve it.