“Opportunities to advance the ideals of DEI through our communities.”
In the 1980s, there were over 4 million enrolled scouts. Today the woke organization boasts that it “serves just over 1 million young people, including more than 176,000 girls and teens.”
Since the Boy Scouts dropped the whole gender thing, they’re also dropping the ‘boy’ part of the name to become ‘Scouting America’. That sounds like a vacation organization, not a program to develop skills and leadership in boys, but the Boy Scouts aren’t that anymore and haven’t been in a while.
The people most likely to want to send their children to the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts were more traditional. And many of them have split off into more traditional scouting groups. The Scouts are now a shell of what they used to be and adopting a generic name isn’t likely to fix that.
But officially everything is fine.
“In the next 100 years we want any youth in America to feel very, very welcome to come into our programs,” Roger Krone, who took over last fall as president and chief executive officer, said in an interview before the announcement.
The organization began allowing gay youth in 2013 and ended a blanket ban on gay adult leaders in 2015. In 2017, it made the historic announcement that girls would be accepted as Cub Scouts as of 2018 and into the flagship Boy Scout program — renamed Scouts BSA — in 2019.
“You could see a change in the attitude of some of the doubters who weren’t sure and they realized, wait, these kids are exactly the same, they just happen to have ponytails,” said Brady. His daughters are among the 13 girls in his troop and 6,000 girls nationwide who have achieved the vaunted Eagle Scout rank.
That’s right kids. Boys and girls are exactly the same. Except that the girls have ponytails.
But under whatever name, the BSA remains committed to DEI. And there’s the opportunity to volunteer for DEI training.
“BSA has collaborated with nonprofits to identify opportunities to advance the ideals of DEI through our communities.”
Finally, Boy Scouts of America, sorry Scouting America, can train kids with ponytails on the best way to get their race riot merit badge while burning American flags.
Article posted with permission from Daniel Greenfield
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