National Socialism is socialism by race.

Communism is socialism by class.

The USA now has a socialist double-dildo.

If people want to pay $45,000 for a school that thinks the best way to build community is to segregate people by race, religion, and sexual orientation, so be it. Parents have the freedom to leave the school at any time.

That's rather the crux of it, isn't it?z

The more sensible among us have the freedom to point, laugh, shake our heads and pay $0 to enjoy this latest parental ridiculousness.

$45,000 per year for a high school whatever its ludicrous policies? That's the bigger outrage.

The Boy Scouts are no longer called the Boy Scouts because they are no longer Boy Scouts. They are mixed-sex.

I lived there for twenty years, but thought this story was about a public school. It's hard to believe anyone spending money for this will put up with it. Brentwood is elegant, which is not the same thing as gentle.

Biden's ascent to the presidency, together with Dem control of both houses of congress, ensures that their will be overwhelming momentum behind this sort of thing, to the point that it may become impossible to moderate or to reverse.

Really, everything we need to know about how how to deal with people of different races was uttered by Martin Luther King in a single line: to judge people by what they can control, "the content of their character."

We're already hearing that things like objective truth, the scientific method, and paying one's debts on time are signs of white supremacy.

By whose standards are we to judge the "content of their character?" The wokies are changing the measuring stick of character to fit their narrative.

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The Boy Scouts are no longer called the Boy Scouts because they are no longer Boy Scouts. They are mixed-sex. ~ NicoleK at January 29, 2021 4:33 AM

That change came about mostly because the Girl Scouts shot themselves in the foot.

My sister was a Girl Scout and I've known parents with daughters in the Girl Scouts, so I know they're more than cookies. However, the average person on the street, if asked to define what the Girl Scouts do, will say "sell cookies."

Cookie sales were a great fund-raising idea, but the Girl Scouts have become, the public mind, little more than a uniformed band of militant cookie peddlers. Girls who wanted to do more than sell cookies looked to their brothers' organization, one which took those brothers camping, hiking, and engaged them numerous rugged, outdoor activities.

To be honest, Boy Scouts are not the straight-laced goody-two-shoes dweebs they are often portrayed as in movies. They're teenaged boys. There's mischief going on, but there's also adult guidance and structure to provide an emphasis on community service and self-reliance.

Girl Scouts were founded to provide girls with that emphasis on community service and self-reliance, but that gets lost in the hoopla surrounding the cookie sales.

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Brentwood is elegant, which is not the same thing as gentle. ~ Crid at January 29, 2021 5:17 AM

Exactly. Nice distinction.

I believe it was you who provided a link to an essay on the rise of social class and the evolution of manners designed to separate the elite from the hoi polloi. Those manners were elegant, but the enforcement of them was anything but gentle.

Entire novels have been written about the dangers of falling out of the upper classes through even a mild social faux pas or failing to keep up with the ever-changing unwritten rules of membership.

I remember a characterization of Lady Astor as the stern guardian on the walls defending the old-money upper classes from being over-run by the hordes of the nouveau riche.

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National Socialism is socialism by race. | Communism is socialism by class. ~ Jay J. Hector at January 28, 2021 11:10 PM

Nice distinction. There's more to it than that, but that's a nice summation.

Both communism and fascism are collectivist ideologies. Both have led to disaster wherever and whenever implemented - as collectivist philosophies tend to do.

That came off as too boastful.… This is where I lived.

But that wasn't the building. When I was there it was a ramshackle firetrap that had been moved from the beach twenty years earlier. It was the humblest structure within five miles, but just $695/month, and worth every penny. Especially during riots and earthquakes, when civility and services were maintained without incident. (…Though the 'building' itself shimmied like Tina Turner during Northridge.)

And I bungled the math. It was only for ten years, not twenty, twenty was the other place, a mile away.

Anyway, those were the bachelor years, when I didn't know neighbors with kids. But I'll never forget the time in Starbucks up by Sunset when two fourteen-year-old girls greeted each other effusively, and then parted with air-kisses… Sincerely, as if practicing to become like Mom.

How much damage could a curriculum like that do? Were we counting on such kids for instruction on race relations in the times to come?

We can be confident that the private schools of Brentwood will be resistant to other manifestations of California wretchedness.

My girl scout troop sucked. We did none of the campfire and hiking stuff. We just made arts and crafts. We learned to cook and "sew". All useful skills, but not what I was looking for.

And the doll dresses we made SUCKED. They were just cloth rectangles with a hole cut in the middle for a head, and tied around the waist with a ribbon. No actual sewing involved.

My girl scout troop sucked. We did none of the campfire and hiking stuff. We just made arts and crafts. We learned to cook and "sew". All useful skills, but not what I was looking for. ~ NicoleK at January 29, 2021 8:29 AM

In Boy Scouts, we learned to cook and sew, too. Not as expected skills for our gender, but as practical skills we needed.

The cooking was done over an open fire. Some of us became quite adept at it, making pizzas, cobblers, and even casseroles using a Dutch oven and tin foil.

The sewing was mostly limited to sewing on patches or field repairs of rips in clothes. Iron-on patches were God-sends to those of us whose skills with needle and thread were limited to sewing buttons back on (that would be me).

With girl scouts I think 20 yrs ago cookies and home economics type stuff. More current than that, cookies and leftist activism.

Boy scouts, the left has been trying for years to radically change or destroy them. Through a myriad of lawsuits, generally revolving around if you use gov't property (so much camping land is gov't owned and meeting space was often in gov't buildings) you must follow all the latest diversity rules, or be sued into bankruptcy. They have had girls as members back in 76 but as a semi separate group. Then it was the atheism lawsuits, then it was the homosexual leadership push. Then they had an uptick in sex abuse scandals. Finally the Mormons pulled out because they had been forced to change too much, loosing about 1/3 of their members. And I believe declaring some form of bankruptcy.

"loosing about 1/3 of their members"

So many jokes, so little time.

"My girl scout troop sucked." ~NicoleK

My boy scout troop sucked. The girl scout troop my sister belonged to worked well. There is a lot of variation based on local people in both organizations.

Brentwood is not a safe place for minority residents.

Ask OJ Simpson. He used to live there. His wife died and his house was torn down. It's dangerous.

None of our cooking was done over an open fire. It was done for international day where we had to bring a dish from our ancestral homeland. I think I brought raclette. Meals had to be prepped at home since the kitchen of the house we did it in couldn't accommodate a dozen cooking girls.

And as I said, our sewing sucked. It was more like cloth cutting and tying.

Sorry to hear about your sucky Boy Scout Troop, Ben.