“Just Let Them Be Kids!”

They’ll stop only when stopped.

The Wokes’s campaign to ruin childhood scored a short-lived conquest last week when Crayola, the crayon maker whose customer base is mainly kids aged two to ten, decided it would be just ducky to use the creature seen above in a PR campaign on social media. According to TheBlaze, Crayola

. . . shared images of a transgender model on its social media accounts. Crayola promoted Julian Gavino AKA The Disabled Hippie, on the crayon company’s Facebook and Instagram pages to celebrate ‘Disability Pride Month.’

‘Julian Gavino, (he/him) a fashion model, writer, and activist who identifies as a transgender man,’ Crayola wrote. ‘He was born with a progressive neurological condition. Julian is passionate about advocating for his respective communities. As someone who grew up not seeing anyone who looked like him in the media, Julian is determined to normalize disabled and trans bodies in the fashion world.’

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Crayola posted three images of Gavino, including one where he is wearing a leopard-print jumpsuit and another with a lime green jacket with a chain bra as well as latex pants and high-heeled boots.

With all the good will in the world for the physically disabled, your correspondent Bickerstaff wonders how someone high up in the Hallmark Company, the sole owner of the Crayola, which in addition to greeting cards is a major producer of movies stressing family values, okayed this project. Did anyone involved in it stop and ask, even fleetingly, is it appropriate to pitch to those in their single digits, “(he/him) a fashion model, writer, and activist who identifies as a transgender man” who’s goal is to “normalize trans bodies?”

The answer is likely yes. Probably even more than a few at the company questioned the wisdom of the project, but kept it to themselves lest they face the wrath and retribution from pagan clerics in Hallmark’s Diversity and Inclusion Department (or whatever it’s called), departments that are now de rigueur at all US corporations.

Fear is the engine of the Wokes. Even though they consist only a tiny segment of our society, because they have most media, social and traditional, in the palms of their hands they usually get their way. They have the power to wreak holy hell on dissenters and cow them into submission.

Happily, though, this particular scheme of the Wokes seems to have fizzled, for they failed, as they usually do, to consider the opinions of a group that vastly outnumbers them, the public at large. Reactions to Crayola’s campaign were swift and furious, no doubt because it was clearly aimed at children. A flood of negative comments rained in, many calling for boycotts of Crayola, and the commenters did not mince words. Via TheBlaze, a sampling follows.

Stop! Children need to be protected from this! It is sad when I want to go against the school supply suggestions and NOT buy Crayola. Get off the woke bus. Go woke, go broke.”

Kids don’t need to be taught about sexual preference or changing genders while trying to color.

I guess I’ll be switching the brand of crayons I buy for my children.

Stick to crayons.

And this one must have stung.

Our kids don’t need to be pushed through media and this is messed up. I support LGBTQ but I don’t support pushing our children in these ways. JUST LET THEM BE KIDS!

It now appears all of Crayola’s ill-conceived social media postings have been pulled. No doubt its creators are licking their wounds, but be assured, they’ll be back. For it is the goal of the left and has been for years to force the young into adolescence quicky as possible and to keep them there long as possible, which explains the behavior of so many in the colleges, media and, increasingly, corporations.

We should remember though, the good and decent still outnumber by far those emotionally stunted and superannuated teens. In time, the former will become sufficiently fed up with the destructive behavior of the latter and put a stop to it. It won’t be pretty, possibly violent, but will happen.