Kirstie Alley Defends Children, Gets Attacked By Woke Publications
Don't you dare express your concerns about what the media is teaching your kids.
TV star Kirstie Alley is speaking truth to power. The actress, best known for her role in Cheers, said what many Americans are thinking: just what the hell is going on with the left’s slow march towards complete and utter moral decline? And furthermore, what’s up with the gaslighting?
In a series of tweets that later trended on Twitter, Kirstie first wrote:
Was watching TV ...we’ve gone too far in my opinion. I feel sorry for our children. Their exposure to everything perverse on every kind of screen is mind boggling. And even more tragic, it’s being hyped as “normal”.
Alley followed up her remarks with further clarifications to make sure everyone understood what she meant. Anyone who’s followed the culture war knows what she’s on about:
I’m kinda on a roll but my heart’s heavy with the s*** that’s being crammed down our kid’s throats. A “moral code” is not old fashioned. Morals are simply guidelines for better survival. Explicit sexual “education” and “select” ideals being forced on kids is NOT better survival.
People are becoming so “open minded” that down the road they will support pedophilia as people “just loving children.” You think I’m kidding. I’m not. It’s the direction this insanity is headed. You can “ok boomer” me all you want but this is where we will veer unless we change.
The reaction was predictable. Though conservatives voiced their support for Alley’s opinion, those on the left slammed Alley as a “Scientologist,” not even bothering to refute her remarks. Some website called Socialite Life described her as a “Scientologist and one-time actress” who “has apparently been listening to too many QAnon theories of late.”
Perennially woke publication Queerty declared Alley’s concerns “incoherent,” reporting that “Former actress Kirstie Alley took to Twitter this morning to rant incoherently about something she’d just watched on television.”
“Though she didn’t say exactly what she had seen, based on her remarks, it seems to have been about teaching LGBTQ issues and sex ed in schools … God forbid we teach our children to be more kind and accepting of others.”
Of course, the only reason they’d imply that the successful actress no longer works in acting is somehow a has-been is to dismiss her opinion as illegitimate, but that’s neither here nor there. Crucially, the argument Queerty makes is a misdirection, which misrepresents Alley’s views.
Lately, concerns one might have for children and their wellbeing have been related by some as a “QAnon conspiracy theory,” especially where the media is involved. While most right-minded people don’t buy such excuses and express their concern for children without having to make excuses about now they’re not into fringe politics, it’s worrying to see outlets like Queerty (woke though it might be) make the implication that Alley’s remarks are connected in some way to embarrassing conspiracy theories.
While it’s horrifying that a group of conspiracy theorists have managed to tarnish legitimate concern for children – to have that position dismissed as an embrace of fringe politics – it’s a view that is most certainly encouraged by the very people who’d like for the mainstream public to dismiss those very concerns.
Painting someone as a transphobic bigot has become the go-to strategy of dealing with critics of those who enable the sexualization of children. If I were them, I’d be in full agreement with Alley and try to distance myself as much as possible from sexual predators who seek to hijack the woke movement toward their own ends.
The wokenista are, at best, responding out of some naïve reactionary defense of “open mindedness.” At worst, they’re precisely the kind of people Alley is warning everyone about.