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When Children Cancel Parents
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When Children Cancel Parents

“Woke” culture is affecting children to the point that they are turning against their own parents. Protecting children from such corruption is possible, however. ...
Selwyn Duke

“You’re a thought criminal!” said the boy to protagonist Winston Smith in George Orwell’s 1984. This comes to mind when pondering stories of parents who get “canceled” by their own children. Oh, they’re not called thought criminals. They’re just not called — for Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, or any other time because they dared be awakened to Truth in a “woke” time. 

We’ve heard about this for a while. “You are no longer my mother, because you are voting for Trump,” Reuters related lifelong Democrat Mayra Gomez, 41, as having been told by her 21-year-old son last year. The news organ also relates that “Jacquelyn Hammond, 47, a bartender in Asheville, North Carolina, no longer speaks to her Trump-supporting mother Carol.” Now Meadowlark Press writer Caryn Boddie relates her own experiences being canceled by her kids, along with those of other people she knows of enduring the same fate. 

Writing at American Thinker July 19, Boddie cites the final chapter of socialist author Saul “the Red” Alinsky’s book Rules for Radicals (1971). Titled “The Way Forward,” it states, “Organization for action will now and in the decade ahead center upon America’s white middle class. That is where the power is.... Large parts of the middle class, the ‘silent majority,’ must be activated.”

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