People who have spent the last few years crying about how “THE WOKE IS INDOCTRINATING OUR CHILDREN IN SCHOOLS” are incredibly funny in a country with the Pledge of Allegiance
For any of my followers outside the US who may not know what the Pledge of Allegiance is:
Basically, every morning in public school, everyone has to stand up, usually placing a hand on one’s heart, and recite the Pledge of Allegiance, which is as follows:
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all”
Now, you might be thinking “what the fuck?” and you’d be right to think that! A few things that should be added are that in most states, it isn’t legal to FORCE someone to say the Pledge, or punish someone who refuses, and there have been a number of court cases where people who have tried, and the courts don’t rule in their favor (so that’s good). But in 47 out of our 50 states, there are laws that do require the recitation of the Pledge, although many of these states have exemptions (the full breakdown can be found here)
Another thing that is of note that has been mentioned before, but bears repeating, is that the “Under God” part was added in 1954. Totally awesome from a country founded on separation of church and state.
So yeah. I don’t think the recent college grad with they/them pronouns are the most blatant example of indoctrination.