Children Lured To Their Death To Sounds Of Ms. Rachel
At first glance, she seems sweet. Everything about her appearance is purposefully designed to disguise the truth.
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There is always something behind the eyes of soft-spoken women that instantly triggers my fight-or-flight instinct. I don’t know if it’s because all of the women in my family are outspoken and never pretend to be daisies. Or if it’s because most of the supposedly tender females I have come across in my life have turned out to be emotionally manipulative and deceitful.
Either way, the rise of Ms. Rachel, the popular children’s content creator, is extremely confusing to me. It seems obvious that an insidious radical lingers behind her supposedly gentile, preschool tone. Still, millions of normal parents who don’t see themselves as staunch conservatives or liberals continue to consume her content. Worse, they let their children’s brains and emotions be regulated by her message.
I don’t begrudge them of their naivety. I sometimes crave the time before I knew everything I do about how our culture or government works. Life would be simpler that way. However, I do wish that they would see Ms. Rachel the way I see her. To me, she is a pawn being used to sugarcoat left-wing ideologies in a consumable way.
At first glance, she seems sweet. Everything about her appearance is purposefully designed to disguise the truth. If you saw a picture of her without knowing anything else about her, you would assume that she was normal. But she’s far from that.
In fact, she holds extremely radical views, from pushing anti-semitic and pro-LGBTQ episodes on her channel to her anti-border exceptionalism. What started as an educational sing-along for little kids is now a platform of 19 million subscribers to which she peddles her political views.
The first problem is the age of her audience. Ms. Rachel’s viewers are toddlers and preschoolers, meaning around ages 2 to 5. At this stage, their brains are still developing fast and are easily manipulated. They are unable to think critically or understand complex topics such as borders, war, or identity politics. They think in simple, concrete ways. They believe what adults tell them, especially adults they see as friendly teachers on screen.
So when Ms. Rachel sings songs or plays games that align with her political views, the kids absorb her ideologies as part of their daily routine. The brand loyalty built on cute songs makes it harder for parents to walk away, even if they disagree.
Her recent activism on the ICE Dilley detention center in Texas is another example. In March, she made video calls to children held there with their families. She posted clips on her channels and called for the center to close. She told reporters she is political because she believes care for children does not stop at a border.
The videos show her singing with detained kids and highlighting supposedly poor conditions. But not once did she mention that their parents bear the blame for the situation these children are in. None of these children would be in a detention center if their parents hadn’t entered the U.S. illegally.
Nor does she seem to care about the effects of illegal immigration on American children. Jocelyn Nungaray was only in the 6th grade when two Venezuelan illegal immigrants lured her away. She was sexually assaulted, tied up, strangled, and her body dumped in a shallow creek under a bridge.
Twelve-year-old Dereon James Robinson and nine-year-old Mikhail-Lee Smith were riding bicycles on a sidewalk when a drunk driver veered off the road and struck them. Both died at the hospital. Eri Otoniel Roblero Perez, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, was charged with two counts of felony DUI resulting in death, among other charges. One of the family members described holding one son as he bled to death.
Eight-year-old Arya Cruz Acencio, the daughter of a U.S. Marine, was killed after a drunk driver hit the family’s car in a head-on collision. Brayan Josue Alva-Rodriguez was an illegal immigrant from Guatemala who had multiple arrests related to drunk driving and had a deportation order that the Biden administration had ignored.
Rachel Morin, a mother of five children, was raped and brutally murdered while jogging on the Ma & Pa Trail in Maryland. Her body was found stuffed in a tunnel drain. Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, was sentenced to life without parole.
The list sadly goes on.
But even without the death toll to grapple with. As an educator, Ms. Rachel should understand the hardships American students face, as their teachers are forced to accommodate English language learners (non-English-speaking students) when creating lesson plans. Everything has to be slowed down to accommodate these students, leaving American citizens to sit through repetitive lessons that hinder their success.
None of this is compassionate for anyone involved. And yet, Ms. Rachel, with her theater kid smile and bright pink shirt, tells our children that this is all they deserve.
Ms. Rachel has the right to spew whatever nonsense she likes, and parents can choose to allow it into their home if they want. However, it strikes me as incredibly deceiving to dress these harmful ideologies up with nursery rhymes and fake smiles. It’s almost as if she knows that no parent in their right mind would sit their children down to watch an hour of her spewing her political views, if not for the educational mask she uses to hide her true intentions.
I am so put off by her that when parents innocently tell me that their children are obsessed with Ms. Rachel, I make a mental note not to let my children do playdates at their house. It’s not that I believe they are intentionally trying to indoctrinate my children into performative compassion that will eventually kill our society. It’s just that I know at the end of the day if they aren’t willing to protect their children from this, then they are incapable of protecting mine.
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