Is the Republican “anti-woke” agenda killing young people?

Young people continue to be killed by shooters in their schools and communities, but Republicans say the biggest threat to youth is “wokeness,” as in drag queens reading to them; school discussions of critical race theory, gender, and sexuality; and trans people using bathrooms.

Young people are also being killed by massive tornadoes, hurricanes, and floods caused at least in part by human-driven climate change, but Republicans say the biggest threat to youth is “wokeness,” as in drag queens reading to them; school discussions of critical race theory, gender, and sexuality; and trans people using bathrooms.

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Young people are being killed by addiction to tobacco, alcohol, and narcotic “pain killers” promoted and marketed to youth by big tobacco, big alcohol, and big pharma, but Republicans say the biggest threat to youth is “wokeness,” as in drag queens reading to them; school discussions of critical race theory, gender, and sexuality; and trans people using bathrooms.

Young people are engaging in self-harm and taking their own lives while living in a society that demonizes and marginalizes their identities, but Republicans say the biggest threat to youth is “wokeness,” as in drag queens reading to them; school discussions of critical race theory, gender, and sexuality; and trans people using bathrooms.

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Young people are suffering from food insecurity in their homes and communities due to the enormous wage and wealth gap between the very rich and the working classes, but Republicans say the biggest threat to youth is “wokeness,” as in drag queens reading to them; school discussions of critical race theory, gender, and sexuality; and trans people using bathrooms.

Young people are receiving substandard educations in underfunded schools with resource disparities due to the gigantic socioeconomic inequities pervading our nation, but Republicans say the biggest threat to youth is “wokeness,” as in drag queens reading to them; school discussions of critical race theory, gender, and sexuality; and trans people using bathrooms.

Young people often face poor healthcare accessibility due to the extraordinary profit incentives of the insurance industry, but Republicans say the biggest threat to youth is “wokeness,” as in drag queens reading to them; school discussions of critical race theory, gender, and sexuality; and trans people using bathrooms.

Young people who have been rejected by their families often have few options other than to flee their abusive home environments and live on the streets, placing themselves at high risk for drug addiction, sex work, violence, injury, and death and often lacking access to mental and physical health facilities and other “safety nets” because of underfunding of social services, but Republicans say the biggest threat to youth is “wokeness,” as in drag queens reading to them; school discussions of critical race theory, gender, and sexuality; and trans people using bathrooms.

Young people and their families face homelessness due to multiple unmet financial, employment, and healthcare needs of their caretakers, but Republicans say the biggest threat to youth is “wokeness,” as in drag queens reading to them; school discussions of critical race theory, gender, and sexuality; and trans people using bathrooms.

Young people and their families are facing often insurmountable obstacles in the immigration system that puts them at risk for deportation back to their violent home countries and puts their lives in jeopardy, but Republicans say the biggest threat to youth is “wokeness,” as in drag queens reading to them; school discussions of critical race theory, gender, and sexuality; and trans people using bathrooms.

But with its divisive, deflective, and defiant agenda, maybe it’s the Republican Party that poses the biggest threat to today’s youth.