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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/05/02/boy-scouts-scouts-bsa-girls-joining-cub-scouts/572036002/
The Boy Scouts of America doubled down Wednesday on its quest to become
the scouting organization of choice for boys and girls, announcing it will drop "Boy" from the name of its signature program.
An organization founded by pedos for pedos.
Lord Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scouts, was a fag and a pedo.
Tom Jeal's The Boy-Man, a 1990 biography, details Baden-Powell's attraction
to, and likely affairs with, teenage boys, as well as his fondness for nude
boy photos and requirements that Scouts in his care should bathe outside
naked. When Baden-Powell died, his family burned his voluminous collection
of photographs. Today he would have made the top ten on a Sex Offenders Registry list.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119802.The_Boy_Man http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/20/opinion/scoutings-gay-founder.html
"Baden-Powell, the founder of the scout movement, liked to look at photos of nude schoolboys with his friend, a schoolmaster and keen amateur snapper of
his pupils. This seemed perfectly natural to them, part of the healthy
outdoor life. Now they would get into serious trouble."
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2002/may/28/childprotection
Scouting -- which Baden-Powell referred to as a "character factory" -- was a regiment to inculcate a deeply conservative, secular Christianity that
espoused a defensive nationalism, racial intolerance, and sexual
prohibitions. Scouting would turn out real men who would maintain the status-quo, and not challenge prevailing social standards. When World War I erupted Scouting was seen as the breeding ground of good soldiers.
As World War II began Baden-Powell's repulsive political and racial
attitudes, which inform the history of Scouting but are clearly separate
from it as well, became even more evident. In 1937 Baden-Powell was eager
for the scouting movement to establish official ties with Hitler youth
groups. In 1939 he noted in his diary: "Lay up all day. Read Mein Kampf. A wonderful book, with good ideas on education, health, propaganda,
organization etc. -- and ideals which Hitler does not practice himself."
While the Boy Scouts today are certainly not a neo-Nazi group, nor as paramilitary as they were in the past, many of Baden-Powell's original ideas still remain -- especially those that inform how "real men" are made in the character factory.
Also:
http://pizzagateleaks.com/index.php/2017/07/02/was-the-boy-scouts-founder-a-pedophile-the-history-of-boy-scouts-pedophilia/
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