NPR ‘fact-checks’ conservatives’ effective use of term ‘groomer’, declares it homophobic

Left-wing media outlets appear to be in a rush to “debunk” the evidence-backed narrative from conservatives that teachers who are hellbent on speaking with little children about sexuality are, in effect, groomers.

On Wednesday alone, two outlets — NPR and PolitiFact — both published opinionated “fact-checks” claiming that the groomer label is a false and homophobic “attack” rooted in politics, not the truth.

“Actual grooming occurs when adults take advantage of a child’s vulnerability to manipulate and coerce the child into sexual abuse. Now that meaning has been warped and corrupted to broadly smear the motives of LGBTQ people and those who oppose anti-LGBTQ legislation,” NPR’s “fact-check” reads.

PolitiFact’s “fact-check” reads similarly.

“‘Grooming’ is a term strongly associated with child sexual abuse; it refers to a process or set of behaviors adults use to make it easier to introduce and complete sexual interactions with a child. Talking about gender identity and sexual orientation in the classroom would not be grooming, because it is done without intent to sexually abuse a child,” it states.

As sources, NPR cites left-wing LGBT activists, and PolitiFact cites unnamed “experts.”

Yet according to the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), grooming refers to “when someone builds a relationship, trust and emotional connection with a child or young person so they can manipulate, exploit and abuse them.”

Conservative critics, and even quite a few liberal critics, argue that teachers sexualizing children and recruiting them into sexual identity clubs without their parents’ permission fits this definition to a T.

And indeed, in response to NPR and PolitiFact’s ostensible “fact-checks,” critics on social media have flooded them with example after example after example debunking their opinionated narrative — many of the examples from LibsOfTikTok.

But no matter how much evidence critics present, the establishment press remains committed — as does the Democrat Party, coincidentally — to downplaying the easily observable phenomenon of teachers having inappropriate discussions with children about sexuality.

Similarly, the establishment press continues to smear Florida’s Parental Rights in Education law — which bars teachers from having such discussions with children in third grade or lower — as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

Even PolitiFact’s own ostensible “fact-check” contains this smear, which, critics say, begs the question of why their alleged expertise should even be trusted:

Critics also argue that sexual matters shouldn’t be part of classroom discussions for young children, period, and have slammed NPR and PolitiFact for trying to make them believe otherwise under the guise of alleged expertise.

As one critic wrote to NPR, “Thank you, state -funded media outlet, for telling me decisively what to think.”

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Vivek Saxena

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