KAROL MARKOWICZ: Ms Rachel said, 'I am political.' Parents should take her at her word
Wearing a pink headband and talking in a sing-songy voice, Ms. Rachel’s "Songs for Littles" is a phenomenon among toddlers. She’s the new Mr. Rogers, according to some, a safe place to park your children while you do the dishes or laundry.
The reality is that Rachel Griffin Accurso, who plays the character of Ms. Rachel, should not be trusted with your kids.
She’s become a prominent anti-Israel activist, but that’s just one part of her overall political messaging. If you’re letting your child watch Ms. Rachel because her anti-Israel comments don’t bother you, it’s important to understand that those comments are part of a larger grouping of far-left opinions.
Accurso describes herself as a devout Christian but often uses it as cover to promote her far-left opinions. While she falsely describes what is happening in Gaza as a "genocide" and pushes what critics say are debunked stories such as mass starvation in Gaza, she also opposes ICE, supports reparations for the descendants of slaves, and opposes the very existence of billionaires.
She foments racial strife, as when she said of the investigation into the death of a Black teenager, Nolan Wells, who died after a boat trip near Mississippi's Horn Island, that "We know the investigation and everything that followed would have been different if Nolan Wells were White and his friends were Black. Nolan and his family deserve justice." There is no evidence that the police racialized the investigation whatsoever.
In August, when a Black man was found hanging from a tree in Raleigh, Ms. Rachel said, "Please listen to the Black community. Black people don’t hang themselves from trees." The man had a history of mental health issues, and his death has been ruled a suicide.
She also commented on the death of British professor Jason Arday, saying, "Also, what the press did to Dr. Jason Arday. My heart is with the Black community. Please be an ally. You don’t have to be perfect. But you need to listen, uplift, speak out and show up." Arday was found to have plagiarized parts of his work at Cambridge University, and the press simply reported on the allegations, as it would have for any prominent professor facing a similar scandal.
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A few days ago, Bill Ackman, the hedge fund manager who founded Pershing Square Capital Management, posted on X wondering why a Palestinian flag was present at a protest against artificial intelligence outside of Google’s offices. The answer, of course, is that there is a leftist "omnicause," and the Palestinian flag has long been one symbol of it. The top issues change. It could be climate change or opposing ICE. It might be forcing the normalization of transgenderism on children. Or it could be the vague cause of the Palestinians, as has been the case over the last several years. But the real truth is that all of these causes always point to one thing: the demonizing of America and the fight to destroy it. The cause is never the cause; the cause is always revolution.
It’s true that Ms. Rachel generally doesn’t make her actual program, "Songs for Littles," overtly political. Yet. But that doesn’t mean she hasn’t already inched toward it.
She has introduced a non-binary character on her show, shown a Palestinian child with blown-off legs and featured a Palestinian so-called "journalist," Motaz Azaiza, who has admitted to filming Palestinian crowds beating Israeli hostages after the Oct. 7 attacks and to purposely withholding the footage. She’s also invited trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney, best known for caricaturing women, to appear on her program.
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Her comments on Gaza have sometimes slid from merely "pro-Palestinian" to plainly antisemitic. She apologized after an outcry that she had "liked" a comment on her page that read "Free America from the Jews." She had also entertained the possibility that Jews were leaving antisemitic comments themselves.
It’s very hard to un-brainwash children who have been ideologically captured by outside forces. When writing our book, Stolen Youth , my co-author Bethany Mandel and I heard from so many parents who wished they had gotten involved when they saw their kids being led astray.
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Last March, Ms. Rachel said, "I am political," when she described her opposition to ICE enforcing immigration laws and deporting people who are in the country illegally.
Parents should believe her and remove her from their child’s orbit.
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