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Girling the Boy Scouts | Heather Mac Donald

5-Minute Videos | PragerU

PragerU

History, Education, Business, Self-improvement, Non-profit

4.86.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Men—and the boys who aspire to become men—are in crisis. What if there were an institution designed to inspire boys to pursue goodness, self-mastery, and excellence? There was: the Boy Scouts of America. In this PragerU 5-Minute Video, Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute explores how this once-revered organization lost its mission and what that reveals about today’s culture war against masculinity, discipline, and virtue. Discover what happened to the Boy Scouts and why it matters for the future of American manhood. Get all our content ad-free on PragerU.com or download the PragerU app: https://l.prageru.com/45GvWlu Follow PragerU on social media: YouTube Instagram X/Twitter Facebook Rumble Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I made you think you

0:01.6

My name is Cadence Sinclair

0:03.8

Some people call us American royalty

0:06.4

We were liars

0:07.5

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0:09.4

We were happy

0:10.5

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0:11.8

Based on the best-selling novel

0:14.3

Something terrible happened last summer

0:17.3

And I have no memory of what

0:19.0

Or who hurt me

0:20.0

No one in my family will tell me.

0:22.7

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0:31.5

Men and the boys who aspire to become men are in a sorry state. If only there were an organization to encourage boys to strive

0:40.0

for goodness, self-mastery, and excellence. Oh, wait, such an institution already exists, or did

0:47.4

until it was dismantled. The Boy Scouts of America, that storied organization that once epitomized the best of masculinity is no more.

0:57.2

It's now Scouts BSA. The word boy has even been expunged from the organization's promotional materials,

1:04.5

replaced with the word youth, as in, for more than 100 years, scouting programs have instilled in

1:10.5

youth the values found in the scout oath.

1:13.8

How and why the Boy Scouts have been brought down is a case study in how the progressive left

1:18.8

worms its way into an institution and hollows it out until there's nothing left but a shell.

1:25.3

The Boy Scouts were an easy target, wholesome, patriotic, and above

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