Karol Markowicz: ‘Ultimate Revolutionaries’—How the Woke Regime Indoctrinates Children
American Thought Leaders
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🗓️ 20 May 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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“This happened in a red enclave, in a red hamlet, in a red town, in a red county. I need these people to understand that this could happen anywhere.”
New York Post columnist Karol Markowicz was a self-described “New York supremacist,” having spent all of her life in the Big Apple. But she uprooted her family to Florida after the coronavirus pandemic opened her eyes to what she saw were “Soviet patterns” across American culture.
“I saw very clearly, for the first time, that even free people can act like authoritarians and turn on their neighbors at a moment’s notice,” says Markowicz.
She considers these patterns part of a larger cultural revolution sweeping the nation, in which woke institutions are increasingly separating children from their families, whether it be through the indoctrination of gender ideology, critical race theory, or pandemic measures.
“If parents see this kind of thing going on, where somebody’s asking their kid to keep a secret from them, I think they should imagine for themselves what else is happening,” says Markowicz, who is the co-author, with Bethany Mandel, of the new book, “Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation.”
“The woke are a very small segment of the population. And yet, they’re able to control so much, and they do that through this forced conformity,” says Markowicz. “When we treat kids like little adults, we instill all of our problems and issues on them. And that really does mess them up going forward.”
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| 0:00.0 | This happened in a red enclave, in a red hamlet, in a red town, in a red county, |
| 0:06.1 | and it's like, I need these people to understand that this could happen anywhere. |
| 0:09.8 | New York Post columnist Carol Markowitz was a self-described New York supremacist |
| 0:14.6 | having spent all of her life in the Big Apple, but she uprooted her family to Florida |
| 0:19.2 | after the coronavirus pandemic opened her eyes to what she saw were Soviet patterns across |
| 0:24.4 | American culture. I saw very clearly for the first time that even free people |
| 0:29.7 | can act like authoritarians and turn on their neighbors at a moment's notice. |
| 0:35.5 | She's the co-author with Bethany Mandel of Stolen Youth, how radicals are erasing innocence |
| 0:41.7 | and indoctrinating a generation. The woke are a very small segment of the population, |
| 0:47.7 | and yet they're able to control so much, and they do that through this forced conformity. |
| 0:53.5 | When we treat kids like little adults, we instill all of our problems and issues |
| 0:58.9 | on them, and it really does mess them up going forward. |
| 1:02.5 | This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Janja Kelling. |
| 1:07.1 | Carol Markowitz, such a pleasure to have you on American Thought Leaders. |
| 1:10.7 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:12.2 | I've been really enjoying reading your book. As I've done a lot of interviews related to |
| 1:17.2 | woke ideology, to gender affirming care, as it's called, around COVID, just disastrous COVID |
| 1:24.6 | policy. I've been thinking a lot about how I'm seeing similar themes, and you put it all together |
| 1:31.2 | in a book for me, which I really appreciate. Tell me a little bit about how you saw first, |
| 1:40.4 | how all these things are related. |
| 1:42.6 | It was definitely COVID that opened my eyes to a lot of what was going on, |
| 1:46.8 | and I started to see patterns across our culture that I thought were part of a larger cultural |
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