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hedorayesterday at 6:02 PM2 repliesview on HN

Trump forced the Boy Scouts to eliminate the Citizenship in Society badge.

Just saying.


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tracker1yesterday at 6:29 PM

Why turn this into a divisive Trump thing? I'm literally talking about trying to bring the country closer together and the response is just more divisiveness...

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bigyabaiyesterday at 6:55 PM

I say this as a former First Class scout, the entire thing is a racket. The "point" of Boy Scouts is to make you associate pointless meritocratic flair with actual accomplishment. It is a conditioning and propaganda pipeline with the purpose of stimulating enlistment.

The Boy Scouts were not an apolitical fun-fair, which became pretty glaringly obvious when the Army recruiters came by to meet with middle-schoolers. If you didn't enlist, you probably didn't stick around to earn your Eagle scout.

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