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I'm an eagle scout, and I've been following this story.
I'm going to be returning my medal as soon as I find a good mailing address that gives it the best chance of it landing on Roger Krone's desk.
I've been in touch with every eagle I know. A good handful of them are on-board with sending their medals back as well. Most of the rest of them are at least going to be writing letters and doing whatever else they can to draw some attention to this.
Look, in the grand scheme of things, the changes they've agreed to change little to nothing about the scout program.
But if they caved once, that just means that hegseth is just going to try again, and they'll probably cave in next time too. And the next time.
I'm not doing it lightly, I'm damn proud of my eagle scout award, that goofy little medal ranks among my most priced possessions.
But after a couple more rounds of this bullshit, they're going to twist scouting into something I'd no longer want to identify with, so one way or another my days of being proud of that medal are coming to an end.
Fellow Eagle Scout here. I'm so glad my son dropped out last year so he doesn't have to deal with this bullshit. It's so embarrassing to see them cave on their principles when tested
Definitely appreciate that. My first scout master was genuinely Mr. Nature and taught us so much. He stuck around for a couple years after his kids went through and we all benefitted from it.
A few friends and I quit in protest a ways through life scout because our second scout master turned the troop into a nepotistic theocracy. He was a very sad pharmacist who moonlit as a wannabe drill instructor going through a major midlife crisis.
We called it when he began fast tracking kids in his church through eagle and being openly hostile to any of us who weren't basically white Christian nationalists. Although this dude was a Catholic, it also didn't help that the Mormon church had entirely captured the administrative structure of scouting in my area around the same time.
I saw how good it could be and then saw it turn to absolute discriminatory and racist shit within the span of about a year and a half. All of that really dispelled any of the magic for me and I was over it.
I will say that it was an early lesson in appreciating, understanding, and emulating good leaders and giving myself permission to cut ties with losers. It was also pretty amusing seeing the kids/families who stayed in the troop get all fussy when those of us who left outperformed and led more well rounded lives than their weird, coddled, and emotionally stunted children.
I like to think I got what I needed out of scouting and more lol.
The scouts have already agreed to at least some of the nonsense.
The threads about this on Reddit are quite illuminating. It's a real shame, that's all I can say.
If these rocket surgeons get what they really want, membership will be cut by 25% by kicking out girls and honestly, the organization will probably die, or at least wither away to a wisp of its former self. Absolutely brilliant nine-dimensional chess like every other stupid fascist idea.
I see people discussing this as it has been playing out and saying - don't give in - especially if you are a girl - since that is exactly what these pieces of shit want.
I guess former members have their own choices to make, and I respect yours. I would hope that your good memories and impressions of things are not permanently spoiled by these unhinged monsters.
Deliver it in person for even more dramatic effect.
PS: Bring a reporter and a cameraman, too.
Unfortunately I live a really long way from their HQ in Texas, and have neither the time nor the money to do so.
And delivering it to my local council wouldn't really have the same impact, my local council isn't the problem, they actually tried to admit gay scouts back in the 90's when the national organization was still firmly against it.