The Boy Scouts of America is changing its name for the first time in its 114-year history.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/20749204

Another positive step in the right direction for an organization rife with brokenness. There’s a lot I don’t like about the organization, but this is something a love–a scouting organization open to young women and the lgbtq community. The next step is being inclusive of nonreligious agnostic and atheist youth and leaders. As well as ending the cultural appropriation of Native American peoples.

May this organization continue to build up youth, never allow further violence against youth, and make amends for all the wrongs. There’s a lot of good that comes out of organizations like this and I won’t discount it even though it’s riddled with a dark history.

  • BluefalconEnglish
    734·
    8 months ago

    Can’t wait for the “the scouts are failing due to being woke” crowd instead of the real reason, all the sexual abuse cases.

    • Beetschnapps@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      8 months ago

      I mean I had, and have met plenty of others who also had, the opposite experience.

      I say this as a pretty vanilla person, not gay, not trans… not even vegetarian.

      The Boy Scouts absolutely failed me as child interested in the outdoors because the troop was led by a bunch of adult men pretending their goal was to train a small military unit out of a Lutheran church on Thursdays.

      I have met so many Eagle Scouts who were encouraged and taught outdoor skills… actually taught survival skills! Not verbally threatened by some 55 year old polish dude suffering narcissistic injuries…

    • Liz@midwest.socialEnglish
      17·
      8 months ago

      They’ve been letting girls join for a while, but that won’t stop the reactionary crowd from freaking out. Also, they put a huge emphasis these days on preventing bad touch, for obvious reasons.

      • BluefalconEnglish
        52·
        8 months ago

        They have but the stigma sticks. For good reasons.