State Department Funding Drag Performances For Children in Ecuador
“The grant to CEN is part of the State Department’s public diplomacy program”
This is absolute insanity. Who voted for this? Who asked for this?
FOX News reports:
State Department funding ‘drag theater performances’ in Ecuador to ‘promote diversity and inclusion’
The U.S. Department of State has awarded more than $20,000 for a cultural center in Ecuador to host “drag theater performances” in the name of diversity and inclusion.
The State Department awarded a $20,600 grant on Sept. 23 to the Centro Ecuatoriano Norteamericano (CEN), a non-profit organization supported by the U.S. Embassy and Consulate in Ecuador, to “promote diversity and inclusion” in the region.
The project at CEN, which started Sept. 30 and runs until Aug. 31, 2023, will include “3 workshops,” “12 drag theater performances,” and a “2-minute documentary,” according to the State Department’s grant listed on the USASpending.gov website.
The grant to CEN is part of the State Department’s public diplomacy program, which seeks to “support the achievement of U.S. foreign policy goals and objectives, advance national interests, and enhance national security by informing and influencing foreign publics and by expanding and strengthening the relationship between the people and government of the United States and citizens of the rest of the world,” the website states.
The State Department has awarded hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to the CEN over the years, but the September grant appears to be the first of its kind funding drag performances.
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Should be considered an act of war, or colonialism
Always someplace like Ecuador.
Never anyplace like Venezuela.
Seems like Colonialism alright. Imposing our F&&ked up values on another culture.
Our “leaders” in action. So impressive.
1. For something like this to occur, just consider for a moment all the OFFICIAL APPROVALS that had to have occurred. The State Department is a government bureaucracy, is it not?
2. Doesn’t this kinda make you wonder whether there is someone in the State Department who promotes ideas like this … specifically and purposefully in order to annoy/disgust the locals? (In other words, someone high up perhaps Blinken himself who genuinely believes that for the good of humanity America must be diminished/despised)
3. Has ANY OTHER COUNTRY IN HISTORY ever pulled a stunt like this? Seriously, what cojones to even propose such a thing. Even if one were in private. With colleagues. Whilst drinking. Blowing off steam. At the end of a long workweek.