. . . with many of the rituals in Cub Scouts alluding to Kipling's Seonee Wolfpack.
The Jungle Book will always remain one of my favorites, and the story "Letting in the Jungle" my favorite of the collection. I still have a soft spot in my heart for Just-So Stories, too -- especially "The Elephant's Child", "The Cat Who Walked By Himself", and the one about inventing the alphabet.
My point is: people who read Kipling now have (I hope) moved on from 19th Century colonial paternalism, just as people who read Twain have moved on from racism. They can understand why certain passages read a certain way within historical context, without having to adopt archaic attitudes as their own.
Not so, it seems, with the Boy Scouts.
"I don't know - I've never kippled"
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and the Boy Scouts were born in 1910 . . .
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- Another victory for the ACLU
- The Boy Scouts require that members affirm belief in God... or lie about it.
- And people keep thinking the ACLU is a neutral protector of civil rights.
- Those Boy Scouts are dangerous subversives. They should be arrested and sent to Siberia. What a load of crap! (n/t)