Phil, regarding the conservative uproar over Pride-themed baby onesies, you make a good point about proportionality, but I think there is something else to consider.
Why do LGBTQ ideologues continually project their controversial adult ideas and behaviors onto children? The “call them groomers” crowd may say it’s to sexualize them. But the motivation is more ideological than sexual. Activists are fighting to normalize and sanitize the harder-to-sell parts of their message by using children as a front.
The middle-aged man with a sexual fetish for dressing in his wife’s clothing wants us to focus on the sweet and innocent “transgender” 10-year-old. The gay men commissioning surrogates want us to focus on the cute babies and not their absent mothers. One consequence, then, is that controversial sexual practices are glossed over — thanks to their ideological association with children.
Kohl’s Pride display may be “cringey corporate virtue-signaling,” but it is insidious, nonetheless. A onesie is just a onesie. And that’s the point.