It seems crazy until large swaths of those same people start saying the quiet part loud.
Still, there's an aspect of this that's well illustrated in a different public institution.
Even the people who didn't watch the Rittenhouse trial generally know the meme of judge Schroeder shouting, "Don't get brazen with me!" at prosecutor Binger. The reason for the exchange was that Binger referenced comments that Rittenhouse made weeks before the incident that Schroeder deemed inadmissable. What Binger was clearly doing was trying to save his dying case by attempting to manipulate the jury. The thing is, there's a reason why shit like what Binger pulled is grounds for mistrial, even mistrial with prejudice, in our legal system -- once it's out there, the judge can have the statements stricken from the record and order the jury to disregard what they heard; but, the jury can't unhear it. It's a way to plant an idea in people's heads in an attempt to influence them to act in your favor under the assumption that you can break the rules at great expense to another person, and get away with it by saying "sorry."
Heavily sexualized drag performances are already happening in some American public schools. Still, last year, the UK took the cake when a public library shocked parents and children alike when Rainbow Dildo Butt Monkey showed up to entertain four to eleven-year-old kids. They were pulling the same tactic as Binger. They were breaking the rules and doing something that they knew was wrong, and they did that because they knew that it was a way to get into the minds of impressionable children with little potential consequences for themselves. Issuing a half-assed apology on Twitter isn't appropriate contrition for having a grown man twerk his bare ass and wag a footlong dildo in front of nine-year-olds' faces.
Still, the image is forever in the kid's minds. Nobody consented. The parents were unaware and kids can't consent. These employees of the state knew what they were doing.
The state employees in the Iowa school district that invited the drag performance that drove Kimberly Reicks to show up to a school board meeting in the same skimpy outfit to make a point about what is appropriate for children knew what they were doing.
This is happening a lot. A lot of vocal wokesters want to deconstruct childhood innocence and feel vindicated in doing so regardless of what the parents think. Wokesters like Alok have gone so-far as to write that young girls aren't innocent, and are, in fact, "kinky." Joseph J. Fischel, a woke professor at Yale, has written extensively in favor of dismissing consent as a factor in sex -- he literally wrote a book entitled Screw Consent.
You'd have to be blind to not see what they're doing. They're planting seeds in our children. They know that they're doing it. They know that it's wrong, and we know that they know that it's wrong because they lie about it. But, they figure that they're grooming political allies and that the end justifies the means.