There’s routine cases of institutional actors like teachers and their unions trying to groom kids into being “trans”, without talking to the parents.
Counter culture is saying that you’re not allowed to do that — eg, that drag queen story time is a bad idea.
That's not happening except in the fevered minds of the far-right. Get a grip.
It's nothing but a moral panic we've seen again and again (in the 60s hippies, 70s punks, 80s goths and Satanists, then gay people, now furries and trans people - all coming for your kids)
Meanwhile we endlessly discover Catholics, Southern Baptists and other sects have actually systemically covered up child abuse by their leaders across the US. But you don't see anyone warning you against bringing your kid to church.
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Can you cite more than one example when and where this has happened?
https://mobile.twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1618271512158...
And that's just within the past two weeks.
There are a great many subcultures that would like legal boundaries shifted, and when they care enough they become interest groups participating in the democratic process.
Even the blandest bland blandy that ever blanded is not going to agree with all the laws and societal boundaries being set exactly the way they are. Either that means there's no such thing as a mainstream culture, or we have to understand noisy clashes between subcultures don't make one or the other a counter culture.
I think the way we're discussing that something obviously SUBculture is being confused for a COUNTERculture is an argument in OPs favor that we don't have much (highly visible) counterculture right now.
A counterculture is in the face of the mainstream culture, trying to change the cult. It is countering the mainstream. It is activist or, at the least, unabashed with the intention of normalization.