Girl Scouts respond to backlash over since-deleted tweet celebrating Amy Coney Barrett: ‘We are neither red nor blue’

“This has been construed to be a political statement, but that was not our intention and we removed the post to minimize the negative conversation,” a spokesperson says. A Patrick Semansky/AP photo

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Girl Scouts respond to backlash over since-deleted tweet celebrating Amy Coney Barrett: “We are neither red nor blue.”

This year’s political wars have taken a new casualty: the Girl Scouts.

After the Girl Scouts congratulated US Appellate Court Justice and apparently super soccer mom Amy Coney Barrett on her elevation to the United States Supreme Court and as it has done for all of the four other women empaneled on the Supreme Court, three of whom were liberal appointees by Democratic presidents.

That and as the Girls Scouts have long done to honor all manner of other women who worked hard to reach prominent positions and which in turn offer inspirational models for young females, trolls on social media then savaged the Girls Scouts behind the wall of safety provided by their often anonymous abuse inflicted via the internet.

In turn, the Girl Scouts opted to do what they probably had no other option to undertake, not that the trolls will likely pick up on the not so subtle pushback.

And in a rare taking of a hard editorial position other than as regards local governance, Quincy Quarry finds it abjectly inexcusable to trash a youth organization with an enviable record of building character and skills among its young members, especially one all but free of the problems suffered within their male counterpoint.

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