Moms 4 Liberty- That word ("porn") doesn't mean what you think it means
Fascism and ignorance in skirts
Obviously this person's a hazard. Stupid people are dangerous.
Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.
Joan Rivers
Once upon a time, Moms For Liberty (M4L)was just a tiny, astonishingly dense, and inconsequential anti-masking group in Floriduh. Then, somewhere along the way, they began to attract attention, and their brand of hatred, arrogance, and ignorance began to spread outside of Floriduh. Before long, it took off like a torch tossed into a pool of gasoline.
Now, M4L is nationwide, so much so that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPCL) has labeled M4L as an extremist group, branding their ideology as “antigovernment general.” Sadly, that doesn’t begin to cover the breadth and depth of M4L’s hatred and bigotry.
The reasons why SPLC considers M4L to be an extremist group are sound and well-considered:
Moms for Liberty is an antigovernment organization founded in 2021 by former Florida school board members, Tiffany Justice and Tina Descovich. Current Sarasota County, Florida school board member, Bridget Ziegler, was also a co-founder. She has since left the group, leaving Justice and Descovich at the helm.
Moms for Liberty and its nationwide chapters combat what they consider the “woke indoctrination” of children by advocating for book bans in school libraries and endorsing candidates for public office that align with the group's views. They also use their multiple social media platforms to target teachers and school officials, advocate for the abolition of the Department of Education, advance a conspiracy propaganda, and spread hateful imagery and rhetoric against the LGBTQ community.
In their own words, it’s pretty clear that M4L isn’t about calm, rational discourse. These women are bat-shit crazy, intolerant as the day is long…and they don’t much care who’s aware of it because their agenda takes precedence over every sane and rational idea anyone else may have.
They make Libs of TikTok (Chaya Raichik) resemble a Girl Scout convention.
“The K-12 Cartel - also known as the National Teachers Union (NEA) - met and drafted a proposal to replace the word ‘Mother’ with ‘Birthing Person.’ This is insane and insulting to every mom in America. But don’t worry, relief is coming ... Because as the Teachers Union pushes an agenda focused on everything BUT educating our children, American Parents are rising up, taking back our school districts and putting the focus back on educating our children. To be clear - You will not be seeing ‘Moms for Liberty’ rebranded as ‘Birthing Persons for Liberty’ anytime soon.”
- Tiffany Justice, Moms for Liberty on Fox News on July 7, 2022“Gender dysphoria is a mental health disorder that is being normalized by predators across the USA. California kids are at extreme risk from predatory adults. Now they want to ‘liberate’ children all over the country. Does a double mastectomy on a preteen sound like progress?’
- Tweet from Moms for Liberty on July 25, 2022, tweet regarding California SB 107 gender transition bill that got their account suspended.“If I had any mental issues, they would have been plowed down with a gun by now.&rdqduo;
- Melissa “Missy” Bosch (Lonoke County, AR Chapter) was indicted for terroristic threatening towards the faculty and staff of Cabot School district. She was recorded musing about gunning down a school librarian.“The children are confused ... because of these insane agendas that are being shoved down their throats … Even the shooter — what, an 18-year-old transgender boy trying to be a girl?”
- Eulalia Jimenez (chair of Moms for Liberty, Miami Chapter) spreading disinformation about the Uvalde, Texas, shooter“We’ve got $500 for the person that first successfully catches a public school teacher breaking this law. Student, parents, teachers, school staff … We want to know! We pledge anonymity if you want.”
- Tweeted by Moms for Liberty NH on November 12, 2021, regarding the law banning the teaching of CRT and retweeted by national Moms for Liberty.
Yeah, these women are f*****g nuts.
Unfortunately, hatred, ignorance, and artless lies can circumnavigate the globe and be well into their second lap before the truth drags its sorry ass out of bed. People in this country, particularly those on the Right side of the political/ideological spectrum, are prone to believing the worst of educators for reasons that don’t make sense. Too many people think teaching is easy (Those who can’t, teach….), but I was a teacher for two years, and I’m here to tell you that managing a classroom is no easy feat- and I taught in private schools.
Perhaps some parents resent being unable to control the ideas other adults put into their children’s heads. They’re convinced THEY should be the ones indoctrinating their children, and they’re angry that LIBERAL teachers are filling the heads of their precious snowflakes with “woke” ideology.
Never mind that they can’t identify what’s “woke” about math, science, and other subjects. M4L wants to control school boards, schools, and curricula…and they’ve made inroads. Or at least they were making inroads in that direction until they were bitch-slapped by voters on Tuesday, Indecision 2023.
The problem with M4L is that they view compromise as capitulation. They don’t recognize any other view as valid save for their own. This accounts for the vitriol and disdain they direct toward those with the temerity to disagree with them.
The idea of having a reasoned, rational debate on issues relating to school curricula is beneath M4L. Because their attitude is “our way or no way,” they’d sooner burn things to the ground than find a mutually agreeable middle ground. Those who dare disagree with them are “groomers” and “child molesters” trying to force “woke” ideologies on impressionable children.
M4L doesn’t care about anything save its narrow agenda, and its members will do whatever may be necessary, no matter how ugly or underhanded, to achieve it. If it means ruining careers (or lives), M4L considers that part of its mission to “protect” children.
But the truth is that M4L’s mission has little, if anything, to do with protecting children. It’s about power. They want control over schools and their curricula. They want children to learn lessons that paint White Conservative Christian Cisgender Heterosexuals as the rightful owners of America. They want America’s children to be taught that America’s a Christian nation.
If that sounds like a racist, xenophobic, Christofascist, and homophobic agenda, it’s because it is. M4L claims to want to protect children against “indoctrination,” but the truth is they want to be in charge of conducting the indoctrination.
One might think that being designated an extremist group by the Southern Poverty Law Center might set the folks at M4L to thinking about their methods and message. A decent, moral person might think that, but M4L is led by and has attracted people who are neither decent nor moral. As a group, M4L is racist, intolerant, homophobic, xenophobic, and Christofascist.
These are the sort of soccer moms who smile as they’re figuring out how to bury a shiv in your back.
Their primary way to ensure that children aren’t exposed to dangerous “woke” ideas is to ban books they consider “pornographic.” If good and decent people don’t stand up to stochastic terrorists like M4L, before long, it will look like 1933 all over again.
M4L sees public education not as a means to teach American children to compare and contrast ideas and to think critically. They see public education as a means to teach children obedience- to their God, their government, and the White Conservative Christian Cisgender Heterosexual definition of America. They’re MAGA through and through, and there’s no talking to or negotiating with them. They want what they want, and they’ll get it or burn the country down if they can’t have it.
Mama must be SO proud.
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Moms 4 Fascism have nothing to do with liberty, and everything to do with license. You're absolutely right in the above: they care about nothing except power.