You can tell that liberals are panicked that those white suburban moms they were counting on to vote to preserve abortion rights are actually more concerned about what’s going on in their kids’ schools. They saw what happened in Virginia when gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe brought Randi Weingarten on stage to endorse him and told the media that parents shouldn’t have a say in what their kids are being taught — leave that up to the experts, he said. McAuliffe got roasted by those “domestic terrorists” who started pushing back at the liberal agenda being fed to their children.
The New Yorker has a piece out looking at “the right-wing mothers fueling the school-board wars.” There’s a war brewing in America, we’re being warned.
There is a war brewing in America and it will be fought not in the halls of Congress or the battlefield or the White House ellipse, but in fluorescent-lit school board meetings across the country. 🧵
— emilyinyourphone (@emilyinurphone) November 3, 2022
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— emilyinyourphone (@emilyinurphone) November 3, 2022
Over the last two years we’ve seen a huge increase of moms becoming rightwing school board activists. It started with masks, school closures and vaccines but has now morphed into book banning, eviscerating curriculums, teacher threatening and a grand plan to end public education.
— emilyinyourphone (@emilyinurphone) November 3, 2022
Curriculum evisceration and teacher threatening. Oh, and a grand plan to end public education … where do we sign up?
Oh, look, more insight from The Daily Beast about former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
https://t.co/KBL2G7bOyW
— emilyinyourphone (@emilyinurphone) November 3, 2022
“‘School choice’ is a rhetorical dodge. It’s actually all about entrenching right-wing power, control, and Christian nationalism” … writes Wajahat Ali. Yeah, OK. We’ve been told before that homeschooling should be banned because it promotes white supremacy. Has Ali ever met a Christian he didn’t hate? Oh, and how does this explain the Muslim parents speaking out at school board meetings in Dearborn, Michigan?
What feels organic is actually a well-funded effort supported by the highest levels of the conservative machine to make ‘mama bears’ the tip of the spear in their culture war. It’s led by Moms for Liberty (m4L) and a constellation of PACs and other groups that run on dark money.
— emilyinyourphone (@emilyinurphone) November 3, 2022
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— emilyinyourphone (@emilyinurphone) November 3, 2022
Rolling Stone … another peerless source. Haven’t they been sued out of existence yet?
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— emilyinyourphone (@emilyinurphone) November 3, 2022
‘Age appropriate education’ is a way to remove sex ed from schools, vilify trans people and erase lgbtq+ people from society. The movement is fueled by moral panic and a belief that their religion, their morals, their system of understanding humanity is the best and only way.
— emilyinyourphone (@emilyinurphone) November 3, 2022
Remove sex-ed from kindergarten through third grade? Again, sign us up, please.
https://t.co/6D1ZzuI8Y7
— emilyinyourphone (@emilyinurphone) November 3, 2022
The entire exercise is phrased as a war between good and evil. They call themselves “joyful warriors.” Tina Descovich one of the founders of M4L said on Rush Limbaugh’s show: “It sounds a little melodramatic, but there is evil working against us on a daily basis.”
— emilyinyourphone (@emilyinurphone) November 3, 2022
How long has Rush Limbaugh been off the air?
Anti-abortion activist Allie Stuckey recently said in a speech at an M4L event “Anyone who tries to stand between us and our children will be removed from power …we will rally and fundraise and make noise until you are stripped of your titles and ridden of your power.”
— emilyinyourphone (@emilyinurphone) November 3, 2022
And?
We should not underestimate the power of these women. Steve Bannon said “the path to save the nation is … through the school boards.” For many this is a mission from god and they are media savy, ripe for virality and know how to break and re-build the system from the inside.
— emilyinyourphone (@emilyinurphone) November 3, 2022
No, you should not underestimate the power of these women.
https://t.co/DowpiKeIyj
— emilyinyourphone (@emilyinurphone) November 3, 2022
We promise you, this thread does end.
If you want to see if your school board candidates are m4L look for phrases like parents choice, age appropriate education, protecting children, securing our schools, transparency in education, back to basics and mama bear. See my Insta for a post with more tips @EmilyInYourPhone
— emilyinyourphone (@emilyinurphone) November 3, 2022
Yeah, no.
Amazing thread from a leftist detailing why moms who don’t want their kids given porn at schools are so scary. I get a personal shoutout, which I appreciate. https://t.co/qHH3yLzH2J
— Allie Beth Stuckey (@conservmillen) November 3, 2022
The quote tweets give me LIFE pic.twitter.com/ISGZll1Dnn
— Allie Beth Stuckey (@conservmillen) November 3, 2022
Oh no! Not choice! Not age appropriate! Not transparency! Not parental involvement! I thought Halloween was over yet here I am so scared https://t.co/IOJGG2PEMX
— Allie Beth Stuckey (@conservmillen) November 3, 2022
They are scared! Love the winning. Keep it up.
— Masshole Patriot (@sullyboy53066) November 3, 2022
This is great news. Means they are nervous.
— Megan 🍂 (@mrsdobbins_) November 3, 2022
I’m a wildly underpaid evil cabal operative.
— Kind Scribe (@kindscribe) November 3, 2022
I can’t imagine the mind of someone who actually buys into every single progressive idea imaginable. Never mind centuries, even millennia, of human individual & societal thought/behavior for the good. Everything “today” is best, and everything past not only regressive but evil.
— Jon Gregory (@JohnnyPaxil) November 3, 2022
That’s why this editor thinks that so many liberals are eager to separate themselves from “America” — our country isn’t perfect (e.g., see slavery) and so they can’t associate with it. Everything in history goes in the trash bin and we start over with the “1619 Project.”
But they are cool with letting a child make life changing alterations to their body right? Makes sense
— r00k⚡️ (@r00k817) November 3, 2022
She really warns people to look out for parents advocating for protecting their children, school choice, and age appropriate education like these are bad things… no, this is what most sane parents want.
— Ryan (@rcam_tv) November 3, 2022
Our enemies are so blind that we only have ourselves to blame if we lose.
— ((DarkTechObserver)) (@DarkTechMonitor) November 3, 2022
Parents concerned about “porn” in the school library are prohibited from showing images from “Gender Queer” at school board meetings because they’re pornographic. And they’re not having it.
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Editor’s Note:
Related:
Mom reads to school board from book for middle schoolers which explains how to use sex apps like Grindr https://t.co/XxMlykuzX0
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) October 15, 2022