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Archived on 4 May 2023 at 2:00am [URL redacted]
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Archived on 18 April 2023 at 8:00pm [URL redacted]
@HillaryFrisbey [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : @moms4liberty was mobbed by the cult TRANSURRECTIONISTS in the Florida State Capitol today. Many are recognized as known BLM/Antifa/Indivisible/Occupy phychos. #moms4liberty #woke #cult #tolerance #dysphoria #fl #protectthechildren #leavethekidsalone #M4L #justgettingstarted [URL redacted]

Supplementary #MagazineUSTheNewYorkerPaigeWilliams "In September, 2020--four months after the murder of George Floyd, two months before the Presidential election, and a month into Williamson County Schools' use of Wit & Wisdom--Christopher Rufo, a conservative activist, appeared on Tucker Carlson's show, on Fox News, and called critical race theory 'an existential threat to the United States.' Rufo capitalized on the fact that, given C.R.T.'s academic provenance, few Americans had heard of the concept. He argued that liberal educators, under the bland banner of 'diversity,' were manipulating students into thinking of America not as a vibrant champion of democracy but as a shameful embodiment of white supremacy. (As he framed things, there were no in-between positions.) Rufo later called C.R.T. 'the perfect villain'--a term that 'connotes hostile, academic, divisive, race-obsessed, poisonous, elitist, anti-American views.' Rufo found a receptive ear in President Donald Trump, who was already ranting about 'The 1619 Project,' the collection of Times Magazine essays in which slavery is placed at the heart of the nation's founding. On Twitter, Trump had warned that the Department of Education would defund any school whose classroom taught material from the project. Trump conferred with Rufo and banned federal agencies from conducting 'un-American propaganda training sessions' involving 'critical race theory' or 'white privilege.' Trump said that Black Lives Matter protests were proliferating not because of anger over police abuses but because of 'decades of left-wing indoctrination in our schools.' Establishing a '1776 Commission,' he urged 'patriotic moms and dads' to demand that schools stop feeding children 'hateful lies about this country.' (The American Historical Association condemned the Administration's eventual '1776 Report,' highlighting its many inaccuracies and arguing that it attempted to airbrush history and 'elevate ignorance about the past to a civic virtue.') Nearly nine hundred school districts nationwide were soon targeted by anti- C.R.T. campaigns, many of which adopted language that closely echoed Trump's order not to teach material that made others 'feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race or sex.' In some red states, the vague wording was enshrined as law. Republicans filed what became known as 'anti-C.R.T.' bills; they were seemingly cut and pasted from templates, with similarly phrased references to such terms as 'divisive concepts' and 'indoctrination.' Williamson County Schools was uneventfully wrapping up its first term with Wit & Wisdom when, in early December, 2020, the American Legislative Exchange Council, which generates model legislation for right-leaning lawmakers, hosted a Webinar about 'reclaiming education and the American dream.' A representative of the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank, warned that elements of a 'Black Lives Matter curriculum' were 'now in our schools.' Rufo--correctly predicting that Joe Biden, then the President- elect, would abolish Trump's executive order--urged state legislators and governors to take up the fight. Continuing the agitation wasn't just an act of fealty to Trump; it was cunning politics. The fear that C.R.T. would cause children to become fixated on race has resonated with enough voters to help tip important elections. Last November, Glenn Youngkin, a candidate for the governorship of Virginia, won an upset victory after repeatedly warning that the 'curriculum has gone haywire'--and promising to sign an executive order banning C.R.T. from schools. Jatia Wrighten, a political scientist at Virginia Commonwealth University, told the Washington Post that Youngkin had 'activated white women to vote in a very specific way that they feel like is protecting their children.' Days after the alec Webinar on 'reclaiming education,' three women in Florida filed incorporation papers for Moms for Liberty, Inc., later declaring that their 'sole purpose' was to 'fight for parental rights' to choose what sort of education was best for their kids. One of the organization's founders, Tina Descovich--who had recently lost reëlection to the school board of Brevard County, Florida, after opposing pandemic safety protocols--soon appeared on Rush Limbaugh's show. Declaring plans to 'start with school boards and move on from there,' she said of like-minded parents, 'It sounds a little melodramatic, but there is evil working against us on a daily basis.' maga media--'Tucker Carlson Tonight,' Breitbart--showcased Moms for Liberty. Media Matters, the liberal watchdog, argued that influential right-wing media figures were essentially 'recruiting their eager audience' for the Moms' campaign. Moms for Liberty, which is sometimes referred to as M4L or MFL, is so new that it is hard to parse, from public documents, what its leaders are getting paid. (The founders say that the chairs of local chapters are volunteers.) The group describes itself as a 'grassroots' organization, yet its instant absorption by the conservative mediasphere has led some critics to suspect it of being an Astroturf group--an operation secretly funded by moneyed interests. Moms for Liberty registered with the I.R.S. as the kind of social-welfare nonprofit that can accept unlimited dark money." https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/11/07/the-right-wing-mothers-fuelling-the-school-board-wars #AdvocacyUSManhattanInstituteForPolicyResearchChristopherRufo [Wikipedia] #NMUSFOXFNCTuckerCarlson #TheorySociologyCriticalRaceTheoryCRT #SlurWhiteSupremacy #PhenomnPolarisationDivisiveIssue #OtheringElitesLiberalCulturalEducated #PoliticsNationalismAmericanAnti #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #Cause1619Project #PhenomnWhitePrivilege #CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM #TauntIndoctrination #1776_Commission #1776_USDeclarationOfIndependence4thOfJuly #PoliticsPatriotism #OrgUSAmericanHistoricalAssociationAHA #AdvocacyUSAmericanLegislativeExchangeCouncilALEC #AdvocacyUSTheHeritageFoundation #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPGlennYoungkin #IRLScientistPoliticalJatiaWrighten #EDUUSVirginiaCommonwealthUniversity #ToponymAmericaNorthUSFloridaBrevardCounty #IRLShockJockRushLimbaugh #LiteralSchoolBoard #NMUSBreitbart #AdvocacyUSMediaMattersForAmericaMMFA_ #TheoryPerformativeActivismAstroturfing
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Archived on 27 November 2022 at 1:00pm [URL redacted]
@KailaBacilio [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [03]: 'Moms For Liberty' Ride Wave of Support for Non-#Woke Agenda, Vow to 'Unify, Educate & Empower' [URL redacted] [URL redacted]
#AdvocacyUSMomsForLiberty #NMRUSputnikNewsSvetlanaEkimenko "The social welfare non-profit, which actively opposes 'woke' cancel culture, the teaching of Critical Race Theory in schools, shared toilets and locker rooms for girls and boys, and the over-the-top focus on a pro-LGBTQ agenda, threw its weight behind more than 270 school board candidates nationwide. In Florida, at least 61 of the 67 candidates supported by the 'Moms' won, leaving the group 'thrilled.' 'Nationwide, over 50 percent of our candidates won, after the organization shifted its focus solely on school board elections, school board races and what was happening in education,' Tina Descovich, co-founder of the Moms for Liberty, told Sputnik." #CatchcryCancelCulture #TheorySociologyCriticalRaceTheoryCRT #PhenomnGenderNorms #MetaphorWarfareCultureLiberalEducation #IdentityLGBTQIA #LiteralSchoolBoard #ToponymAmericaNorthUSFlorida #AdvocacyUSMomsForLibertyTinaDescovich #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPRonDeSantisRDS
Supplementary https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d93qd/moms-for-liberty-proud-boys #OrgSyndicateMilitiaUSProudBoys
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Archived on 7 June 2022 at 4:00pm [URL redacted]
@EdwardDescombes [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [02]: #woke #wokegoestoshit #childabuse [URL redacted]
"Mom, what's the difference between a woman and a 'birthing person'? A woman is created by God. A 'birthing person' is created by your woke teacher's brain." #MetaphorWarfareCultureLiberalEducation #TheoryDeterminismBiologicalGenetic #DescriptionBirthingPeople #BeliefTheismDeityGodAllahYHWHJesusChristMessiah #MetaphorWarfareHeroGuardianOfChildhoodInnocence #CaricaturistPatrickCross #WebsiteTheCollegeFix
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Supplementary "A well-funded propaganda effort that intensified with MAGA's rise has depicted teachers as a dangerous force exerting outsized power over America's children. Panic about teachers 'indoctrinating' and 'brainwashing' students on behalf of alarming causes--and actively hiding it from parents--is standard fare on sites such as Heritage Foundation's and The Federalist and across the Murdoch universe. Social media teems with activists, acolytes, bots, and trolls echoing the fear-mongering. Legacy political media tends to frame this activity as part of culture wars designed to garner votes, and so it seemed around the 2022 midterms. The GOP exploited fears around children and schools and frustrations with pandemic schooling to win gubernatorial and legislative seats and politicize traditionally nonpartisan school boards, an effort that continues this cycle." https://annelutzfernandez.substack.com/p/teachers-are-dangerous-to-maga #PleaMAGA #TauntIndoctrination #TauntBrainwashed #AdvocacyUSTheHeritageFoundation #BrandFDRLSTMediaTheFederalist #BrandNewsCorpRupertMurdoch #MetaphorWarfareCulture #2022_ #EventUSMidtermElections #PhenomnMongeringFear #LiteralSchoolBoard #2024_ThePrivateersHowBillionairesCreatedACultureWarAndSoldSchoolVouchers #MetaphorWarfareHeroGuardianOfChildhoodInnocence
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Archived on 15 April 2022 at 2:45pm [URL redacted]
@KayaSeyboth [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : FURIOUS dad makes school board listen to sexually explicit material available to kids: #woke #agenda #filth [URL redacted]
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Archived on 1 January 2022 at 2:30pm [URL redacted]
@ReaganAmiri [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : A father letting rip on a #woke school board, what a guy 👍💥 @toadmeister @PrisonPlanet [URL redacted]
"best speach [sic] in a long time!" #MetaphorWarfareHeroGuardianOfChildhoodInnocence #PhenomnHomeSchooling #MetaphorWarfareCultureLiberalEducation
Supplementary The following concerns a US school board meeting, which might on might not relate to the archived image. #WebsiteSFGateAlecRegimbal [Wikipedia] "Perrine was expelled from the Sacramento County Republican Party in 2021 over his affiliation with the Proud Boys, a neo-fascist organization that promotes and engages in political violence in the U.S. His remarks at Thursday's meeting -- in which he echoed the homophobic trope that the LGBTQ community is full of 'pedophile groomers' -- were met with jeers from the audience. As board President Pete Constant tried to quell audience members, Perrine used his left hand to flash the crowd with the 'OK' symbol, a gesture that's recently become affiliated with white nationalists and other hate groups." https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/proud-boy-derails-school-board-meeting-in-norcal-17862657.php https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgaTJZcYsLE https://defashsac.noblogs.org/post/2023/06/28/exposed-jeffrey-perrines-neo-nazi-merch-shop/ #OrgSyndicateMilitiaUSProudBoysNorthernReservoir [tweet] #EDUUSRosevilleJointUnionHighSchoolDistrict [Wikipedia] #IdentityLGBTQIA #AdvocacyUSProjectVeritas #IdentityLGBTQIACodingHypersexualizationGrooming #SymbolGestureWhiteSupremacismOK #EDUUSWestParkHighSchool #ToponymAmericaNorthUSCaliforniaGreaterSacramentoPlacerCountyRoseville
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Archived on 23 October 2021 at 7:30pm [URL redacted]
@PattyEmil [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : Excellent work by @realchrisrufo and others! This is how to #FightBack against #Woke #Marxist #Progressive policies that are divisive, hate-mongering, and #Racist. #SoMuchWinning🇺🇸 [URL redacted] [URL redacted]
#MetaphorWarfareBattleFight #TheoryMarxism #PhenomnPolarisationDivisiveIssue #PhenomnMongeringHate #CatchcryRacismWoke
Context post responds to tweet by #AdvocacyUSManhattanInstituteForPolicyResearchChristopherRufo [Wikipedia] [tweet] criticising #OrgUSNationalSchoolBoardsAssociationNSBA [Wikipedia] as per the following [fact-checked] claim "U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said that he couldn't even 'imagine a circumstance' where 'parents complaining' at a school board meeting would be 'labeled as domestic terrorism.' Yet, several Republicans have continued to falsely claim Garland called such parents 'terrorists.' The nugget of truth behind the political spin is that a letter from the National School Boards Association to Garland last fall argued some violent threats against school officials 'could be the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism' that would warrant the intervention of federal law enforcement. In his response, Garland directed his agency to review strategies to address violent threats and harassment against school boards, but he didn't use the NSBA's 'terrorism' language, for which the group later apologized." [pdf] #OrgUSFedDptOfJusticeDOJMerrickGarland #MetaphorWarfareHeroGuardianOfChildhoodInnocence #LiteralSchoolBoard
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Archived on 12 August 2021 at 8:45pm [URL redacted]
@ZanderBillman [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [20]: Teachers try to silence parents & indoctrinate children so this mother stands up! #crt #criticalracetheory #woke #schools #brave #mother #indoctrination #marxism #america #antiracism #racism [URL redacted]
Christine Jurgen ?
Supplementary "The same chilling scene is playing out at school board meetings across the country: an angry mob of mostly white parents circle a podium -- one defiantly stands in front of it, spewing rhetoric they likely learned on Fox News and talking points emboldened by YouTube rabbit holes and far-right politicians touting lies as policies. They're yelling about banning books to protect children from 'indoctrination' when they're the ones trying to brainwash a generation into believing racism doesn't exist and that history didn't happen. Inevitably, someone -- the podium mouthpiece or a cry from the crowd -- will utter the word at the center of the fight for censorship and the push against progress: 'woke.'" https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2023/02/11253627/woke-meaning-co-opted-politics #LiteralSchoolBoard
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