Masked Proud Boys Show Up at a School Board Meeting to Protest Critical Race Theory

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Tess Owen
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Masked Proud Boys are now crashing school board meetings to protest "Critical Race Theory."

The latest example of them attempting to build grassroots support by inserting themselves into hyper-local culture war dramas.

Masked Proud Boys Show Up at a School Board Meeting to Protest Critical Race Theory
It’s the latest incident in a series of Proud Boy appearances at the local political level across the U.S.
vice.com
10:55 AM · Jul 29, 2021

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dyvk7a/masked-proud-boys-show-up-at-a-school-board-meeting-to-protest-critical-race-theory

Proud Boys are raising the temperature in Nashua, New Hampshire, by showing up to school board meetings in their black-and-yellow uniforms and with their faces covered to protest anti-racist education.

Their presence is a menacing addition to an already tense situation. Like many communities across the U.S., Nashua, New Hampshire’s second-largest city, has become a flashpoint for national culture war issues. Discussions over school mask mandates in the past grew so heated that police are now present at each meeting.

But it’s the latest moral panic du jour that’s attracting members of the far-right street-fighting gang: “critical race theory.” Critical race theory originally applied to a 40-year-old academic movement focused on deconstructing systemic racism. Of late, the term has been co-opted by the GOP and Fox, who’ve claimed that any discussion about race in classrooms is racist. As a result, this issue has roiled school board meetings across the country.

Local activists posted photos of the group loitering by the school building holding flags, flashing their trademark “OK” sign (which has been co-opted by racists), and carrying signs saying things like “Marxism has no home here.” After a solitary Proud Boy showed up earlier this week and raised alarm bells, the local Black Lives Matter called on community members to rally at the next meeting. On Wednesday, about a dozen Proud Boys, joined by anti-maskers, showed up.

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[StarryNite]

1. A bunch of losers.

[msongs]

2. same was said about nazi brownshirts in the early days of that movement. we all know

how that went....

[RandiFan1290]

3. Just wait until they start attacking polling stations to destroy ballots before counting.

Coming soon

[Champp]

4. Holy Shit. These republicans are not boys at all.

They are actually grown republican men acting like spoiled, arrogant little boys.

How soul sick is that?

[spanone]

5. proud idiots.