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Moms for Liberty, the far-right parental group known for protesting at school board meetings, has been identified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a "hate group" for the first time ever.
Moms for Liberty, which recently said it knows liberal groups are spying on its activities because it's doing the same thing to them, is among 12 parental groups added to the SPLC's list of hate groups, according to USA Today.
"The Southern Poverty Law Center is for the first time labeling Florida-headquartered Moms for Liberty and 11 other right-wing 'parents' rights' groups as extremist groups in its annual report, released today," USA Today wrote.
"Moms for Liberty and the other organizations are being designated as 'anti-government extremist groups,' based on longstanding criteria, explained SPLC Intelligence Project Director Susan Corke. Corke said the grassroots conservative groups are part of a new front in the battle against inclusivity in schools, though they are drawing from ideas rooted in age-old white supremacy."
According to the report, Corke noted: The movement is primarily aimed at not wanting to include our hard history, topics of racism, and a very strong push against teaching anything having to do with LGBTQ topics in schools. We saw this as a very deliberate strategy to go to the local level.
More: https://www.rawstory.com/bank/moms-for-liberty/
Hate Group. Good, name them for what they are.
RKP5637
(67,104 posts)Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)Native
(5,942 posts)Nevilledog
(51,080 posts)AllaN01Bear
(18,168 posts)orangecrush
(19,543 posts)Hekate
(90,646 posts)liberalla
(9,242 posts)IronLionZion
(45,432 posts)Some of these "moms" don't have any children enrolled in these schools but just want to show of their dildo collection and share their favorite steamy passages of books. Maybe these ladies got thrown out of their local book clubs.
sheshe2
(83,746 posts)ShazzieB
(16,370 posts)It's such a quick, easy way to make themselves look all pure and innocent. What could be more innocuous and less threatening than a bunch of "moms" looking out for their children's welfare, am I right?
I'm not at all surprised to learn that the innocent front is a facade that hides more sinister motives. Not. One. Bit.
Otterdaemmerung
(71 posts)Just like "One Million Moms," which is actually a division of the hate group American Family Association. For "one million," their press releases always feature just one person.
IronLionZion
(45,432 posts)dalton99a
(81,455 posts)brer cat
(24,560 posts)AntivaxHunters
(3,234 posts)Awesome 😎
Ford_Prefect
(7,892 posts)Celerity
(43,330 posts)sheshe2
(83,746 posts)Celerity
(43,330 posts)the blonde in red especially, screaming about anal sex over and over
sheshe2
(83,746 posts)CrispyQ
(36,458 posts)I would have laughed except that she's actually been voted into Congress more than once.
Celerity
(43,330 posts)the Moms For Liberty idiots (yet, and hopefully it stays that way).
CrispyQ
(36,458 posts)Just throwin' some of their own vile shit back at them.
Celerity
(43,330 posts)MTG 'dated' a tantric sex guru who incorporated Buddhist tantric and neo tantric practices
they can get quite hardcore, and anal sex (and beyond, in more extreme cases) is a part of some of the rites
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantric_sex#In_Buddhism
Buddhist sexual rites were incorporated from Shaiva tantra, becoming even more explicitly erotic and transgressive in the process. Deities like Vajrayogini, sexually suggestive and streaming with blood, overturn traditional separation between intercourse and menstruation. Some extreme texts would go further, such as the 9th-century Buddhist text Candamaharosana-tantra, which advocated consumption of bodily waste products of the practitioner's sexual partner, like wash-water of her anus and genitalia. Those were thought to be "power substances", teaching the waste should be consumed as a diet "eaten by all the Buddhas."
In some forms of Buddhism, tantric sex is strongly associated with the practice of semen retention, as sexual fluids are considered an energetic substance that must be reserved. Many Buddhist tantric works direct the focus away from sexual emission towards retention and intentionally prolonged bliss, thus "interiorizing" the tantric offering of fluids directed to the deities.
Vajrayogini
Ford_Prefect
(7,892 posts)an "Astro Turf operation" purporting to be spontaneous and grassroots, but created by hidden elite interests.
While the Tea Party was financed and coordinated by Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE), a Koch Bros. political action front group, one of many generated for the Koch family enterprises by Richard Fink. Money and strategy also came from Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds who were developing state level coalitions through their front group Freedomworks led by Dick Armey, to block state and federal legislation along with taxes they didn't want.
More recently other billionaire American oligarchs, such as the Walton Family (Walmart) along with others less visible like Harlan Crow or Leonard Leo, have promoted and steered what has morphed into what we often call the MAGA movement. A modern edition of the violent and racist brown shirt fascist bullies of early NAZI days.
This is to say nothing about the influence, social media trolling, and GOP subordination by Putin's FSB (formerly KGB).
Celerity
(43,330 posts)Initech
(100,064 posts)Fuck the MAGA Christian Taliban!
drray23
(7,627 posts)is that the more patriotic sounding the group name is, the more likely its a right wing group.
e.g mons for liberty, patriot front, make America Great again, etc...
MontanaMama
(23,308 posts)Wild blueberry
(6,625 posts)SouthernDem4ever
(6,617 posts)I certainly do hate that group.
Takket
(21,563 posts)JustAnotherGen
(31,813 posts)On our school board - she's awful.
sheshe2
(83,746 posts)So sorry to hear that, JAG.
Cha
(297,154 posts)Cheezoholic
(2,016 posts)Boy we need Frank to rise again
NowISeetheLight
(3,943 posts)They're religious fanatics and racists. Screw them.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,130 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(145,130 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,237 posts)YoshidaYui
(41,831 posts)terrorist group, Easily.
reACTIONary
(5,770 posts)... is very careful how they label groups. They have published criteria for several different categories, and when evaluating and labeling a group they justify the label by reference to that criteria. This is one of their strong points - they don't just fling around smears, they research, categorize and justify their assessments.
The SPLC did not designate Moms for Liberty as a "hate group". They designated them as a "general anti-government" group.
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/moms-liberty
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/antigovernment-general
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology
Baitball Blogger
(46,700 posts)I want to put this on a site that has a strict moderator.
Celerity
(43,330 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,700 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,725 posts)CrispyQ
(36,458 posts)Moms for Liberty, which recently said it knows liberal groups are spying on its activities because it's doing the same thing to them...
SMDH
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)They are a hate group indeed.