Opinion | Nothing about Moms for Liberty is new. That’s why they’re effective.
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As a professor who has written for over 20 years about conservatives and women, it’s clear to me that Moms for Liberty isn’t just another flash-in-the-pan organization

The Southern Poverty Law Center lists Moms for Liberty as an extremist group in its Year in Hate and Extremism report for 2022 for what it calls the group’s opposition to an inclusive public school environment.

  • LemmyLefty@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    SPLC’s description of Moms for Liberty.

    Here’s a quote to give you a taste:

    In 2021, a Tennessee chapter of Moms for Liberty was the first to file a complaint under the state’s new anti-CRT bill. The chapter took issue with a book by Ruby Bridges on her experiences integrating a school and also one on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., which they called, “Anti-American, Anti-White, and Anti-Mexican.” In their opinion, these books focused too much on the negatives of history and would prefer that their children’s schools have books that focus on heroes like Clarence Thomas, Morgan Freeman, and Condoleezza Rice. The chapter specifically took issue with Bridges recollections of a White mob yelling at her on her way to school and pictures of firemen hosing Black children in the MLK March on Washington. Instead, Moms for Liberty recommended using The Making of America to teach history. This 1985 book by conspiracy theorist and John Birch Society supporter W. Cleon Skousen portrays slave owners as the “worst victims of slavery” and claims that although the Founders wanted to free slaves, most slaves were unprepared for lives of freedom.

    Read the entire “In Their Own Words” section to get an idea of the way they think.

    Unfortunately, the article here isn’t enough: it briefly mentions one of the members citing Hitler and banning books, but this really isn’t an introductory article to the group. I could see people walking away from this thinking that they’re overbearing and out of touch, but that’s not what MFL is; they’re worse than that.

    • Boiglenoight@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      So they’re just white supremacists masquerading as Americans. No different than Proud Boys or Oathkeepers. These people are scum.

    • someguy3English
      2·
      1 year ago

      As Beau would say it: they want American mythology, but American history.

      • LemmyLefty@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Although ticket prices for the fundraisers ranged from $50 to $20,000 and the highest sponsorship package of the sold-out summit was $50,000, when asked about how the organization is funded, the group claimed that t-shirt sales were its “biggest source of funding.”

        Well-funded ones!