They are ‘hard-right, anti-government’ bogey-men threatening the lives of the LGBTQ+ and ‘democracy’!
Or so went the general exclamation of the far-left, Southern Poverty Law Centre (SPLC) in its latest ‘non-Democrats-are-domestic-terrorists’ dossier.
SPLC’s Year in Hate and Extremism 2022 blacklist registered parents’ rights groups alongside ‘right-wing’ fringe organisations, because of their general disagreement with the Woke agenda.
‘Belief in strict, “traditional” gender roles is at the core of hard-right ideology, while resistance to feminism, combined with a belief that modern society emasculates men, has grown on the right. Tucker Carlson this year produced a fearmongering documentary called “The End of Men,” while longtime conservative establishments including the Claremont Institute published a flurry of articles warning, for example, that “woke communists” are “determined to destroy traditional sex roles as part of their project to destroy America”.’
Clarifying terms, SPLC said hate groups ‘are those who hold beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people’.
Anti-government extremists are people who ‘see the federal government as an enemy of the people and promote baseless conspiracy theories’.
Notably absent from the ‘tracking report on hate and violence’ were mentions of far-left hate and anti-government groups such as Antifa, Black Lives Matter Inc., or Critical Race Theory’s ‘all white people are racist’ activist organisations.
In its hate speech report, SPLC claimed parents’ rights groups were a ‘guise’ for far-right extremism.
‘Schools, especially, have been on the receiving end of ramped-up and coordinated hard-right attacks, frequently through the guise of “parents’ rights” groups. These groups were, in part, spurred by the right-wing backlash to Covid public safety measures in schools. But they have grown into an anti-student inclusion movement that targets any inclusive curriculum that contains discussions of race, discrimination and LGBTQ identities.’
They then added:
‘At the forefront of this mobilization is Mums for Liberty, a Florida-based group with vast connections to the GOP that this year the SPLC designated as an extremist group.’
For declaring, ‘We do NOT CO-PARENT with the GOVERNMENT,’ and for their efforts in pushing back against the Woke war on everything, SPLC singled out Mums For Liberty, ‘designating’ the initiative an ‘extremist group’.
Alleging ties with Republicans, SPLC framed the non-partisan mum alliance as a domestic terrorist organisation, stating, ‘they hijack meetings, and prevent officials, and parents from conducting their normal proceedings’.
For proof, SPLC appealed to a WaPo recount from a teacher’s union official, who cried:
‘I can be sitting in a meeting minding my own business, and they turn around and scream at me that I am a commie and teachers want to see all kids fail.’
These ordinary mums are not new, SPLC discounted.
They were the ‘moral majority’ in the 1980s, and today they’re masking ‘far-right activist’ hate as ‘concern for children’.
SPLC then inferred that ‘the group’s primary goals are to fuel right-wing hysteria and to make the world a less comfortable or safe place for certain students – primarily those who are Black, LGBTQ or who come from LGBTQ families’.
Responding to the SPLC, Mums For Liberty Co-founder, Tina Descovich quipped:
‘At this point, who isn’t on the SPLC list?’
Before adding: ‘We see your game SPLC. Label us an extremist group then label anyone that associates with us an extremist too. Someone should tell SPLC, Americans are smarter than that.’
Also responding, House Republicans, led by mum of four, Lisa McClain (R-Mich), replied with an official Resolution condemning SPLC’s actions.
The House ‘pushed back against the extremist label’ saying, ‘…all students should feel welcome in their classroom, but radical far-left ideas inappropriate for minors should not.’
Additionally, the House response said:
‘Teaching about slavery and racism should be part of the curriculum.’
However, CRT ‘courses centred around the false belief that America is systemically structurally, or institutionally racist should not’.
It is not, the resolution concluded, ‘…extreme or hateful to believe that parents, not the government, should have the final say in their children’s education.’
Ron DeSantis’ Press Secretary, Bryan Griffin offered his support.
Describing the SPLC designation as ‘absurd,’ he asserted:
‘We’re proud to stand with Mums For Liberty. Ron DeSantis as president will stop the agenda of sexualising our nation’s children. If that makes us your “extremists”, we wear the title as a badge of honour.’
This @splcenter inquiry is so absurd it's worth a public response.
We're proud to stand with @Moms4Liberty. And @RonDeSantis as president will stop the agenda of sexualizing our nation's children. If that makes us your "extremists," we wear the title as a badge of honor. pic.twitter.com/FMP8bKKGtF— Bryan Griffin (@BryanDGriffin) June 16, 2023
Other GOP 2024 candidates speaking out included Nikki Haley, who said:
‘It’s NOT “extremist” to save women’s sports. It’s NOT “extremist” to make sure parents have a say in their children’s education. It IS extremist to call a group of patriotic mums a ‘hate group.’
Likewise, 2024 hopeful Tim Scott backed Mums For Liberty. Scott told The Daily Signal, SPLC was using ‘race as a weapon against their political opponents. Kids should be educated, not indoctrinated’.
Speaking to the ethnic mix among women who make up Mums for Liberty, Scott said, ‘These are mums who want their kids to learn the ABCs, not CRT.’
Exaggerating fake-hate is the far-left way.
The Biden administration was rebuked in late March for abusing its power when, on October 4, 2021 the Department of Justice treated concerned parents as Domestic Terrorists for exercising their parental rights.
SPLC is simply dancing to the Woke White House’s tune.
This article was first published at CaldronPool.
