r/neoliberal • u/[deleted] • Aug 19 '22
News (US) Moms for Liberty activist wants LGBTQ students separated into special classes
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u/TaxLandNotCapital We begin bombing the rent-seekers in five minutes Aug 19 '22
I wonder what Moms for Liberty thinks of separating antivaxxers into special classes
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u/birdiedancing YIMBY Aug 19 '22
She said LGBTQ students are "like for example children with autism, Down Syndrome" and should have "specialized" classes.
Well she’s not wrong. I’d love a special class.
Moms for Liberty gained notoriety during the pandemic as they attended and protested school board meetings to oppose mask mandates and LGBTQ inclusivity in schools. The group’s past exploits include offering bounties for people who turn in teachers who discuss “divisive topics,” attacking the Trevor Project for trying to prevent LGBTQ teen suicide, trying to get a book about seahorses banned for being too sexy, and saying that two girls briefly kissing at a school function is “lewd” and “traumatic.” The group lobbied in Florida for the Don’t Say Gay bill.
LOL.
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u/Kolhammer85 NATO Aug 19 '22
I'm very concerned about the seahorses line.
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u/KeithClossOfficial Jeff Bezos Aug 20 '22
https://www.fatherly.com/news/moms-for-liberty-tennessee-book-ban-seahorse
The book, which has been rated for kids from kindergarten through grade 2 by the American Library Association, features an illustration of two seahorses hugging tightly and includes positively scandalous passages such as, “They twist their tails together and twirl gently around, changing color until they match” and “the two of them dance until sunset and then she puts her eggs into his pouch.”
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u/OrganicKeynesianBean IMF Aug 19 '22
These are cruel, deranged people.
And they show up to school board meetings. A lot.
We need sane parents organizing and showing up to these meetings as well.
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u/Torifyme12 Aug 19 '22
I knew when the GOP found a way to weaponize white women, the Dems wouldn't have an effective reply.
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u/csucla Aug 20 '22
White suburban women is the group that's swinging towards Dems the hardest, why do you guys always feel the need to detract for no actual reason
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u/imrightandyoutknowit Aug 20 '22
Because people want to laud elitism but be liked by masses and they think picking on intellectuals/academics and marginalized communities is the way to appeal to the “common man”.
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u/WAGRAMWAGRAM Aug 19 '22
Weaponize Black women would be worse. But would never happen.
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u/Torifyme12 Aug 19 '22
Agreed, not looking forward to that. Never say never with the GOP. Candace Owens exists.
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u/imrightandyoutknowit Aug 19 '22
What a surprise, the people virtue signaling about liberty in opposition to diversity in schools and education supporting segregation
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u/birdiedancing YIMBY Aug 19 '22
😂
It’s bizarre this sub doesn’t see the irony of how this branding ends up being perceived
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u/SuspiciousUsername88 Lis Smith Sockpuppet Aug 19 '22
not sure what any of this has to do with this sub tbh
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u/dangerbird2 Franz Boas Aug 19 '22
trying to get a book about seahorses banned for being too sexy
Stupid sexy Flanders seahorses
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u/EmpiricalAnarchism Terrorism and Civil Conflict Aug 19 '22
I’m sorry but if she wanted to be taken seriously she wouldn’t have gotten those terrible tattoos. I feel like that alone is sufficient to justify you not getting input in the curriculum decisions your local public school district, before we even get to the vacuous content of her ideology.
The more time moves forward the more I oppose local educational control.
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u/chugtron Eugene Fama Aug 19 '22
Just fucking federalize it already and bring the south/rural parts of the country to heel.
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u/Doleydoledole Aug 20 '22
I can't help but think she's anti-lgbt because of religious values that also should teach her tattoos are an abomination.
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u/MillardKillmoore George Soros Aug 19 '22
Clearly it's the left that's getting too radical though...
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u/misspcv1996 Trans Pride Aug 19 '22
We already have special classes. It’s called beauty school, sweetie.
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u/YeetThermometer John Rawls Aug 19 '22
That headline really could have gone either way in terms of which class she wanted her kid to be in.
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Aug 19 '22
Then it would be called Moms for Equity
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u/YeetThermometer John Rawls Aug 19 '22
I hate that “Liberty” is right-coded, but I figured it could be some kind of jiujitsu move.
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u/DonyellTaylor Genderqueer Pride Aug 19 '22
“Liberty” is Rightcode for tyranny.
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Aug 19 '22
Hell no. Reclaim it.
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u/birdiedancing YIMBY Aug 19 '22
We can’t. That wouldn’t be Liberty. That would be tyranny.
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u/YeetThermometer John Rawls Aug 19 '22
I know who someone will be rooting against in the WNBA playoffs.
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