I’d rather see less of bigots on TV, but if they have to brought on stage, it should be to expose them. Like this:
Two of the founders of the group, Tiffany Justice and Tina Descovich, sat for an interview with reporter Scott Pelley and had a difficult time answering pretty simple and direct questions.
“We love teachers. My children have had the best teachers. I’ve had the greatest teachers that have influenced and impact me. But there are rogue teachers in America’s classrooms right now,” Descovich told Pelley. Justice added, “Parents send their children to school to be educated, not indoctrinated into ideology.”
Pelley asked, “What ideology are they being indoctrinated into?” Whether something short-circuited inside Descovich’s brain is hard to say, but after taking a breath and swallowing, she slowly answered, “Let’s just say … children in America cannot read.” Huh?
Pelley repeatedly pointed out that the two were being “evasive,” and when Justice attempted to pivot to a handful of books with sexual content that may be inappropriate for certain age groups, his report was quick to point out that “Most people wouldn’t want them in a lower school. But in a tactic of outrage politics, Moms for Liberty takes a kernel of truth and concludes: These examples are not rare mistakes, but a plot to sexualize children.”
The pair of buffoons also claimed that Moms for Liberty was not anti-gay, which is transparently absurd. Pelley showed them tweets where they are accusing teachers of being “groomers,” which prompted them to quickly shuffle their papers and change topics.
You know, we might be in trouble someday if these right-wingers ever acquired any intelligent spokespersons. I guess intelligent people don’t fall for their lies, though.
By the way, they mad.
Yeah, that’s what happens when you ban all the books.
Tiffany Justice is upset that 60 Minutes edited her interview. She’d cringe if she actually saw what the raw footage looks like. the editing probably made her look better than she deserves.
A headline today stated that DT’s supporters either don’t notice or don’t care about his obvious mental decline. The audience for this pair is the same.
MoFo’s for Liberty promoted the election of authoritarian religious nutcases to a school board resulting in the elimination of all 37 librarian positions in the district who can bid for their old jobs that have been transformed into 10 position as “media center specialists.” The libraries will be repurposed.
Sound fanciful? Houston ISD has already eliminated some librarian positions, cleaned out the libraries and turned them into detention centers for miscreants, n’er do wells, scofflaws and hippies. Alternative education, they call it, like alternative facts.
Crip Dyke @ #1 — And cut funding for education, or worse, divert the money to voucher systems (a la Texas) so parents can send their kids church schools where they can be indoctrinated into that BS.
And speaking of liberty, “Liberty” “University” just got fined $14 million for covering up sex crimes and intimidating victims.
Where have we heard this before.
“I have a list here of 50 Communists in the State Department.”
“I have a list here of 500 Commies in the State Department.”
“I have a list here of 5,000 Commies in the State Department and in the Pentagon.”
This is McCarthyism.
A modern day updated version of the Witch Hunts of the Dark ages.
And hopefully, it will work about the same.
In fact, it is now working about the same.
The misnamed Mothers for Witch Hunts in the schools don’t have a lot of support and routinely get called out on their lack of anything worthwhile to say or do.
Strangely enough, this person has accidently said something that is true.
There are definitely rogue teachers in the public schools.
They are almost all fundie xian christofascists who try to bring in their religious ideology and indocrinate the students in fundieism.
Data.
This is 13% of biology teachers teaching creationism in our schools.
There are more teachers doing whatever they can get away with to proselytize students into whatever variety of xianity they belong to.
This is all illegal and rarely noticed or stopped anyway.
I’m in a small rural Missouri town and occasionally work with recent graduates of the local high school. I discovered there is a much-beloved science teacher there that gets a lot of credit for conveying scientific principles and theories in a way that his students find enjoyable graspable. So, talking with one of his former students about some scientific fundamental that applied to the job we were working on (I was mentoring him on an automotive repair), the conversation touched on living things. Long story short, this student doesn’t accept evolution or a lot of geology. Turns out Mr. Popular science teacher is also an evangelical Christian, along with most of the student body he has access to.
North Carolina GOP Nominee To Lead Public Schools Was At Jan. 6, Called Islam ‘Evil’
‘You know, we might be in trouble someday if these right-wingers ever acquired any intelligent spokespersons. I guess intelligent people don’t fall for their lies, though.”
Unfortunately, there are some intelligent people who are corrupt enough to lie deliberately for personal gain. I can think of some Supreme Court justices who fit that description.
@7: Raven, I’m afraid you’ve just demonstrated the deficiencies of American education in math, too. There are exactly fifty-seven card-carrying Communists in the Department of Defense. Now, how about a nice game of solitaire…
(Does that really need a <sarcasm> tag on it?)
Sorry, this isnt’ really relevant, but it’s a bugbear of mine… While the term “Dark Ages” isn’t really popular academically any more, when it was, it referred to the period between the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 6th C, through to around the 10th C. The first systematic witch hunt in Europe occurred in the 15th C, but witch hunting didn’t really get going properly until the 16th C, and continued for around 200 years. Large scale European witch hunting is closer to today than to the “Dark Ages”.
“Parents send their children to school to be educated, not indoctrinated into ideology.”
At this point, a liberal commentator falls over themselves to loudly proclaim that they DON’T indoctrinate children or want. To which I always ask “Why the fuck not?”
If “The Left” doesn’t “indoctrinate” the of the children then The Right certainly will, or are you so naive that you think people will stop being greedy, credulous, feral animals and accept equality social justice and scientific reality on their own?
@14: Once upon a time, during my misspent high school days (before a certain former cigarette salesman became President), less than 30km away from Our Gracious Host, I did what most of the male “student leaders” of the time did: I applied for and attended Boys’ State. Which was sponsored by a certain prominent veterans’ organization to which, on the basis of that application form that I carefully read so I walked into it with my eyes wide open, I determined that I would never join. (The other one, historically, isn’t any better.) Hey, I was resume-building…
Right there… on the application form… in the middle of the other side… but neither in bold type nor quotated… was the statement of purpose, including the following:
Participating students will be indoctrinated with traditional American values.
Y’all can infer the probability that a “national veterans’ organization” with (literally) no non-white-Christian leadership at the state or national level, during the couple years following the fall of Saigon, included “tolerance of anyone not likely to have been a cast member on Leave It to Beaver or Happy Days” in “traditional American values.”