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Liberal parents are joining the school culture wars — but conservatives are way ahead
NBC News ^ | Oct 22, 2022 | Tyler Kingkade

Posted on 10/22/2022 3:36:51 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?

Liberal parents concerned about the right’s increased focus on school board elections are ready to fight back — but they face obstacles in fundraising and organizing, with little national support.

Over the past year, dozens of progressive activist organizations and political action committees have launched or reoriented themselves to counter conservatives who have brought the fight over culture war issues to school board races.

These liberal groups — including Red, Wine & Blue, a national effort; the Florida Freedom to Read Project, which two Florida mothers formed to combat book bans; and Defense of Democracy, started by two mothers in Fishkill, New York, who were unsettled by what they saw as Christian nationalists targeting school boards — have begun endorsing candidates, distributing campaign signs and training parents to speak out in support of diversity programs, transgender accommodations and books about racial conflicts and LGBTQ issues.

But in contrast to the conservative parent groups that quickly attracted support from prominent Republican politicians, think tanks and TV commentators, these left-leaning parents have received little national political backing. High-profile Democrats and many progressive organizations have largely avoided wading into the increasingly heated debates over policies and lessons on race and gender in schools.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: porn4kids; publicschool; transgender; woke; wokeschools
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" left-leaning parents have received little national political backing."

What crap, they have the school boards, teachers' unions, DOJ, the entire Rat party, etc.

1 posted on 10/22/2022 3:36:51 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

It is time to close the public schools.


2 posted on 10/22/2022 3:37:57 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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These liberal groups — including Red, Wine & Blue, a national effort; the Florida Freedom to Read Project, which two Florida mothers formed to combat book bans; and Defense of Democracy, started by two mothers in Fishkill, New York, who were unsettled by what they saw as Christian nationalists targeting school boards...

Thanks for ID'ing the enemy for us.

3 posted on 10/22/2022 3:39:01 PM PDT by sauropod (Unbelief has nothing to say. Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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You gotta Fight!
For your Right!
To Drag Queens!!!!!


4 posted on 10/22/2022 3:41:00 PM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

“Liberal parents concerned about the right’s increased focus...”

What rights, whose rights?


5 posted on 10/22/2022 3:42:01 PM PDT by traderrob6
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

“Liberal parents”
The rarest of all the groups. In fact, it’s “Liberals who want to exude undue pressure over the education of other people’s children, having none of their own.”


6 posted on 10/22/2022 3:43:09 PM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In the conflict between the stone and the stream, the stream will always prevail.)
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That's what won for Governor Youngkin in Virginia. He zeroed in and exposed woke school boards, slammed them against the lockers, and swept the race for the top three Virginia state officials.

And any woman who has given birth to kids certainly knows exactly what a woman is. And it isn't some freak man with his junk chopped off.

7 posted on 10/22/2022 3:48:29 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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I just have a very hard time with liberal women who want their kids to be bombarded with all the sexual crap. Whatever happened to mothers AND fathers protecting their children from predators?


8 posted on 10/22/2022 3:49:01 PM PDT by JoJo354 (I am in mourning for the United States of America.)
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“....Conservatives are way ahead”

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No. Conservatives are way behind. Liberals have been in charge of school boards, the teacher’s union, and all educational material for decades. Just in the past eighteen months are so have the conservatives started taking an interest and pushing back.


9 posted on 10/22/2022 3:49:37 PM PDT by CFW
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You 100% sure about that


10 posted on 10/22/2022 3:52:26 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!you)
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Mom Revolution. Even Lib moms see the danger.


11 posted on 10/22/2022 3:53:08 PM PDT by devane617 (Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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“combat book bans”

I am sure a lot of guys like me remember going into a dad’s dresser to pull out the Playboy Magazines and look at the pictures.

Does that mean we should have Playboy at school libraries?

Or is Playboy too cisgendered and patriarchal for the woke mob?


12 posted on 10/22/2022 4:00:43 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To be a liberal or to be a parent... must be a tough decision for them.


13 posted on 10/22/2022 4:02:37 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

and the MSM.


14 posted on 10/22/2022 4:03:08 PM PDT by alternatives? (The only reason to have an army is to defend your borders.)
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“...training parents to speak out in support of diversity programs, transgender accommodations and books about racial conflicts and LGBTQ issues.”


Because ‘diversity, transgender accommodations and books about racial conflicts and LGBTQ issues’ are what most parents really care about when it comes to the education of their kids.
/s


15 posted on 10/22/2022 4:07:50 PM PDT by hanamizu
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Or is Playboy too cisgendered and patriarchal for the woke mob?

Certainly not since Playboy had their first tranny playmate a few years ago.

16 posted on 10/22/2022 4:27:15 PM PDT by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

See, the thing about lefties is that they don’t like making personal sacrifices, which is part of being a parent. You can be a parent or a lefty, but not both.


17 posted on 10/22/2022 4:27:28 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as. )
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They seem to like making sacrifices, but like you said, not personal ones.


18 posted on 10/22/2022 4:29:59 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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What crap, they have the school boards, teachers' unions,

Because we didn’t care or do anything about it. Maybe it’s something the left doesn’t want to fight over at the ballot box. Everything was fine for them when they didn’t face opposition. Now they are going to get a democracy suppository come Nov. 8.

I’ll know we have won when two things happen. First, education tax dollars go directly to parents to educate their children any way they see fit. Second, school boards refuse to renew teacher union contracts and schools are kept open with brave teachers crossing picket lines. (That’s if there is such a thing as a brave teacher.)

19 posted on 10/22/2022 4:35:01 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA ( Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist )
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

It is time for a National divorce.


20 posted on 10/22/2022 4:44:05 PM PDT by GingisK
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