Southern Poverty Law Center tars parental-rights advocates as ‘hate groups’

Parents against the unfold of vital race concept and gender ideology in public colleges have landed on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “hate map.”

The far-left heart added practically 500 “hate groups” to its infamous “hate map” in 2022 by increasing the definition to incorporate “antigovernment” organizations, which evidently means parental-rights teams like Moms for Liberty, within the newly launched report on “hate and extremism.”

“Schools are a primary target for locally driven extremist mobilization, according to the report, with 12 anti-student inclusion groups leading a movement to gain power through school boards to attack public education, ban books, and remove any curriculum that contains discussions of race, discrimination, and LGBTQ+ identities,” stated the SPLC in its press launch.

The annual report issued Tuesday counted 1,225 “hate and antigovernment extremist groups” in 2022, a rise of 67% from 2021, when the group labeled 733 organizations as “hate groups.”

The soar could also be attributed largely to the addition of organizations like Parents Defending Education, Parents Involved in Education, Parents’ Rights in Education, and Moms for Liberty, which are actually recognized as SPLC as a part of the “antigovernment movement.”

“One group at the forefront of this mobilization is Moms for Liberty, a Florida-based group that the SPLC has designated as an anti-government extremist group in 2022,” stated the middle.

The SPLC lengthy has been identified for attacking mainstream conservative organizations just like the Alliance Defending Freedom and Family Research Council by lumping them on its “hate map” with neo-Nazis and the KKK.

But that is the primary 12 months the SPLC has focused the parental-rights motion.

Moms for Liberty co-founders Tiffany Justice and Tina Descovich, who began the group in the course of the pandemic to counter lecturers’ unions pushing faculty lockdowns, threw the “hate” label again on the SPLC.

“Name-calling parents who want to be a part of their child’s education as ‘hate groups’ or ‘bigoted’ just further exposes what this battle is all about: Who fundamentally gets to decide what is taught to our kids in school – parents or government employees?” they stated.

“We believe that parental rights do not stop at the classroom door and no amount of hate from groups like this is going to stop that,” they added.

Parents Rights’ in Education tweeted: “We @rightsparents take it as a badge of honor to make the ‘hate’ list of such a vile/evil/hate-filled organization as SPLC.”

“We will not stop, we will not be silenced. Stop messing with our kids,” stated the group on Twitter.

Not impressed with the choice to tar parental-rights teams with the “hate” label was Sen. J.D. Vance, Ohio Republican.

“The SPLC is a garbage organization now dedicated to harassing groups that advocate for parents,” Mr. Vance tweeted. “In the future, their pronouncements must be met with scorn.”

The SPLC is a rubbish group now devoted to harassing teams that advocate for folks. In the long run, their pronouncements have to be met with scorn. https://t.co/L4DUAfD0UZ

— J.D. Vance (@JDVance1) June 6, 2023

In the previous few years, the SPLC has seen its credibility drop over its left-wing bias; its aggressive fundraising; its palatial workplace in Montgomery, Alabama, often known as the “Poverty Palace”; and the 2019 firing of co-founder Morris Dees amid allegations of sexual harassment and sex- and race-based discrimination.

In April, a federal choose refused to dismiss a defamation case in opposition to the middle filed by teams against unlawful immigration that had been tagged as “hate groups.”

Even so, the Biden administration has used the middle as an authoritative useful resource.

The White House partnered with the group in its anti-Semitism technique unveiled final month, and the FBI’s Richmond workplace cited the SPLC in its much-decried leaked report on “radical-traditionalist Catholics.”

Tyler O’Neil, writer of the “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center,” famous that the middle’s report makes no point out of the problems now roiling public colleges, reminiscent of bringing in books with sexually graphic content material within the title of LGBTQ inclusion.

“It does not mention how many on the Left champion the idea that children should be able to identify with a gender opposite their biological sex, hide that identity from their parents, and even obtain life-altering drugs without parental consent,” he stated within the Daily Signal. “Instead, it acts as though the parental rights movement emerged in a vacuum, or worse, is motivated by hatred.”

A 2022 Grinnell College ballot discovered two-thirds of Americans imagine public colleges are on the “wrong track,” spurring the rise of the dad and mom’ rights motion.

“Empowering parents continues to be our mission today and that has fueled our organization’s growth – like wildfire to now 45 states in the country,” stated the Moms for Liberty co-founders.