{"id":1969871,"date":"2023-07-11T15:59:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T19:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/death-threats-to-moms-for-liberty-ramp-up-after-splc-lumped-them-with-kkk-taliban-in-minivan\/"},"modified":"2023-07-11T16:01:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T20:01:42","slug":"death-threats-to-moms-for-liberty-ramp-up-after-splc-lumped-them-with-kkk-taliban-in-minivan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/death-threats-to-moms-for-liberty-ramp-up-after-splc-lumped-them-with-kkk-taliban-in-minivan\/","title":{"rendered":"Moms for Liberty face increased death threats due to SPLC&#8217;s KKK association: labeled as &#8216;Taliban in Minivan&#8217;."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdeath-threats-to-moms-for-liberty-ramp-up-after-splc-lumped-them-with-kkk-taliban-in-minivan%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1969871&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Death Threats and Attacks on Moms for Liberty Intensify After Being Labeled a &#8220;Hate Group&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>Death threats and political attacks against the parental rights group Moms for Liberty have ramped up after the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) put them on its \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/hate-map\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hate map<\/a>\u201d alongside the likes of the Ku Klux Klan.<\/p>\n<p>Moms for Liberty said it has received more death threats and hateful messages over the last few weeks since June 6, when the SPLC released its \u201cThe Year in Hate and Extremism\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/year-hate-extremism-2022\/introduction#hateextremism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> for 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The SPLC, an uber-leftist civil rights watchdog, frequently brands conservative and Christian organizations \u201chate groups,\u201d and this year, that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/fighting-hate\/extremist-files\/group\/moms-liberty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">included<\/a> Moms for Liberty as well as other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americas-largest-teachers-union-has-donated-1-million-to-reelect-michigan-gov-whitmer\/\" title=\"America's Largest Teachers Union Has Donated  Million to Reelect Michigan Gov. Whitmer\">parental rights groups<\/a> like Parents Defending Education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSchools, especially, have been on the receiving end of ramped-up and coordinated hard-right attacks, frequently through the guise of \u2018parents\u2019 rights\u2019 groups,\u201d the SPLC said in its report.<\/p>\n<p>Moms for Liberty is \u201cat the forefront of this mobilization,\u201d the SPLC said.<\/p>\n<p>Moms for Liberty said it has received the threats through voicemails, emails, and responses on its \u201cContact Us\u201d page.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will personally eradicate you from Massachusetts,\u201d one person <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2023\/07\/10\/exclusive-moms-for-liberty-undaunted-by-death-threats-being-treated-as-subhuman-after-splc-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>, calling them \u201cnasty sows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A person who put their name as \u201cExecute All-Nazis\u201d wrote, \u201cPiece of s*** fascists like you deserve to be dragged against a wall and force-fed hot lead. Eat s*** and die.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou women have no soul, no morals, for quoting Adolf Hitler in your newsletter,\u201d another person wrote. \u201cThe state should remove your kids and\/or grand kids from your homes. Evil, evil, evil people you are!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last month, a Moms for Liberty chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/moms-for-liberty-adolf-hitler-newsletter-quote-bcce698e901b9e782970030ccd710512#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">included<\/a> in their newsletter the quote, \u201cHe alone, who OWNS the youth, GAINS the future,\u201d and cited Hitler. It later updated the newsletter with more context, saying the \u201cquote from a horrific leader should put parents on alert.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another person appeared to reference the SPLC\u2019s report, calling Moms for Liberty \u201cextremest [sic]\u201d and \u201cbiggoted [sic]\u201d in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/palestinian-president-unleashes-profane-rant-against-rest-of-the-world\/\" title=\"Palestinian President Unleashes Profane Rant Against Rest of the World\">profanity-laced rant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A person who put their name as \u201cSatan Anti-Christ\u201d wrote that Moms for Liberty \u201cwill answer for the crimes YOU committed against our LGBTQ children (legally of course).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even an elected official joined in the name-calling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAssholes with casseroles, taliban in minivan,\u201d tweeted Democrat New Hampshire state Representative Catherine Sofikitis.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Assholes with casseroles, taliban in minivan<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Catherine Sofikitis (@nashuaward7) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nashuaward7\/status\/1678141739847090177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 9, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Tina Descovich, a Moms for Liberty co-founder, referenced the 2012 shooting at the conservative Family Research Council\u2019s headquarters, which the shooter targeted after he found them online through the Southern Poverty Law Center.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think you have to look any further than at the Family Research Council and how they were threatened by a shooter because of the designation as a \u2018hate group,\u2019\u201d Descovich <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2023\/07\/10\/exclusive-moms-for-liberty-undaunted-by-death-threats-being-treated-as-subhuman-after-splc-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt gave people permission to treat us as subhuman,\u201d Tiffany Justice, another Moms for Liberty co-founder, told The Daily Signal, saying critics are trying to \u201cwhip people up into such a frenzy that they end up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-fall-of-a-country-the-untold-eyewitness-story-of-afghanistans-collapse\/\" title=\"The Fall of A Country: The Untold, Eyewitness Story Of Afghanistan\u2019s Collapse\">sending death threats<\/a> to me and to the members and our children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDesignating us as a hate group gives people permission to dehumanize us, and the SPLC knows it,\u201d Justice said.<\/p>\n<h3>Moms for Liberty: Fighting for Parental Rights<\/h3>\n<p>Moms for Liberty was started in 2021 by two former school board members responding to COVID restrictions in schools. Since then, the group has expanded its fight to include issues like sexual content in curricula and school libraries, gender pronoun <a href=\"https:\/\/www.momsforliberty.org\/media\/files\/pages-page\/6d92a117\/10questionsparentsshouldask.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">policies<\/a> in schools, declining <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Moms4Liberty\/status\/1652730841682923520\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">grades<\/a> and test scores, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.momsforliberty.org\/news\/-parents-revolted-against-critical-race-theory-heres-how-they-won\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">racial<\/a> curriculum content with leftist overtones.<\/p>\n<p>Members of Moms for Liberty often show up to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maryland-school-district-announces-policy-to-push-anti-racist-thinking-in-preschool-redefine-discrimination-and-racism\/\" title=\"Maryland School District Announces Policy to Push \u2018Anti-Racist Thinking\u2019 In Preschool, Redefine \u2018Discrimination\u2019 and \u2018Racism\u2019\">school board meetings<\/a> around the country, sometimes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/death-threats-to-moms-for-liberty-ramp-up-after-splc-lumped-them-with-kkk-taliban-in-minivan\/\" title=\"Moms for Liberty face increased death threats due to SPLC's KKK association: labeled as 'Taliban in Minivan'.\">wearing matching t-shirts reading<\/a>, \u201cWe do NOT CO-PARENT with the GOVERNMENT.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moms for Liberty faces escalating death threats and political assaults as they were added to the Southern Poverty Law Center&#8217;s &#8220;hate map,&#8221; alongside the Ku Klux Klan. 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