{"id":2031660,"date":"2023-09-14T11:23:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T15:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tim-scott-blasts-teachers-union-leader-for-comparing-parental-rights-to-segregation\/"},"modified":"2023-09-14T11:26:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T15:26:06","slug":"tim-scott-blasts-teachers-union-leader-for-comparing-parental-rights-to-segregation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tim-scott-blasts-teachers-union-leader-for-comparing-parental-rights-to-segregation\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Scott criticizes teachers union leader&#8217;s comparison of parental rights to segregation."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Ftim-scott-blasts-teachers-union-leader-for-comparing-parental-rights-to-segregation%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=2031660&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>Sen. Tim \u200bScott Slams AFT\u200b President Randi Weingarten for\u200d Comparing Parental Rights\u200c Advocates to Segregationists<\/h2>\n<p>Sen.\u200c Tim Scott (R-SC) strongly criticized \u200cAmerican Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten\u2062 on Wednesday for her recent comparison of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/american-academy-of-pediatrics-now-suggesting-parental-rights-advocates-want-to-roll-back-child-abuse-protections\/\" title=\"American Academy of Pediatrics Now Suggesting Parental Rights Advocates Want to Roll Back Child Abuse Protections\">parental rights advocates<\/a> to segregationists \u2062from the Jim Crow era.\u2064 Scott argues that white\u2062 liberals often resort to \u2062crying \u2063racism \u200cin \u2063order \u200bto\u2062 win an argument.<\/p>\n<p>According to Scott, Weingarten&#8217;s remarks have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/she-claimed-she-poisoned-her-rapist-with-hemlock-a-police-investigation-determined-she-lied\/\" title=\"She Claimed She Poisoned Her Rapist With Hemlock. A Police Investigation Determined She Lied.\">caused significant harm<\/a> to students in impoverished communities. She\u200b equated \u200cschool choice and\u200c parental rights advocates with segregationists who opposed \u200dthe landmark Supreme Court ruling on Brown v. Board of\u200d Education, \u200cwhich put an end to racial segregation in \u2064public schools.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;There might\u200b not\u200c be anyone that&#8217;s done more damage\u2064 recently than Randi Weingarten to the kids living in distressed \u2062communities &#8230; especially \u200clike the ones where I \u200dgrew up,&#8221; Scott said. &#8220;It&#8217;s so frustrating to\u2064 hear\u2063 these \u200dliberal lies, hearkening back to a day that no\u200b longer exists. Yet they&#8217;re the ones with their \u200bteachers unions standing in \u200dthe doorway of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tim-scott-blasts-teachers-union-leader-for-comparing-parental-rights-to-segregation\/\" title=\"Tim Scott criticizes teachers union leader's comparison of parental rights to segregation.\">schoolhouse trapping poor kids<\/a> in\u200d as if the house is on fire, but they won&#8217;t\u200b let a single soul out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Weingarten claimed that \u2064the same language used to describe modern\u200c parents seeking a more active role in \u2062their children&#8217;s education was also used by racist white individuals in\u200c the South\u200b during the \u200b1950s.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Those same words that you heard in terms of \u200bwanting\u200d segregation post-Brown v. Board of Education, those same words you hear today,&#8221; Weingarten stated during a\u2062 discussion at the Burnes Center for Social Change. &#8220;I\u200b was kind of gobsmacked when I was talking with [the] Southern Poverty Law Center,\u200c and they showed me\u200b the \u2064same words \u2013 &#8216;choice,&#8217; &#8216;parental rights,&#8217; and attempts to divide parents versus teachers. At that point, it was white parents versus other parents. But \u200bit\u2019s the same kind of words.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Scott, who is currently running for the\u200b Republican\u200b nomination for president, vehemently\u200b rejected the comparison and criticized Weingarten\u2064 for invoking &#8220;racism&#8221; in a\u200d discussion unrelated to race.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m so sick and tired \u200dof liberals \u2014 too many of them happen to be white \u2014 crying racism every single time they&#8217;re losing an argument,&#8221; Scott expressed. \u200c&#8221;I can&#8217;t think of anything \u200bmore actually racist than \u200dtrapping poor black kids \u200bin the\u2064 failing schools in these big \u2062blue\u200c cities dominated by a supermajority of \u2062radical progressives who are running the cities \u200band destroying the schools.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If elected to the Oval Office next year, Scott pledged to &#8220;break the backs&#8221; of the teachers unions and provide parents with \u2063&#8221;choice \u200din education&#8221; because they deserve the options necessary\u2064 for their children&#8217;s success.<\/p>\n<p>Weingarten had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lincoln-project-founder-used-donor-cash-to-shore-up-shoddy-finances\/\" title=\"Lincoln Project Founder Used Donor Cash to Shore Up Shoddy Finances\">previously faced criticism<\/a> for making a \u200bsimilar comparison\u200b in \u20632017, when she claimed that &#8220;the\u200b real pioneers of \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/charter-school-enrollment-skyrockets-amid-restrictive-coronavirus-rules\/\" title=\"Charter School Enrollment Skyrockets Amid Restrictive Coronavirus Rules\">private school choice<\/a> were the white politicians who resisted\u200b school \u2062integration&#8221; during a union\u2064 convention. She also referred to school choice programs as being the &#8220;only slightly more polite cousins of segregation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here<\/a> to read more from The \u200dWashington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) criticized Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers, for likening parental rights advocates to Jim Crow segregationists. Scott accused white liberals of using accusations of racism to gain an advantage. 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