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A Nation of MAGAt Hate:
Moms for Liberty listed as ‘anti-government’ group by extremism watchdog
The ‘parents’ rights’ group has backed book bans and the removal of discussions of race and LGBTQ+ issues in schools
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has listed the Republican-connected “parents’ rights” group Moms for Liberty as an “anti-government extremist” organization in its latest Year in Hate & Extremism report.
In a statement accompanying the report’s release, a spokesperson for the extremism watchdog group wrote that Moms for Liberty was the most prominent of 12 extremist “anti-student inclusion groups” mobilizing to “attack public education, ban books, and remove any curriculum that contains discussions of race, discrimination, and LGBTQ+ identities”.
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2024 Election:
RFK Jr comes out against gun control and blames school shootings on ‘drugs’
Experts say there’s no link between pharmaceutical drugs and mass shootings
Democratic presidential candidate and anti-vaccine advocate Robert F Kennedy Jr said during a Twitter Spaces event on Monday that he would not take away people’s guns as a solution to reducing mass shootings and instead pointed the finger at pharmaceutical drugs.