Southern Poverty Law Center labeled the Far-right ‘Moms for Liberty’ as a hate group for first time

Southern Poverty Law Center labeled the Far-right ‘Moms for Liberty’ as a hate group for first time

Moms for Liberty, the far-right parental group known for protesting at school board meetings, has been identified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a “hate group” for the first time ever.

Moms for Liberty is the most prominent in a constellation of similar groups that have terrorized local school officials amid a larger push to promote social conservative values in public education. The group made headlines this past year for going berserk over a school yearbook’s LGBTQ+ page and allegedly hacking a dead woman’s Facebook account to harass foes, among other headline-grabbing tactics.

But it’s hardly a unique phenomenon. These “parents’ rights” groups have been on the rise, in part due to backlash over COVID-19 safety measures, the SPLC reports. More recently, they’ve grown “into an anti-student inclusion movement that targets any inclusive curriculum that contains discussions of race, discrimination and LGBTQ identities,” the SPLC wrote in a statement attached to the report.

“Moms for Liberty activities make it clear that the group’s primary goals are to fuel right-wing hysteria and to make the world a less comfortable or safe place for certain students–primarily those who are Black, LGBTQ or who come from LGBTQ families,” the statement said.

Moms for Liberty, which recently said it knows liberal groups are spying on its activities because it’s doing the same thing to them, is among 12 parental groups added to the SPLC’s list of hate groups, according to USA Today.

“The Southern Poverty Law Center is for the first time labeling Florida-headquartered Moms for Liberty and 11 other right-wing ‘parents’ rights’ groups as extremist groups in its annual report, released today,” USA Today wrote.