Speaker 1: What's critical my race theories? UM, well, all right, that's
Speaker 1: not a great introduction, but it's not a great time
Speaker 1: in America. I'm Robert Evans. This is it could happen
Speaker 1: here with me tonight as often but not always is
Speaker 1: is Garrison Davis UH and our good friend Christopher Wong. Uh.
Speaker 1: We're here to talk about, um a bunch of stuff. Largely,
Speaker 1: we're talking about the increasing and escalating attacks on school
Speaker 1: boards and attempts to take over and dominate school boards
Speaker 1: by far right activists. And a lot of this is
Speaker 1: centered around critical race theory, a lot of it centered
Speaker 1: around vaccine mandates. It all kind of blends together like
Speaker 1: a good gumbo um or like fascist syncretism UM. One
Speaker 1: of the things I would say that's that's kind of
Speaker 1: most relevant right now as we're recording this. I don't
Speaker 1: think the race has been officially called, but it's become
Speaker 1: an increasingly obvious that Uh, Terry mccaulliffe has lost his
Speaker 1: re election bid and the new governor of Virginia will
Speaker 1: be a Republican who, among other things, as like promised
Speaker 1: and based a huge amount of his campaign on banning
Speaker 1: critical race theory and specifically like banning books and ship
Speaker 1: from being taught in Virginia schools UM. And this is
Speaker 1: all the result of a pretty far reaching UM and
Speaker 1: and complex and honestly pretty pretty scary campaign. And we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about that tonight, Garrison. Do you wanna do
Speaker 1: you wanna take it from here? Yeah? Yeah, I'll do
Speaker 1: a little bit then we can move over to telegram.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you like the getty lee of this. So
Speaker 1: so this is your drum solo time. Yeah, we we
Speaker 1: decided we needed to do an episode on this, Sinnon
Speaker 1: And later when a few weeks ago, a large number
Speaker 1: of of of of anti vacts and anti mask protesters
Speaker 1: UM took over a school board meeting in uh Portland.
Speaker 1: And the reason why that is special in and of
Speaker 1: itself because this has been happening across the country for
Speaker 1: a long time. But that but the fact that they
Speaker 1: were able to overwhelm and shut down an entire school
Speaker 1: board meeting with hundreds of people like invading this building,
Speaker 1: UM and shutting this down with just the shurement of
Speaker 1: like power that the people had there was it was
Speaker 1: It's notable because it's like it's it's a liberal ish city, right,
Speaker 1: It's that's generally how people view it as. And you know,
Speaker 1: we're used to this happening, you know, more like southern
Speaker 1: states and states that are more like overwhelmingly conservative. But
Speaker 1: when like a Portland school board meeting get shut down,
Speaker 1: people were like, oh wow, this is like extra important
Speaker 1: because this is showing that it's not this isn't isolated
Speaker 1: to like quote unquote red states, right, this can this
Speaker 1: can spread out everywhere now, you know. With Portland it
Speaker 1: was it was a mix of like hippie types who
Speaker 1: are like anti vax, but there was a good deal
Speaker 1: of like actual proud boys there as well. Yes, and
Speaker 1: it was partly organized through an organization run by the
Speaker 1: Bundies UM, and there were some direct ties and they
Speaker 1: helped to advertise it. So it's there's a lot of UM.
Speaker 1: I mean, one of the things that was so unsettling
Speaker 1: is that a lot of these people were not Portland's residents,
Speaker 1: but they were showing up and we're able to effectively
Speaker 1: like take over and dominate a Portland's school board meeting.
Speaker 1: UM in part because law enforcement is never ever willing
Speaker 1: to do anything against there's there's a there's a lot
Speaker 1: of a lot of points here so like, yeah, one
Speaker 1: of it being is like these like these big mobs
Speaker 1: are definitely able to benefit from being you know, white,
Speaker 1: mostly middle class like parents and stuff, or maybe not
Speaker 1: maybe not not even parents. They're gonna be a white
Speaker 1: middle class um, which means they can like storm buildings
Speaker 1: and shut stuff down without any real consequence because police
Speaker 1: aren't police and security aren't really going to get involved
Speaker 1: that much, and the like the libs are not gonna
Speaker 1: like really be pushing back on this in any kind
Speaker 1: of make fun of these people if they misspell something
Speaker 1: on a sign. Yeah. So, like basically the idea for
Speaker 1: this episode as we want to talk about why and
Speaker 1: how school boards have become kind of the new front
Speaker 1: lines for pushing far right stuff into the culturals like guist,
Speaker 1: because they've really become the new, the new, the new
Speaker 1: like space that people on the right are able to
Speaker 1: push things that are that are more that are more extreme,
Speaker 1: and push things that are gonna you know, hurt you know,
Speaker 1: kids mostly m hmm. So looking for this, we put
Speaker 1: together a decent amount of stuff from organizing chats for
Speaker 1: how basically the right is talking about these things and
Speaker 1: how they're trying to organize it. UM. And one really
Speaker 1: interesting kind of thing of not which will come up
Speaker 1: later in the telegram stuff, is that in I think
Speaker 1: it was when was it it was late September, UM,
Speaker 1: the National school Boards Associations like that the National school
Speaker 1: Board Union UM put in a request for federal assistance
Speaker 1: to stop um ongoing threats and acts of violence against
Speaker 1: UH school boards like meeting members and people president at
Speaker 1: school boards because this has been ramping up. You know
Speaker 1: this that this was happening the last last school season
Speaker 1: as well, but really the past few months, the the
Speaker 1: prevalence and the number of these types of like mobs
Speaker 1: based overtaking these school boards has become so much more
Speaker 1: common UM that the school Board Union put in like
Speaker 1: sent like a letter directly to the president saying, hey,
Speaker 1: we kind of need help here. UM. So it's it's
Speaker 1: not just it's this is this is a problem that's
Speaker 1: recognized widely even among people like on school boards, because yeah,
Speaker 1: they're getting like harassed, they're getting death threats. UM. This
Speaker 1: is becoming like unsafe to hold school board meetings. UM.
Speaker 1: And whether or not you like our modern school system
Speaker 1: or not, the resulting effect of this is that it's
Speaker 1: gonna be hurting like kids, like like, it's a good
Speaker 1: whether it be through like COVID, whether it be through
Speaker 1: teaching them racist like curriculums, or whether it be to
Speaker 1: you know, making trans kids make their lives a whole
Speaker 1: lot harder. Right, all of this kind of stuff is
Speaker 1: gonna be worse by this happening. So it is something
Speaker 1: definitely worth caring about. Yeah, it's worth caring about. All
Speaker 1: It's clearly an attempt in order to to to arrest
Speaker 1: the kind of progressive tilt that that society has gone through.
Speaker 1: All of this is a reaction both too. I mean,
Speaker 1: the religious right was initially, more than anything, a reaction
Speaker 1: to desegregation and the women's liberation movement UM. And what
Speaker 1: we're seeing now is a reaction to primarily the gains
Speaker 1: that LGBT people have made in the last like twenty years,
Speaker 1: including the legalization of gay marriage UM. And so the
Speaker 1: ultimate goal of all of this is to stop progress
Speaker 1: towards racial justice, to roll back gay rights, UM, to
Speaker 1: enshrine white supremacy using violence. And that's why, I that's
Speaker 1: why all of these different school board meanings, like the
Speaker 1: threat of violence from these people is a constant factor. UM.
Speaker 1: There's regular discussion of it. There's like, I mean, that's
Speaker 1: why the Proud Boys are showing up. Is to be
Speaker 1: a of like is to be a death squad, um,
Speaker 1: you know, a little precursor death squad. They're not quite
Speaker 1: willing to start start pulling triggers yet, but they want
Speaker 1: people to know that it's possible. They want to scare
Speaker 1: people away from getting involved in local politics unless they
Speaker 1: adhere to a very specific far right political ideas. It's
Speaker 1: working because a lot of these school boards are getting
Speaker 1: these school meanings are just getting shut down, like they
Speaker 1: just can't have them in person or sometimes not at
Speaker 1: all because they'll just they'll like zoom bam. Like it's
Speaker 1: not like they're just shutting down so they cannot take
Speaker 1: place or at school by members are afraid to go
Speaker 1: out in public because these people are are going to
Speaker 1: hurt them. Um. And this is like a lot of
Speaker 1: people involved in this are maybe not themselves like Proud
Speaker 1: Boys like they they're they're they're they're not super like
Speaker 1: their individual lee are more kind of regular Republicans in
Speaker 1: these states. But the reason why it gets so extreme
Speaker 1: and accelerate so quickly is mostly because of how these
Speaker 1: organizing efforts take place, and also because of stuff like
Speaker 1: Fox News and News Marx and on it and O
Speaker 1: A N like pushing people further right in the past
Speaker 1: few years, but like specifically the method of organizing on
Speaker 1: apps like Telegram and Facebook groups. This this is, this
Speaker 1: is the thing common on the Internet, but like it
Speaker 1: rewards accelerationism, it rewards the most extreme, takes those the
Speaker 1: ones to get shared the most. So even if you
Speaker 1: know this is just some mom and her forties who's
Speaker 1: not a proud boy by any means, she's she still
Speaker 1: poses a threat in this in this way because she's
Speaker 1: who boosting this same rhetoric and as part of these
Speaker 1: same organizing channels that are full of like actual fascists. Uh,
Speaker 1: there's a decent amount of very popular posts from very
Speaker 1: popular channels I pulled that talks about the Jews in
Speaker 1: the school boards and we we'll get to that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff shortly. Um So there, Robert, do you wanna
Speaker 1: start on the telegram with the whole the whole school
Speaker 1: board Telegram channel that is popped up by no means
Speaker 1: the most popular Telegram channel for organizing, but it is
Speaker 1: specifically dedicated to school boards because of how Telegram works.
Speaker 1: This channel gets shared around a lot in other much
Speaker 1: bigger channels. Yeah, and and just so you know, So
Speaker 1: the way Telegram works, if you're a decent person, um
Speaker 1: and you don't live in a country where Telegram is
Speaker 1: a legitimately good choice for you, there's some areas where
Speaker 1: it's perfectly normal social media network, but for the most
Speaker 1: part in the United States it's used by fascists and
Speaker 1: weirdos um. So if you're fortunate enough to not use Telegram,
Speaker 1: the way it works is you have open groups and
Speaker 1: closed groups. Open groups are anyone can view them, Uh,
Speaker 1: you don't expose yourself by looking at them, and people
Speaker 1: largely just kind of post images, memes, videos and then
Speaker 1: can comment on them. And a lot of what's posted
Speaker 1: in any given Telegram channel is shared from another Telegram channel.
Speaker 1: So for people like Garrison and I who research extremism,
Speaker 1: one of the uses of telegram is that by looking
Speaker 1: at what's being shared in one group from other groups,
Speaker 1: you can actually start to build networks and see, oh,
Speaker 1: there's affinity between these two groups. Because this group may
Speaker 1: claim that they're just concerned conservatives, but they're sharing all
Speaker 1: of this, all of this content from this far right
Speaker 1: you know Pepe group that's also sharing a lot of
Speaker 1: neo Nazi content, and you can see there's a lot
Speaker 1: of affinity between the other thing that happens is that
Speaker 1: these channels that are getting big and being you and
Speaker 1: you are being used for this kind of like right
Speaker 1: wing organizing who present themselves as more just like regular
Speaker 1: conservative channels. If you I've been in this channel for
Speaker 1: like years at this point, and this channel used to
Speaker 1: be a like proud Boy channel. They just change their name.
Speaker 1: Like It's like that happens all the time, where a
Speaker 1: lot of the big organizing channels used to be like
Speaker 1: openly violent organizing, like for different mobs to go beat
Speaker 1: up people, and now they've rebranded to make them appeal
Speaker 1: more to like regular Trump voters. That is the other
Speaker 1: thing that happens all the time. And one of the
Speaker 1: main channels that we're talking about today is one of
Speaker 1: these one of these channels that used to be a
Speaker 1: proud Boy thing and is now just kind of right
Speaker 1: wing organizing a general Yeah, and it's um, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna get into it. So actually you know
Speaker 1: what I'm going to get into before I start talking
Speaker 1: about fascists on telegram trying to destroy the concept of democracy.
Speaker 1: You know what else is trying to destroy the concept
Speaker 1: of democracy? That's right, Chris, products and services, that's right.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, we are just having a great time here.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about Stand for Students, which is a
Speaker 1: telegram channel that Garrison pointed out to me, and I
Speaker 1: spent more time than I really wanted to. Yeah, that's never, never,
Speaker 1: never a good idea. So the stuff in here, this
Speaker 1: is no umber one on the surface, a much more
Speaker 1: moderate group. These people are not ranting about like Jews
Speaker 1: destroying civilization or the need to like execute uh black
Speaker 1: people or something like that. Um, the stuff in here
Speaker 1: runs the gamut from like one of the first things
Speaker 1: I found was a clip from Jesse Ventura, wrestler, predator
Speaker 1: star and former governor once had a conspiracy TV show.
Speaker 1: There's a popular clip in anti vaccine circles from it
Speaker 1: where he's talking with Alex Jones about the Builderberg group
Speaker 1: and stuff. So I found that in there, which is
Speaker 1: like pretty garden variety, like early two thousands conspiracy nonsense.
Speaker 1: Definitely like, oh yeah, these are like older people, like
Speaker 1: I don't think mostly boomers, but definitely like gen X
Speaker 1: and stuff, like folks who were in like their forties
Speaker 1: and fifties. Um, this is the kind of ship that
Speaker 1: they would have been like exposed to in their late
Speaker 1: twenties and whatnot. Um. One of the posters I found
Speaker 1: commenting on that video said quote aired onto TV into
Speaker 1: this and nine about a plan for depopulation through a
Speaker 1: virus and injections. Too much of a coincidence, and another
Speaker 1: responded to this. I was never a huge Alex Jones fan,
Speaker 1: but he was right all along. My kids were born
Speaker 1: in the early eighties and I refused their vaxes way
Speaker 1: back then. Unfortunately, one of them is now a late
Speaker 1: thirties CNN jabbed zombie and has infected my grandkids with
Speaker 1: this inspiric experimental treatment. I'm done, um, which is silly,
Speaker 1: but it also keys you and like these are it's
Speaker 1: it's what you see a lot with Q and on right.
Speaker 1: It's these folks who are getting brought in onto telegram. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's great. It's terrible that this person, this lady who
Speaker 1: has to be what in her fifties sixties my parents age,
Speaker 1: the boomer um is on telegram which two years ago
Speaker 1: even was the only Americans you were fine, We're fine,
Speaker 1: were like extremely online Nazi weirdos. Um. Yeah, I remember
Speaker 1: doing like old trainings like yeah, it was over over
Speaker 1: two years ago, and telegram was nowhere near the prevalent
Speaker 1: for like regular organizing now. And this is a result
Speaker 1: of of the d platforming of folks in the wake
Speaker 1: of the capital attack. But anyway, we don't need to
Speaker 1: get too much into that right now, So I want
Speaker 1: to talk a little bit more about some of the
Speaker 1: things folks are sharing in this in this channel, which
Speaker 1: is again kind of like I'm gonna guess everyone here
Speaker 1: is kind of late thirties to maybe sixties, fifties, sixties.
Speaker 1: There's one local story that it was actually very popular
Speaker 1: among a lot of like lefty folks on Twitter of
Speaker 1: this like group of dads who showed up to stop
Speaker 1: there's like an epidemic of fighting in their school or something,
Speaker 1: and they showed up to do like a community policing
Speaker 1: or a community self defense sort of thing. It was
Speaker 1: celebrated by a lot of folks because it was like, oh, hey,
Speaker 1: this is you know, a way that communities can protect
Speaker 1: themselves without cops. YadA, YadA, YadA. Which is a nice
Speaker 1: thing to see. It was also celebrated um by these people, um,
Speaker 1: by by people in this channel, and specifically the clip
Speaker 1: of the news story covering this I found was from
Speaker 1: the Pepe Lives Matter channel, which is, um, you know,
Speaker 1: an alt right channel like it. Again, as we were
Speaker 1: talking about earlier, the Pepe Lives isn't all like the
Speaker 1: way full Nazi pilled stuff, um, but it shares a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff from the channels that are straight up Nazis,
Speaker 1: And so you can you can see already this like
Speaker 1: lady in her sixties who's probably with some pretty normal
Speaker 1: boomer three years ago, is now two steps away from
Speaker 1: Adam often type motherfucker's that's just the way telegram works, um,
Speaker 1: And they're all kind of bonding. Over again, this is
Speaker 1: not a bad story what these local dads did, but
Speaker 1: it very much ties into this idea of like we
Speaker 1: gotta get all these parents together and take action in
Speaker 1: the real world, like and that's gonna that's gonna go
Speaker 1: towards taking action against the people you don't want showing
Speaker 1: up in your school, meaning like black children and like children. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: that's yeah, yeah, yeah. Community self defense is great, but
Speaker 1: also It really depends on what community is defending itself
Speaker 1: from what. UM. So that's all probably have to talk
Speaker 1: about that more at some point in the future. But yeah,
Speaker 1: another thing I found on that channel was video this.
Speaker 1: This I dug into a bit. So there was this
Speaker 1: video that was claimed to be an ad. It was,
Speaker 1: in fact an ad that Comcast had refused to air.
Speaker 1: UM and the video this, this unaired ad claimed that
Speaker 1: it was about. It was telling the story of a
Speaker 1: thirteen year old girl, Maddie de Garay Um, who was vaccinated.
Speaker 1: She was part of a FASER trial and had she
Speaker 1: claims like a disastrously bad reaction. UM. An ad about
Speaker 1: her situation was rejected by Comcast. UM and this girl
Speaker 1: like has done the whole right wing in her I'm
Speaker 1: I'm guessing her parents are the driver's done the whole
Speaker 1: right wing media kind of circuit at this point. UM.
Speaker 1: The fact that Comcast banned the ad is what the
Speaker 1: people in this telegram channel were yelling about. UM. And
Speaker 1: I want to actually quote from the an article about
Speaker 1: why Comcast rejected it, because it makes clear what's actually
Speaker 1: happening here. Comcast is said to have told the ads
Speaker 1: buyer it was rejected because it needed substantial creation and
Speaker 1: all graphic images needed to be removed. Documents reportedly submitted
Speaker 1: for substantiation included the girl's complete medical records, which are
Speaker 1: said to have outlined symptoms such as erratic blood pressure
Speaker 1: and pulse, muscle spasms, muscle tremors, headaches, brain fog, mixing
Speaker 1: up words, and the inability to walk and cough. Um.
Speaker 1: So you've got this case where number one there's graphic images, um,
Speaker 1: and number two there's documentations that this girl has symptoms,
Speaker 1: but there's not documentation that they're tied in any way
Speaker 1: to the vaccine, Like it's just one of these the
Speaker 1: comcast is being careful to not spread unsubstantiated shit about
Speaker 1: vaccine reactions and stuff. Um. But within the telegram channel,
Speaker 1: the focus is entirely on like how this is evidence
Speaker 1: of this conspiracy there suppressing information and suppressing information. Um.
Speaker 1: One response was, why in Heaven's name don't these parents
Speaker 1: do their research before having their kids vaccinated? My heart
Speaker 1: goes out to the precious child and family. What a
Speaker 1: lesson to learn for so many parents. Never too late
Speaker 1: to educate your selves. People. Also, I want to point
Speaker 1: it just that the spelling and the are incredible. There's
Speaker 1: an upsetting amount of emojis that Yeah, honestly, I couldn't
Speaker 1: never never two with one oh late to educate your
Speaker 1: space selves. Uh, it's just again and now I'm doing
Speaker 1: they're doing the thing. I'm doing the thing I tried
Speaker 1: not to. I did try to give it a straight
Speaker 1: read through. You can be challenging with It's like it's
Speaker 1: very funny content. It's it's very funny. Yeah, but but
Speaker 1: but I think you know this, this is this goes
Speaker 1: back to the whole point about how this pradicalization works, right,
Speaker 1: which is, you know you have, especially with anti vax
Speaker 1: stuff that has this sort of larger base from just
Speaker 1: like regular peer like hardwright Nazi stuff. You get to
Speaker 1: see people who you know, otherwise probably would be a
Speaker 1: vaguely normal person, very very quickly get all this stuff
Speaker 1: and very quickly just go off the deep end. They're not. Yeah,
Speaker 1: these it is it's hard to say like these are
Speaker 1: all extremists because like they are themselves aren't extremists. There's
Speaker 1: surrounded by so much content that is made by extremists
Speaker 1: that it's making them do these things, which is how,
Speaker 1: which is how extremism works right, but it's it's challenging
Speaker 1: because like when you try to explain this to someone,
Speaker 1: you're like, no, this is obviously just like a regular
Speaker 1: grandma or something, right, And it's hard to explain to
Speaker 1: them how fast this thing can move to the point
Speaker 1: where they're showing up at a school board with their
Speaker 1: grand killed children yelling at like teachers and stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's not that this lady is a Nazi. It's
Speaker 1: that this lady can be, through the process you just outlined,
Speaker 1: convinced to stand up next to a Nazi and like, uh,
Speaker 1: defend his his right to do violence to people. She
Speaker 1: has been convinced are president a threat to the lives
Speaker 1: of her, her grandchildren, which is people may say, like
Speaker 1: the whole like, oh, it's not worth parsing out that
Speaker 1: much if you're standing next to a Nazi or a Nazi,
Speaker 1: but like I would argue, no, what's actually the logistics
Speaker 1: of what is happening here are much more dangerous than
Speaker 1: a grandma radicalized into national socialism. Anyway. Another meme I
Speaker 1: found it was a screen grab from fucking um Shawshank
Speaker 1: Redemption with Morgan Freeman and I don't know whatever one
Speaker 1: of the white dudes in that movie in prison jumpsuits,
Speaker 1: sitting next to each other, and it's the text on
Speaker 1: it is what are you in for? I spoke of
Speaker 1: at a school board meeting, which you she see a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff like this, the idea that they're going
Speaker 1: to jail, they're going to get rated by the FBI
Speaker 1: because they're like showing up at school boards to protest
Speaker 1: vaccine mandates and mask mandates. Um. And then like in
Speaker 1: the middle of all this stuff mostly talking about like
Speaker 1: anti vac shit, there's also this post talking about how
Speaker 1: this post that's a video of a woman at a
Speaker 1: school board talking about how a book needed to be banned,
Speaker 1: and she's reading. The book she's reading is a queer memoir, um,
Speaker 1: and it's about I'll talk about this more at the end,
Speaker 1: but you can definitely mention it here because it gets
Speaker 1: up a lot. It's it's a gay it's a gay
Speaker 1: coming of age story, right, And as a result, there's
Speaker 1: a couple of of semi graphic scenes in it. And
Speaker 1: she like gets up in front of the school board
Speaker 1: and reads this and argues that it's basically like pornography.
Speaker 1: The children. They think it's child pornography. Yeah, that's what
Speaker 1: they're marching mistaken what child pornography is. They're trying to
Speaker 1: they're trying to get all the people at the school
Speaker 1: board either killed or arrested over this. That is that
Speaker 1: is their goal. And I'll talk about this specific instance
Speaker 1: later because it keeps coming up with all of these channels,
Speaker 1: and it's one of the main things that links someone
Speaker 1: from like a sodden red channel to a channel like this.
Speaker 1: This is like one of the main things they've been
Speaker 1: using the past few weeks, like this is the current,
Speaker 1: this is like the past, and and this is this
Speaker 1: though has been going on for a while. You've seen
Speaker 1: a lot of like the libertarian right wing, a lot
Speaker 1: of like kill your local pedophile shirts because who's gonna
Speaker 1: and most people don't think, like, who's going to defend
Speaker 1: a pedophile about pedophiles? Yeah, the proud boy at the
Speaker 1: Portland school Board who was standing and ready to fight,
Speaker 1: the ready to fight scared guards and stuff, he was
Speaker 1: wearing a killer local pedophile. Uh, it's this is this
Speaker 1: is the thing. This is the thing the right wing
Speaker 1: figured out. And if they figured this out a long
Speaker 1: time ago, which is that Okay, if if you want
Speaker 1: to get a bunch of people who are vaguely normal
Speaker 1: to do like absolutely horrible violence. The way you do
Speaker 1: it is to tell them that they're threatening kids and
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what yeah, yeah, yeah, and you know
Speaker 1: and this once and what once you've convinced you know,
Speaker 1: like this, this is this is just a very I
Speaker 1: think a very important thing about media messaging in general
Speaker 1: is that the literally the instant someone says think of
Speaker 1: the children, you need to stop and you need to
Speaker 1: disregard everything they're about to say after that stick. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like of the time that person is like about to
Speaker 1: try to convince you that like you need to like
Speaker 1: we need to murder the gauge or something like that.
Speaker 1: Like that's that. That's the thing that follows from I
Speaker 1: feel confident saying no one has ever advocated thinking of
Speaker 1: the children and meant anything, but I want to kill
Speaker 1: this specific group of people. Um, just like I that's
Speaker 1: not even really hyperbole. It's it's a a trite and
Speaker 1: true organizing tactic for these people, and it's part of
Speaker 1: the reason why, like the famous white nationalist catchphrase is
Speaker 1: focused around we need to secure a future for white children, right,
Speaker 1: Like that's what they're always talking about with all of
Speaker 1: this ship and it's it's about being able to demonize
Speaker 1: a group in a way that they can't be defended.
Speaker 1: It's about ending any sort of debate or conversation, and
Speaker 1: it's about justifying thoughtless violence because it's you're protecting children. Um.
Speaker 1: You know who else protects children, Robert, definitely not the
Speaker 1: advertisers of this show, um, because we are sponsored by
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Speaker 1: at a at a technical at a at a terrorist
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Speaker 1: where you aim them. So in that way, they're a
Speaker 1: fire and forget kind of weapon as long as you're
Speaker 1: willing to forget anything but hitting a child's school bus
Speaker 1: with the with the missile. Okay, here's here's some as
Speaker 1: check it out. All right, we have we're back still
Speaker 1: talking about this. Uh so last segment for this episode.
Speaker 1: As we as we as I was talking about that,
Speaker 1: there's a post and in the post is a video
Speaker 1: of a woman from a different school board meeting reading
Speaker 1: out a graphics graphic ish sex scene from this queer
Speaker 1: memoir and ranting about how it's it's child pornography. Comments
Speaker 1: include fucking monsters running these schools, satanic and disgusting an
Speaker 1: elementary school. Unreal. Why aren't charges brought against the school
Speaker 1: for distributing pornography to minors? It's not even read they
Speaker 1: can It's just available from some other library. It's like,
Speaker 1: because you can request a lot of books at libraries
Speaker 1: in all caps, where's the sheriffs, where are the city, county, state,
Speaker 1: and federal task forces? And uh yeah, it's It'll talk
Speaker 1: about this more in the next episode. Tied to the
Speaker 1: overarching anti anti queer, anti trans, anti gay school board
Speaker 1: side of things, and of course other things I found.
Speaker 1: There's like video of them celebrating Capital rioters, celebrating Josh
Speaker 1: Holly for defending Capital rioters. Um. I went into some
Speaker 1: other channels that were adjacent that I saw shared, you know,
Speaker 1: in this channel. One of them was Oscar's midnight writer
Speaker 1: Patriot Post channel, which actually has thousands and thousands of followers.
Speaker 1: Average post would get two to three thousand views. Um,
Speaker 1: here's one. I'm considered a domestic terrorist if I tell
Speaker 1: a school board that I don't want my eight year
Speaker 1: old daughter watching sex videos in her third grade classroom. Um,
Speaker 1: and that post was right above this post. The constitution
Speaker 1: actually says you can legally overthrow your government if they
Speaker 1: are tyrannical. And that post was right above this post,
Speaker 1: which was a screen which was a screen grab from
Speaker 1: a Twitter account for a guy who calls himself Murray
Speaker 1: Rothbard seventeen seventies X. The FBI didn't rate Epstein Island
Speaker 1: or protect hundreds of young female gymnasts from being sexually
Speaker 1: assaulted for years, but they'll raid your PTA meetings when
Speaker 1: you questioned the curriculum and on scientific mask mandates and
Speaker 1: their indoctrination camps, I mean public schools. And of course
Speaker 1: this from Twitter user named Emerald Robinson. And again this
Speaker 1: is all shared in that channel. It's like a screen
Speaker 1: grab from Twitter. When the FBI starts arresting parents at
Speaker 1: school board meetings, just remember the GOP senators who made
Speaker 1: it happen by confirming Merritt Gardland as Attorney general. And
Speaker 1: then it's a list of Republican u Emerald Emarad Robinson
Speaker 1: is the White House correspondent for news Max. Oh right,
Speaker 1: oh my god, yeah, you're right. Uh huh great, great,
Speaker 1: So I don't know. That's probably all I should get into.
Speaker 1: Uh well, no, there's we can more things. So Oscar's
Speaker 1: Midnight Writer, which was shared in in that uh that
Speaker 1: school board channel took me to the Western Chauvinist school
Speaker 1: Board Channel, which took me to a post which with
Speaker 1: a video UM with a link to a video. The
Speaker 1: text with the video was woman at school board meeting
Speaker 1: calls out Jewish power by name um and it's a
Speaker 1: woman ranting about how the Jews are behind all of
Speaker 1: the critical race theory in schools UM. So again not
Speaker 1: hard to get to this kind of ship. Another post
Speaker 1: was it was in the Western Chauvinist Telegram. It was
Speaker 1: sharing a post from the Murder the Media telegram who
Speaker 1: were part of the Capital riot. UM. That post from
Speaker 1: Murder the Media was National school Board Association apology letter
Speaker 1: for calling you domestic terrorists. It was we'll talk about
Speaker 1: this later, but the comment in the Western Chauvinist was like,
Speaker 1: we don't apologize for being like for being domestic terrorists.
Speaker 1: Like we're yeah, we we think it's rad that they
Speaker 1: called us domestic terrorists. Because Javinist channel, by the way,
Speaker 1: has over fifty subscribers UM and used to be a
Speaker 1: proud Boy channel, which is now just a general kind
Speaker 1: of farther right wing organizing channel that it's probably it's
Speaker 1: one of the most shared Telegram channels in this whole network. UM,
Speaker 1: and they are really good at creating propaganda that appeals
Speaker 1: to Trump voters while slipping in a lot of accelerationist
Speaker 1: talking points UM to slowly lead people on that breadcrumb
Speaker 1: trail to make them be okay with mass violence. There
Speaker 1: was a comment in there, forwarded from another from the
Speaker 1: telegram account of a guy named Eric Striker. UM and
Speaker 1: this was a post Striker made commenting on a video
Speaker 1: of a father being dragged out of a quote woke
Speaker 1: school board meeting. UM for uh complaining of complaining about
Speaker 1: this kind of ship UM. The post from Eric Striker
Speaker 1: I think is worth reading, and I'm going to read
Speaker 1: it now. For now, all we can do is impotently
Speaker 1: watch injustices like this unfold. This is really upsetting. We
Speaker 1: must build our political organization to the point where we
Speaker 1: can rapidly mobilize to defend this man, including physical demonstrations,
Speaker 1: sent him free legal support, and make people realize that
Speaker 1: the time of fucking with whites is over. We need
Speaker 1: our own media, civil society groups and activists. We need
Speaker 1: money and volunteers. It's not the Republican Party or anything
Speaker 1: in the conservative movement. It never or will be. We
Speaker 1: need to build it from scratch. We are well underway
Speaker 1: National Justice Party. We must quietly and patiently build. Eventually
Speaker 1: we will have the capacity to come on the scene
Speaker 1: when they at least expect it and will be and
Speaker 1: we will be too powerful to stop. And that's probably
Speaker 1: where we should end for today. Yep. That that's a
Speaker 1: good part, good sad intro into the current problem of
Speaker 1: schoolboard meetings. We'll get into a lot more like accelerating
Speaker 1: rhetoric in the next bit and then talk about kind
Speaker 1: of where the stuff originated from and the other other
Speaker 1: side of things beyond just like the CRT and UH
Speaker 1: and and mask stuff, because it branches out into a
Speaker 1: lot of other kind of adjacent cultural war bullshit issues. Um. Anyway, yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll do that tomorrow. Um. You can follow the show
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