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<p>The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for the first time classified Moms for Liberty as an “anti-government extremist” group, part of its latest “<a href="https://www.splcenter.org/year-hate-extremism-2022/introduction#hateextremism">Year in Hate & Extremism</a>” report released Tuesday. </p>
<p>The group was one of 11 other so-called “parents’ rights” groups that the extremism watchdog organization labeled as such in the report.</p>
<p>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 <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/moms-for-liberty-loses-its-sht-over-seminole-school-yearbooks-lgbtq-page">school yearbook’s LGBTQ+ page</a> and allegedly <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/moms-for-liberty-leader-allegedly-hijacked-dead-womans-facebook-page-to-harass-foes">hacking a dead woman’s Facebook account</a> to harass foes, among other headline-grabbing tactics.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/moms-for-liberty-labeled-extremist-group-for-first-time-by-southern-poverty-law-center">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for the first time classified Moms for Liberty as an “anti-government extremist” group, part of its latest “Year in Hate & Extremism” report released Tuesday.
The group was one of 11 other so-called “parents’ rights” groups that the extremism watchdog organization labeled as such in the report.
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.
