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'"Monster Liberty": That's how the otherwise excellent closed-captioning
service in the auditorium at Pennridge High School interpreted "Moms for
Liberty," while one of several dozen citizens who had waited in line to lambast
the group spoke at the podium. A chuckle rose up among the parents in the
crowded school board meeting, held on a late August evening after the first day
of classes for the Pennridge School District in suburban Bucks County,
Pennsylvania. "Fair enough," one mother whispered to another.
That wasn't the only moment of levity that evening, which saw a robust crowd of
largely irate parents speak out against the adoption of a social studies
curriculum linked to far-right organizations like Moms for Liberty and
Hillsdale College. Before the meeting, people exchanged wisecracks about
"talented clappers" — an inside-joke reference to an email circulated among
local conservatives that appealed for sympathetic outsiders to turn out and
applaud the right-wing agenda: "You do not need to be a resident to attend and
clap," it advised, for "policies that bless and protect our children."'
Via Esther Schindler.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
