Happy Mother’s Day! You’re an extremist!

The same outfit who created a “hate map” from which would-be mass murderer Floyd Lee Corkins took his targets from has just labeled citizens concerned about what their children are learning in school as “extremists.”

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has just continues to beclown themselves with this latest move, which is yet another “politicizing” attack on Common Core opposition.

SPLC is no Arne Duncan here. They’re not just aiming at moms like Duncan, they’re trying to smear the whole lot.

Daily Caller reported on the matter, explaining the evil Koch brothers are behind it all:

The report largely ignores the large number of critics on the American political left, including the Chicago Teachers Union, who deplore Common Core because it mandates evermore standardized testing. It also largely ignores the complaints of a multitude of critics on the right, who oppose a technocratic takeover of public education that wrests education decisions out of the hands of local school boards and parents.

Instead, the SPLC report insists, opposition to Common Core comes from “far-right extremists” who oppose Common Core out of fears it will “indoctrinate young children into ‘the homosexual lifestyle’” and “turn children into ‘green serfs’ who will serve a totalitarian ‘New World Order.’”

“The disinformation campaign is being driven by the likes of Fox News, the John Birch Society, Tea Party factions, and the Christian Right,” the report declares. The SPLC also mentions “the Koch brothers,” of course.

The conspiracy theorists behind the SPLC report theorize that “the radical right” hopes to use opposition to Common Core as a proxy in a broader fight to terminate all public education for some 50 million schoolchildren in the United States.

Wow. The stupid. It burns.

Daily Beast also has an equally stupid article. I won’t send them the traffic. It’s written by some clueless knee-jerk bash-righty type named Caitlin Dickson who spends the first 3 paragraphs making the same valid arguments Common Core opposition has made, but then links to the Southern Poverty Hate Center report; Zero finesse in that piece. Dickson quotes SPLC, then turns around and gives a total rational quote from one of the accused “extremists” as somehow proof of the SPLC claim.

Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

In closing…
Dear SPLC Clowns: These are not extremists. These are parents, teachers, students, grandparents, moms, dads, sisters and brothers. They are not extremists, they are citizens engaged in what happens to their children. Nice try attempting to smear us with ‘the tea party is racist’ trope. We are moms and if you mess with our kids, we will take you down like a category 5 hurricane. Stuff it. 🙂 Sincerely, Common Core Opposition