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Apparently, the conservative group that fights for parents’ white fragility—sorry, parents’ rights—gathered for its annual conference in Philadelphia over the weekend. Some 700 members of the group affectionately referred to on social media as “Klanned Karenhood” were pandered to by Republican presidential candidates like Florida governor and crazed woke regulator Ron DeSantis, former president and federal defendant-in-chief Donald Trump, and racism-denying-but-also-Confederacy-loving former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley.

But since nobody is really surprised that some of the GOP’s most prominent white nationalist cult leaders were singing the praises of a MAGA mommy group that was named a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center last month, it was the pandering by ABC News that seemingly caught the most condemnation by the fine folks on Twitter for referring to the QKaron tribe as “joyful warriors” who are “fighting back” as if the group’s members have been oppressed by anything besides their own absurd fear that learning about systemic racism and different gender identities will cause their children’s minds to implode.

SHAME ON YOU @ABC! Mom’s For Liberty were aligning extremist groups even before they quoted Hitler, at least 2x. They’re funded by conservative dark money organizations…not just a group of “joyful warriors” or “moms”. #HoesForHitler #StopTheSpin pic.twitter.com/vS5PcshkdK

— Laurie (@Laurieluvsmolly) July 2, 2023

Now, to be fair, ABC only mentioned that Moms of Liberty members refer to themselves as “joyful warriors,” but the author of the article did appear to go out of her way to make the group sound like a living Braveheart sequel fighting against the tyranny of*checks notes*—”gender ideology.”

From ABC:

They’re mad at their teachers, their principals, their president. And now they’re fighting back through school boards, local elections and — if they get their way — their next president.

This weekend’s Moms for Liberty conference showcases how local issues like education can have tremendous, galvanizing national influence, as Gov. Ron DeSantis, former President Donald Trump, and former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley tried to woo nearly 700 attendees of the over 150,000-member group Friday.

Several key breakout sessions at the center of the group’s mission, such as “Protecting Kids from Gender Ideology” and “Getting Flipped School Boards To Take Action” were kept behind closed doors, with media access barred. But still, the enthusiasm at open events was palpable, nearly bouncing off the ballroom walls.

Look, nobody is expecting ABC to call Moms of Liberty the white, fragile and queerphobic group of Kackling Karen Kadets that they are, but to validate them as heroic revolutionaries is pretty shameful, especially since there was no mention of the group’s history of trying to ban anything into oblivion if it irritates the delicate sensibilities of straight, cisgender white people who love America but hate its government, at least half its citizens and certainly its cultural melting pot.

It was a so-called liberty-loving mom who got Amanda Gorman’s inauguration poem banned from a Florida school district because Gorman mentioned racial equality and gender identity affirmation. It was members of the group in Tennessee who launched anti-critical race theory complaints against Black history books that taught the civil rights movement era stories of Martin Luther King Jr. and Ruby Bridges, proving, once again, that anti-CRT advocates largely have no idea what CRT is and are just applying it to literally anything involving race that makes white conservatives wag their white supremacist fingers.

Anyway, folks on Twitter did not pull any punches while going in on ABC News and other media outlets for normalizing the moms who really only want to liberate themselves from non-whitewashed reality.

Dear Media: Please don’t forget the mistakes of how y’all covered the 2016 election. Also, feel free to review that whole pre-World War II era/rise of fascism. I just saw @abcnews refer to Moms For Liberty as “joyful warriors” – they are an extremist group pretending to want 1/

— Sari Beth Rosenberg (@saribethrose) July 2, 2023

Moms for Liberty is linked with the Proud Boys, a chapter quotes Hitler, they are behind book bans, they are funded by right wing groups and…
ABC News calls them “joyful warriors.” The Whiteness of it all is exhausting.

— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) July 2, 2023

@ABC
Moms For Liberty

NOT joyful warriors
NOT followers of Christ

Quote Hitler
Promote hate
Patriot Front without underwear on their faces.

Do your research.
DO BETTER. pic.twitter.com/6B0x4ikQKR

— murphyb849 (@murphyb849) July 3, 2023

ABC News praised the hate group Moms for Liberty as “joyful warriors”

60 Minutes aired a puff piece on them

60 Minutes normalized terrorist Marjorie Taylor Greene

Washington Post crowned her “Queen of the GOP Fringe”

The money-grubbing media is the Handmaiden of Fascism

— Lindy Li (@lindyli) July 3, 2023

“Moms for liberty” are not the first group of “joyful warriors” fighting to bring back “Christian values” in America.

Their predecessors held a “Pro American Rally” on Feb 20, 1939-
That turned out to be a giant nothing burger, so I don’t see what all the fuss is about.. https://t.co/ZMi5sf46DC pic.twitter.com/YG4CfOCPUz

— Lauren Boebert is Trash (@adoptseniordogs) July 3, 2023

“Let me set the record straight: Moms for Liberty is NOT a group of “joyful warriors,” nor are they “fighting” for a just cause. They are a fascist, far-right extremist group that has NO place in our society. ABC’s description & normalization of them is why our media fails us.”

— QuoteDigger (@QuoteDigging) July 3, 2023

One group is fighting for the rights of marginalized people, while the joyful warriors at Moms for Liberty try to trample them through draconian laws that throw us back into the 50s or worse.

It’s the message that matters, Tina, not the tone. pic.twitter.com/VG96QxkM34

— FOSTER in Unity (@FOSTERinUnity) July 2, 2023

Listen, if ABC and other media outlets want to get on their Fox News steez and start covering MAGA World cultists like they’re actual freedom fighters, that’s their business. But they should be prepared for people to drag them for it, because the only people who like white nationalist cheerleaders are, well, white nationalists.

SEE ALSO:

‘Moms For Liberty’ Among Right-Wing ‘Parental Rights’ Groups Labeled ‘Extremists’ By Civil Rights Group

Amanda Gorman’s Inauguration Poem Among Works Banned At Florida School Over 1 Parent’s CRT Fears


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