Episode 230: Gamergate For Moms feat David Gilbert
Added 2023-05-06 00:45:43 +0000 UTCWhat happens when you combine gamergate and yelling at local elected officials? You get something akin to Moms For Liberty. The nonprofit bills itself as a parental rights organization and grew to hundreds of chapters over the past three years. Though many victims have claimed that the group pushes its agenda through harassment and intimidation, they say they just care about ethics in school curriculums. To help get a better sense of what Moms For Liberty is really about, we spoke to Vice News reporter David Gilbert. He spoke to people targeted by Moms For Liberty for his report "A Far-Right Moms Group Is Terrorizing Schools in the Name of Protecting Kids.”
David Gilbert
https://twitter.com/daithaigilbert
References
https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3gnq/what-is-moms-for-liberty
https://buckscountybeacon.com/2022/10/the-right-wing-money-and-influence-behind-moms-for-liberty/
https://twitter.com/daithaigilbert?lang=en
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/11/07/the-right-wing-mothers-fuelling-the-school-board-wars
QAA's Website: https://qanonanonymous.com
Music by Anahedron. Editing by Corey Klotz.
Comments
Going back over old episodes after this crazy election and just realize that America is really really gone.
Jenelle
2024-11-19 01:38:11 +0000 UTCJust played this, made me very happy I don’t live in the USA. Then I remembered that what happens in America usually gets exported to my rainy island.
Andrew Billings
2024-05-30 17:20:10 +0000 UTCWashington
Carrie Schreck
2023-09-25 02:00:17 +0000 UTCScary goings on: https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/07/06/republican-presidential-candidates-canoodle-with-moms-for-liberty [pay-walled, but free read per month for sign-up]
Nèv
2023-07-09 08:41:08 +0000 UTCTransphobes: we need to protect white women by keeping trans women out of bathrooms. White women: burning the mother fu**ing houses down of everyone who upsets them.
Ask Me Later
2023-05-21 23:01:06 +0000 UTCMan, this really makes me wish I could go live in a cave and leave the civilized world. It's much too awful.
Brandi Ray
2023-05-19 23:48:01 +0000 UTCTHIS (with due appreciation for the rest of the content) is why I pay for QAA. I've heard about Moms for Liberty and seen their insane commentary ....but never had the full picture. Definitely reading the article, Thanks!
C’mon
2023-05-17 18:56:22 +0000 UTCI’d be using stand your ground if those shitbags were harassing me in my home around my children.
Landry
2023-05-16 23:38:58 +0000 UTCAbsolutely terrifying.
Landry
2023-05-16 23:36:06 +0000 UTCI was pretty triggered by this episode. It is insane to me that people can harasses and terrorize people without consequence.
2023-05-13 18:05:06 +0000 UTCAyup, peaced out early.
Horse Badorties
2023-05-13 07:43:21 +0000 UTCYup. 100%.
2023-05-11 23:27:37 +0000 UTCFor the first time, I didn't finish listening to this episode because I found it too upsetting/depressing. Congrats?
2023-05-11 23:26:35 +0000 UTCsoccer mom shock troops of the hotdog fourth reich. dizzying.
Karl Childers
2023-05-11 14:34:53 +0000 UTCThis may be the darkest episode I've heard yet. The ratcheting up of rhetoric into action, the cynical connection with electoral politics, and the pretense that this has anything whatsoever to do with parenting... none of it bodes well. Genuinely disturbed.
Brad Plumb
2023-05-10 03:38:15 +0000 UTCI just realized Jakes laugh sounds like Dr Hibbert
joshua veno
2023-05-09 18:34:42 +0000 UTCThis was a fantastic episode. Huge fan of these old school style episodes.
2023-05-08 21:56:31 +0000 UTCHold the phone... As a foster kid who grew up in Florida, I know for a fact that DCF has to call or otherwise notify you BEFORE coming to your home. If they just "showed up" at this woman's door one day asking to, what, "examine her child's genitals"? That is incredibly alarming and I question if they were a real DCF agent.
Stephanie Williams
2023-05-08 21:43:29 +0000 UTC
