132: We Will Not Let Hate Win with Sen. Mallory McMorrow
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🗓️ 13 May 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Host Reed Galen is joined by Senator Mallory McMorrow, a Democratic member of the Michigan State Senate representing Michigan’s 13th District. They discuss the importance of Sen. McMorrow’s now viral speech in which she took to the Senate floor to defend herself against the absurd accusations from Republican State Senator Lana Theis who, in a fundraising email, had accused Sen. McMorrow of wanting to “groom and sexualize kindergarteners”. Can Sen. McMorrow’s response to the attack be a prescription for how the pro-democracy coalition can and should be fighting back against the authoritarian right? Plus, perspective on the Supreme Court’s leaked draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade and why Michigan is crucial in securing our nation’s democratic future.
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| 0:00.0 | I didn't expect to wake up yesterday to the news that the Senator from the 22nd District |
| 0:04.4 | had overnight accused me by name of grooming and sexualizing children in an email fundraising |
| 0:13.1 | for herself. |
| 0:15.1 | So I sat on it for a while wondering why me. |
| 0:19.0 | And then I realized, because I am the biggest threat to your hollow, hateful scheme, because |
| 0:25.4 | you can't claim that you are targeting marginalized kids in the name of quote, parental rights if |
| 0:31.6 | another parent is standing up to say no. |
| 0:35.6 | So then what? |
| 0:36.9 | Then you dehumanize and marginalize me. |
| 0:39.7 | You say that I'm one of them. |
| 0:41.8 | You say she's a groomer. |
| 0:43.1 | She supports pedophilia. |
| 0:44.5 | She wants children to believe that they were responsible for slavery and to feel bad about |
| 0:49.1 | themselves because they're white. |
| 0:51.2 | So who am I? I am a straight white Christian married suburban mom who knows that the very |
| 0:57.4 | notion that learning about slavery or redlining or systemic racism somehow means that children |
| 1:03.3 | are being taught to feel bad or hate themselves because they are white is absolute nonsense. |
| 1:09.6 | And I know that hate will only win if people like me stand by and let it happen. |
| 1:18.6 | So I want to be very clear right now, call me whatever you want. |
| 1:21.8 | I hope you brought in a few dollars. |
| 1:23.4 | I hope it made you sleep good last night. |
| 1:26.1 | I know who I am. |
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