Episode 230: Gamergate For Moms feat David Gilbert

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Julian Feeld, Travis View & Jake Rockatansky

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🗓️ 6 May 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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What 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 Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Manclan' and 'Trickle Down': http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous QAA's Website: https://qanonanonymous.com Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz.

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0:00.0	Welcome listener to chapter 230 of the QAnon Anonymous podcast, The Gamergate for
0:21.0	Mom's episode, as always we are your host Jake Rakutansky, Julian Fields, and Travis
0:25.7	View. The school year is coming to a close. If you're a student or teacher you're probably
0:31.6	listening to this instead of completing your final assignments. To celebrate the class
0:35.6	of 2023, today we're exploring the group Mom's for Liberty, a non-profit that basically
0:40.8	does gamergate against school administrators. Though victims say that Mom's for Liberty
0:45.7	tried to get their way through harassment and intimidation of school boards and teachers,
0:50.3	the organization claims they just care about ethics in the school curriculum. Since the
0:54.5	group's founding in Florida in 2020, its influence over local and national Republican
0:59.0	politics has grown exponentially. It's now a nationwide movement with 260 chapters. To
1:04.7	help us learn how we got here, Travis is going to walk us through some of the organization's
1:08.6	history of harassment, book banning, and their ties to conspiracies. Then we're going
1:13.0	to speak to Vice News reporter David Gilbert about what he uncovered while speaking to students,
1:18.9	administrators, parents, superintendents, school board members, and teachers who have faced
1:23.8	attacks by Mom's for Liberty. So let's get right into this. Just right off the bat, I'm
1:28.5	going to say Mom's loved you better when you were against drunk driving. I think there's
1:33.5	probably a lot of work still there to do, not sure why we shifted to anti-CRT or whatever.
1:39.1	Yeah, I feel like there are a lot of great causes for Mom's to get involved in, but aren't
1:43.4	stupid. Like both of your Mom's, they've stayed busy. Yeah. Yeah, there are lots that
1:49.3	Mom's can do, but for some reason, yet again, yeah, they decided to, at least some Mom's
1:55.8	decided to get mad both online and offline. If you mix together the Tea Party movement,
2:01.2	Kiwi Farms and people who have nothing better to do than yell at their local school boards,
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