A right-wing “parents’ rights” group that made headway in school board races and state-level legislation targeting LGBT+ people was designated an “anti-government extremist” organisation by the Southern Poverty Law Center in its latest review of the state of hate groups in America.
The report finds that schools have increasingly become a medium for locally driven extremist activity, with Moms for Liberty joining a dozen groups leading efforts to gain power through local school boards to undermine public education and restrict access to books, classroom materials and honest discussions of race, racism, LGBT+ people and gender and sexuality.
