Reuters came out with a lengthy report on the right wing harassment of school officials, and it’s not pretty

Feb 22, 2022 1:45 AM

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And of course, the Republican politicians are misconstruing this to make their base even more angry. This is not okay America.

Sauce: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-education-threats/

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Saying it now. If strangers harass the school my kids go to, especially for shit like this, fists are flying

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 3

The war on Education is the only war the USA can win these days & its waging it against its own citizens.

4 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 1

Email header has ISP/IP. Get atty to file Order to Release from ISP from district Court. $500-1K. You’ll get names addresses. Payback time

4 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

A "hand-scrawled note" sent in the postal mail doesn't have email headers.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Communicating a threat (VA 18.2-60) is a Class 6 FELONY in the state of Virginia, class 5 Felony if a terrorist threat. I want this enforced

4 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

If we don't see landslide victories for Dems this mid-term, we are fucked.

4 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 1

Very disturbing. And- the threats really show their misogyny

4 years ago | Likes 32 Dislikes 4

And I will bet green money that every fucking one of these nuts is a church-going "Crees-chin".

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Are there no more adults?

4 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 3

Damn Virginia, thanks for taking the heat off of TN for a minute.

4 years ago | Likes 87 Dislikes 3

You’re not welcome. Take it back please. It’s embarrassing.

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

This is what happens when the new Governor ran explicitly stating he would Protect the people threatening school boards.

4 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Start. Arresting. People. Sentence them to actual jail time. You can disagree, but death threats are not acceptable discourse.

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Fascists going to fascist...?

4 years ago | Likes 391 Dislikes 5

Right Wingers gotta right wing.

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4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Absolutely. I’m glad Reuters did the work of finding the receipts. This won’t change the right’s minds though, they’ll continue to fascist.

4 years ago | Likes 51 Dislikes 0

"Everything I don't like is fake news." - A mentally challenged idiots guide to gaslighting.

4 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

You will not be able to convince a historian of the 26th century that the Republican Party wasn't a cult. Or one of the 21st century.

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Time to legit mark them a terrorist group and ban them from things for the safety of this country. But we are too pussy to do it.

4 years ago | Likes 30 Dislikes 1

The USA does not have a mechanism to label a domestic groups as terrorists, we're not supposed to do collective punishment. I also don't 1/

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 4

2/ trust the United States government to use a new power like that appropriately. Any social justice group would be labeled as terrorists

4 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 3

3/3 the minute a Republican got into power. Hell even if you're an animal rights activist (A real one, not PETA)

4 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 3

Also- thanks for posting the article

4 years ago | Likes 46 Dislikes 1

As soon as I read it, I felt compelled to share it everywhere. It’s very scary.

4 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

I really fear for and am heart broken by country.

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

*this/my country

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Putin is laughing his nukes off.

4 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

They've abandoned any semblance of civilized behavior. This is why right-wing extremism cannot be tolerated under the guise of free speech.

4 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

When people feel threatened, economically insecure and angry, far-right ideology spreads like a wildfire. It can't be allowed on the ...

4 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

political stage or in the media & any group that forms around such an ideology needs to be closely watched.Germany learned this the hard way

4 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Right wing snowflakes. I hope they all get the Herman Cain ward.

4 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

Is that what they're calling the COVID wing at the hospital, now? :)

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Violent, aggressive, ignorant morons want to make sure their kids grow up to be as stupid and angry as they are.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Conservatives are nothing like they preach. They’re angry, violent, extreme, radical, racists (hard stop)

4 years ago | Likes 70 Dislikes 3

What they preach is how they want YOU to behave: They punch you, you turn the other cheek. They hurt you for selfish gain, you forgive them.

4 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

Republicans are like this. Republicans are not conservatives. Republicans are fascists.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Conservatism has always been this.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

...and what are Democrats doing against this? Absolutely nothing. It's maddening.

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

4 years ago | Likes 168 Dislikes 5

Get Samuel L. Jackson on the phone

4 years ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 0

I mean, you laugh, but there's literally a cringeworthy rehash of Antebellum coming out that is... basically that as a movie. TBC, not anti1

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

2woke, just saying the movie looks awful- despite the cast, because of how obvious it is that they stole the concept.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Sir, if there’s gonna be underboob, ice, stacks, and honkeys punched, I want in on CRT. And for my kids. Ok I just want more underboob ngl

4 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 1

I want the car personally.

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Every single person making these death threats should be in jail without bond pending trial for terrorist threats. In the least, they 1/

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should end up with a hefty fine and loss of rights to deadly weapons (guns) for the rest of their lives. We need to make it clear, this 2/

4 years ago | Likes 38 Dislikes 1

level of hate and rhetoric ISN'T acceptable and shouldn't be normalized. 3/3

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4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Every time I see an article about the far-right going too far, it's actually about the police absolutely refusing to arrest or investigate.

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Alberta in 4 months

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Alright, fuck it. Threaten them right back. You want a culture war, I'll fight to let people exist. That's something with the risk.

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

A red baseball cap is the new swastika.

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4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

come on down and bring it on and see how it turns out. money on them fascists pussin out or jail on assault/attempted murder charges!

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

in other words. fuck around with me and find out. the HARD way. i dont deal with terroristic threats kindly

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Fucking republicans are out of control. Time to hose them down with acid and leave them to melt into a giant heap of goo.

4 years ago | Likes 242 Dislikes 10

Oddly specific. Someone work for Chemical company? Trying to drive up sales?

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Ha, agreed. But watch ....I got a lengthy warning from imgur about much less of an opinion like yours related to a certain senator.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Agreed ?

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I’ll bring popcorn and some lawn chairs

4 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 2

But...thats where Trump came from. A giant heap of goo. Im afraid they will all mold into themselves to create a racist Voltron.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

How is this different? Of course, I agree with the sentiment, but isn't it kind of what we're objecting to here?

4 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 10

It's the story of the scorpion and the frog. We can try to reason and understand the scorpion, but it'll always drag us under with it.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Accepting the intolerant is allowing intolerance. There must be a line in which Nazi faces get punched to allow tolerance to stand

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Fully depends on whether people saying we should assault/kill bad people are serious or really just mean vote them out and prosecute.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

No. There's a difference between tolerating intolerant hateful cunts, and tolerating ordinary, well-meaning people who are upset.

4 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 2

Yes, the fascists are never going to be acting in good faith, so any compromise with them will be a loss

4 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

In other words, if you're okay with putting up with this kind of dangerous, fascistic behavior, you should start applying for asylum in NZ.

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

(so you can get rejected and end up having to deal with the consequences of your inaction)

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

I didn't say I was okay with the death threat behavior. I was just pointing out the irony. Throw their asses in jail, judiciously. 1/?

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

It would be interesting to re-balance the prison population racially through prosecution of these type criminals; Inside traders (congress)

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

in the same way shooting nazis and invading Germany is dif than nazi’s invading other countries. its such a fundamental important nuance>

4 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

and facet of life that it is almost impossible to explain it to people who don’t just get it. the fundamental difference between right>

4 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

and wrong. it can most simply be put into words as follows. “intolerance must not be tolerated and must be stamped out with unflinching>

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force. those who hate others for fundamental aspects of who they are, race, gender, color, religion, and threaten or partake in violence>

4 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

Yanno how you fix that? Anyone found sending this shit, their child is expelled indefinitely and from every school in the district. There…

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

will also be charged filed as well as restraining orders.

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

That doesn't sound like it'd be very helpful to the child.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It teaches the child actions have consequences. Not the child’s fault, but perhaps it also teaches the parent that too and MAYBE they’ll…

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

change for the better and become better parents. Hopefully.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

'The actions of people you can't control have punishing consequences for you and that's a good thing' is a hideous lesson to teach a child.

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