There they go again!
If there’s a single trait that defines the “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) crowd, it’s their seething intolerance. Under no circumstances will they permit dissent from their totalitarian agenda.
The diversity fascists’ bullying and intimidation were on full display in woke, lily-white, affluent Falmouth on January 18th, at a public meeting organized by school officials to discuss the district’s DEI policies and programs.
But given the angry, near-hysterical personal attacks on the mother who dared to push back — however gently — against Leftist indoctrination in the classroom, it’s not hard to imagine the vicious verbal attacks eventually escalating into mob violence.
I don’t say that lightly.
You be the judge.
I invite you to listen carefully to the audio recording of the mother’s comments to the crowd of about 100 people in attendance. During her four and a half minutes at the microphone, she calmly referenced the secretive gender-transition counseling in Damariscotta, as well as the notion that America is a racist country.
She opined that America is NOT a racist country, but rather a welcoming country that happens to, unfortunately, still have a small number of racists in it. She reminded the audience that “we have people dying to come to our country.”
The next two speakers strongly disagreed with those views, but
stopped short of inciting hatred against the Falmouth mom.
Not so with the final speaker, who identified herself as the only black woman in the room. Her angry, rambling tirade built to a crescendo of hatred, and concluded with this accusation thrown at the mom who simply stated her opinion that America is not a racist country:
To my ears, this baseless, fact-free, vitriolic rant sounded like something out of the “Two Minute Hate” in George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. I don’t believe it would have required more than another minute or two of demagoguery at the Falmouth event to have driven some in the crowd to start throwing things at the heretic.
This unhinged outburst may be a sign we are witnessing the beginning stages of cultural Marxism in its death throes. Its defenders can’t debate their agenda on its merits, so they resort to smearing their critics as racists.
The only thing the diversity fascists have going for them is bullying, but that’s now beginning to wear thin. Actual racism is a terrible thing. But the Social Justice Psychos have now made the word meaningless by calling everyone who disagrees with them racist.
Their defamation and intimidation tactics have awakened the slumbering giant.
I don’t believe Maine parents are going to surrender their children to woke “educators” who want to infect the next generation of Mainers with Transgender Derangement Syndrome — and teach them to hate themselves and their country.
Maine First Project will continue to recruit and train a grassroots army of Mainers to fight the deliberate dumbing down and indoctrination that are the rule rather than the exception in our K-12 government-run schools.
Hon. Lawrence Lockman
Maine House of Representatives, 2012-2020
Co-founder & President
