Another day, another outburst of impotent rage from Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.
The house rep has become known for peddling conspiracy theories and bashing LGBTQ Pride. Now she's combined both into a tweet of pure political nonsense.
Greene tweeted in response to a video shared of a young girl at a school board meeting, describing her experience with some of the things being taught at her school.
The video was shared by Greene, who used it to call for a ban on critical race theory and to compare teaching children about homosexuality to child abuse.
Listen to this child. \n\nEvery single person needs to hear her. \n\nBAN Critical Race Theory & STOP sexualizing children NOW with tax payer funded education.\n\nTeaching racism and promoting sex, homosexuality, & normalizing transgender to children is mental/emotional child abuse.https://twitter.com/therealbenorr/status/1408041591567224839\u00a0\u2026— Marjorie Taylor Greene \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@Marjorie Taylor Greene \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8) 1624810450
The video has a 14-year-old girl testifying at a local school board meeting. With her mother standing right behind her, she explains her difficulty and trauma in early years and also questions being taught about sexuality in school and white privilege.
Greene retweeted this video and wrote:
"BAN Critical Race Theory & STOP sexualizing children NOW with tax payer funded education."
"Teaching racism and promoting sex, homosexuality, & normalizing transgender to children is mental/emotional child abuse."
This is despite the fact that critical race theory isn't taught in grade school, and is in fact an academic movement and legal analysis reserved for high level education and theory.
Also, many online found Greene's comments about homosexuality and transgender just plain bigoted.
@RepMTG Marjorie Taylor Greene stupidly says talking about homosexuality in schools is \u201cchild abuse\u201d \nBut, honey, when you talk you abuse the whole frigging country!!— Jim Minahan (@Jim Minahan) 1624977680
First Marjorie Taylor Greene lies about #CriticalRaceTheory then claims that learning about the existence of #LGBTQ people is child abuse. What the heck were people on when they elected @mtgreenee? Bad acid? #pride #Pride2021 #PrideMonthhttps://twitter.com/holybullies/status/1410038641229971465\u00a0\u2026— Holy Bullies (@Holy Bullies) 1625014519
Critical Race Theory IS NOT BEING TAUGHT IN MIDDLE SCHOOL OR HIGH SCHOOLS IN THE UNITED STATES! It is a subject being offered in college. White privilege IS REAL! I\u2019m sorry she had a tough upbringing, but she has never been in danger solely because of her skin color.— Democracy Restored (@Democracy Restored) 1624811024
Literally every school has sex-ed , that's where you learn about puberty, genitals, pregnancy, STDs and much more. Hell they even teach you about the dangers of sleeping with multiple people and not cheating on your husband.\n\nMaybe you should've listened about not cheating— MJames (@MJames) 1624810830
No one should ever listen to you about parenting children.— Bye Bye Boebert (@Bye Bye Boebert) 1624811224
Critical race theory has become what many believe to be a new boogie-man for right-wing politicians and pundits. The high level, academic theory has been claimed to be taught in schools and pushed on children. They also claim it teaches white people to hate themselves.
What the theory actually teaches, once again only to high level academics and legal scholars, is to examine social, cultural, and legal issues and how they've been affected by the past and present of race relations.
Sex ED is, however, a standard part of public education, one the United States falls far behind in teaching. On top of this, homophobia runs rampant, and a solution is to ensure children are educated on the issue.
This is important, because 8 states have all but outright banned teaching about LGBTQ issues.
If anything, Greene already got her way a long time ago, and it's time that was fixed.
Sounds like we should just ignore racism and actual history and instead teach everyone to sing Kumbaya on the reg? That would be so much more pleasant and would confirm America\u2019s perfection. Plus it would allow you to keep ignoring racism. Got it.— Perry Payton (@Perry Payton) 1624707125
What\u2019s wrong with sex Ed? We all had sex Ed growing up. The new issues that they are now learning about are true realities. What\u2019s wrong with teaching history? We love one another by learning each other\u2019s history and by showing empathy to their pain.— David Simcoe (@David Simcoe) 1624812784
What\u2019s the alternative view? Racism doesn\u2019t exist?— Tony Young (@Tony Young) 1624596105
CRT is not taught anywhere in the country to k-12 students.— Tambra Stewart (@Tambra Stewart) 1624899066
She reads that script her mom wrote pretty well!— sarah h. flexghost (@sarah h. flexghost) 1624810539
Greene is no stranger to the criticism she receives for her backwards views. Just earlier this month, she claimed she doesn't believe in the theory of evolution.
Her regular target for harassment, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez knows exactly how to deal with an attention monger like Greene.
