Leftists are so desperate to keep control of school children that the president of the second-largest teachers union in the United States, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), is comparing parental rights advocates with segregationists. Randi Weingarten points to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for this revelation.

Weingarten jumped on this bandwagon upon talking to the SPLC. She repeated the SPLC talking points on a podcast with the Burnes Center for Social Change. The hateful leftists who make a career of smearing conservatives as Nazis and white supremacists made a connection between parents who demand a say in their children’s education and segregationists. SPLC claims the two groups use the same words. That’s right – the parental rights movement is just like those who opposed the end of racial segregation in Brown v Board of Education in 1954.

“Those same words that you heard in terms of wanting segregation post-Brown v. Board, those same words you hear today,” Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, said in a podcast interview published Tuesday.

“I was kind of gobsmacked when I was talking to Southern Poverty Law Center, and they showed me the same words, ‘choice,’ ‘parental rights,’ and an attempt to divide parents versus teachers,” Weingarten added. “At that point, it was white parents versus other parents, but it’s the same kind of words.”

I’d like to say I’m “kind of gobsmacked” about this level of absurdity coming from such a powerful Democrat but I am not. No conservative should be surprised about this level of discourse coming from the left. Slinging around accusations of Nazism is so normalized on the left that this is what happens. Weingarten brought former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, conservative commentator Chris Rufo, and Michael Farris, founder of the Home School Legal Defense Association into her conversation on the podcast. They are all painted as “extremists.” They want to end public education “as we know it.”

“A Rufo will say we need to create universal public school distrust to get to universal vouchers,” Weingarten said. “Others want it because they hate knowledge or they fear broad-based knowledge.”

“They want to have a basically, a Christian ideology—their particular Christian ideology—dominate the country, as opposed to a country that was born out of the free exercise of religion,” she added.

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— Tyler O'Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) September 13, 2023

Weingarten equates parental rights activism as a racial statement. Everything goes back to race on the left. Even for her, this is a stretch. Nonetheless, she persists. This woman and her fellow travelers in the teacher unions who insisted that schools remain closed for more than a year due to the pandemic, have ruined the lives of young people across the country. Many children will never catch up on subjects in which they fell behind.

Senator Tim Scott has had enough of this hideous rhetoric. The Republican presidential candidate is holding Weingarten accountable for both her words and actions. Tim Scott has real life experience that proves this is no longer the America of the 1950s. Scott says it is time to break the backs of teachers’ unions.

“There might not be anyone that’s done more damage recently than Randi Weingarten to the kids living in distressed communities, especially like the ones where I grew up,” Scott told Fox News Digital. “It’s so frustrating to hear these liberal lies, hearkening back to a day that no longer exists.”

“I’m so sick and tired of liberals – too many of them happen to be White – crying racism every single time they’re losing an argument,” Scott said. “I can’t think of anything more actually racist than trapping poor Black kids in the failing schools in these big blue cities dominated by a super-majority of radical progressives who are running the cities and destroying the schools.”

“They’re the ones, with their teachers unions, standing in the doorway of the schoolhouse, trapping poor kids in as if the house is on fire, but they won’t let a single soul out,” he went on. “It’s really frustrating, and it’s one of the reasons why I think we have no choice but to break the backs of these teachers’ unions. They’re the problem. They’re literally destroying the future of millions of kids.”

Tim Scott is right. The rise of the influence of teachers’ unions has been disastrous for American school children. The political clout they hold in Democrat politics is corrupt. The pandemic certainly shined a light on that. Parents discovered what their children were learning in schools. They rose up and the Biden administration has done all it can, along with teachers’ unions, to stop parental participation in public schools. It’s a movement that is not going to be silenced or stopped. Groups like Moms for Liberty are rapidly growing and that is why hatemongers like the SPLC put them on a list of groups akin to domestic terrorists. DOJ labeled parents as domestic terrorists for showing up at school board meetings and speaking. This was aided and abetted by the likes of Randi Weingarten.

There is evil in this world. Everyday parents who get involved in their children’s education are not domestic terrorists. It is their job, their responsibility.

Now, more than ever, we need school choice. Former President George W. Bush used to talk about the soft bigotry of low expectations. No one expects less of school children than leftist teachers’ unions. Competition for students would do a lot of good for public schools. Make them get back to basic education and stop the never ending social experiments that are destroying the lives of children. Parents are not willing to accept the government as a co-parent.

Destroy teachers’ unions and save the children. It all boils down to that.