"You know, if one looks at the anti-immigration movement today, it is astounding the things that are said by mainstream people. You know, we have national politicians right now walking around this country talking about how illegal aliens are, quote 'coming here to kill me, and kill you, and kill our families,'" the SPLC official claimed.
The podcast also featured authoritarian leftists like Jennifer Lima, a school board member who said that students who
"misgendered" people committed an
"act of violence" that should be
"dealt with accordingly." Hobbs said she wanted to
"inspire people to be as courageous as you are."
Yet another podcast guest was former Congressman David Cicilline, who wrote that the
"key threat to our democracy" is the GOP, which he described as
"a Trumpist authoritarian cult." On the podcast, Cicilline said that Congress needed to make laws to make social media companies liable for
"dangerous" content like
"misinformation" from
"Trump," MRC found. As a congressman, Cicilline advocated for DHS funding for the group.
Using the DHS money as seed money to leverage private donations, the group is now taking the program national, and is hosting a
"Courageous Conversation" in Charlottesville, Virginia on Wednesday.
An activist group closely linked to the University of Rhode Island's Media Education Lab called Media Literacy Now is intent on making these
"media literacy" trainings mandatory for all American children, but only when media literacy is used to promote liberal views. It opposed a Texas bill that instituted media literacy, but which included the 1619 Project as an example of misinformation.
The head of the Rhode Island Media Lab, Hobbs, is also an advisory board member of MLN. She once convinced the National Council for Teachers of English to call for focusing on turning children into
"change agents" through critical race theory, then claimed that a veteran Washington Post reporter needed to be subjected to her
"media training" when he criticized it.
Hobbs did not return a request for comment on her work, nor did DHS.
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