Thread by @Dreamweasel

If you are somehow convinced that threatening individual school board members is an appropriate means to address your grievances, might I suggest that your perspective has been badly warped by demagoguery and you are becoming a menace to your community

https://twitter.com/ronfilipkowski/status/1448056966119632898

And no, this is not the same thing as following an unreachable Senator into the bathroom & demanding answers. That wasn’t great either, but the power imbalance was not comparable, nor was the implied threat of violence.

I can’t imagine many School Board members signed up for their jobs expecting that they’d regularly have to face down Tucker Carlson’s MAGA Patrol who show up at meetings to call them tyrants for enforcing CDC safety mandates and/or teaching their children about race in America

An entire political movement has emerged from the ashes of the Republican Party in which democratic rule is rejected in favor of threats, harassment, & open sedition. The anti-maskers & the anti-vaxxers & the anti-CRT squad & the “Stop the Steal” movement are all the same people.

Storming the Capitol Building & threatening our Senators turned out to be a less-than-fully-effective means to overturn the last Presidential election, but these people seem more than willing to give the same strategy a try at the state & local level