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Angry parents confronted a Virginia school board member who compared Turning Point USA—a conservative group founded by the late Charlie Kirk to engage young people—to the Ku Klux Klan in a video from an October 9 public meeting that just surfaced. ...

The school board member who made the ugly comparison, Allison Vick Spillman, blasted Albemarle County Public Schools in Virginia for daring to stay open-minded and allowing the TPUSA chapter at Western Albemarle High School to host a speaker discussing sex changes during a lunchtime meeting, according to a post she published on Facebook. Spillman raged over the school’s decision, saying she was “beyond livid” because she’s the “proud parent of a trans student.”
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Spillman opened the school board meeting with a string of remarks, claiming people “harassed” her before parents lit into her during the public comment portion.

... “Last week I made a Facebook post on my personal and private account. I expressed my concerns about a speaker invited to Western Albemarle High School and within hours, someone screenshot my post and shared it with media outlets and political organizations. What followed was a coordinated campaign of harassment and intimidation, and it was terrifying.”

Spillman then attempted to walk back her vile comparison, saying, “I did not intend to equate the WAS TPUSA member students with the KKK and I realize that that is how it was interpreted by many.” ...
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Kelly Coffin, the mother of a founding member of the TPUSA group, also addressed the board. “Last spring, I volunteered at a Turning Point meeting where guest speaker Isabelle Brown spoke to over 120 students on the sensitive topic of abortion. She was knowledgeable, engaging, and connected well with the students. I watched Western Albemarle students engage in civil discourse with the speaker and one another,” she recounted. ..."

“In stark contrast, a school board member has shown she believes free speech is for some, not for all, elevating the rights of certain students over others. Recently, this school board member likened my son, Turning Point members, and a scheduled guest speaker to the Ku Klux Klan,” Coffin added.

Michelle Karpovich, the TPUSA chapter’s faculty adviser, also confronted Spillman, but a crew of raucous left-wing protesters interrupted her—typical behavior from the side that insists only their views deserve oxygen. The disruption forced a recess, but Karpovich later finished her remarks.

“Equating a speaker who presents a widely held biology-based perspective on gender with a historically violent hate group recklessly misuses language,” Karpovich explained. “It undermines the values of respect, inclusivity, and open dialogue our schools must uphold. Beyond the hurtful nature of Miss Spillman’s words, her post shows contempt and prejudice toward constituents who hold differing views.”

traveler50 (18 posts)

Yesterday...

At the Dr.’s office a man was wearing a sweatshirt that said “Dead pedophiles don’t reoffend.”

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220819249

Missionaries in Congo denounced a “shameful silence” of the international community as 20 people were killed in a terrorist attack Nov. 14 at the North Kivu village of Byambwe, in Congo, according to Vatican News.

Pope Leo XIV offered special prayers for the Christian community in North Kivu, where members of the Allied Democratic Forces, a group loyal to Islamic State, attacked a clinic run by the Presentation Sisters, killing 15 people before stealing medications and burning the clinic down.

They went to nearby homes as well, killing another five people, Vatican News reported.

“Let us pray that all violence may cease and that believers may work together for the common good,” the pope said during the Angelus prayer on Nov. 16.

After the massacre of patients, the ADF set the hospital ablaze, killing several women in the maternity ward.