The right wing is now fearmongering about furries during school board meetings.
If you don't believe me, well why don't we go to this video of one Michigan mom,
who is terrified about the existence of litter boxes in the school bathrooms?
Let's watch.
>> I wanna talk to about the fact that and I know this is going on nationwide.
So it is not just for this board, but our community needs to understand,
that the agenda that is being pushed through our schools is just my opinion.
But somewhat nefarious when it comes to some of the activities.
So let's talk about furries.
[LAUGH] It was addressed by a child, a couple months ago,
that they are put in an environment where there are kids that
are identify as a furry, a cat or a dog, whatever.
And so yesterday, I heard that at least one of our schools in our town has in one
of the unisex bathrooms, a litter box, for the kids that identify as cats.
And I am really disturbed by that, and I will do some more investigation on that.
I know what's going on nationwide, I know it's part of the agenda that's being
pushed, I don't even wanna understand it.
>> Okay, >> [LAUGH]
>> We need to provide affordable
childcare, and we need to get mothers back to work.
As they sit there idle they don't have much to do,
they're getting trolled now, someone's trolling this mom.
And apparently this isn't the only case,
this is happening across the country where moms are genuinely under the impression,
that schools are putting litter boxes in the unisex bathroom.
So students who identify as cats can urinate,
does she stop to really think about this?
She knows it's happening, >> She knows
>> She knows.
>> And it's going nationwide.
>> [CROSSTALK] >> She's just trying
to inform everyone- >> And
it's just her opinion that it's a nefarious thing to talk about.
>> [LAUGH] Now it could be non nefarious.
Maybe there are kids who are cats, who need a litter box,
but it's her opinion that it's nefarious.
As I saw the clock ticking next door, I thought give her more time.
I can't wait to hear more theories.
So look, if you're gonna go on camera, and
you think it's going nationwide, would you wanna get one or
two piece of confirmation, before you go and say that publicly?
Especially on something so outrageous.
If someone told me, yeah, people are down cats, [LAUGH] and
then they need litter boxes in the schools.
And the administrators have given them litter boxes, so
they can be peacefully be cats or dogs.
I would say, that seems unlikely.
Do you have an associated press story on it?
You have a Reuters story?
Is there something else on it?
No, she just heard it from someone and she's, I'm running with it.
And by the way, I'm gonna later on that it might be nefarious.
Of course that's not true.
>> If you're so certain, go into the bathroom and
see if there's actually a litter box.
>> By the way, thank you Anna.
>> If someone called my mom up and was,
this little liberal school that you're sending your kids to
litter boxes in the bathrooms, you know what my mom would do?
First of all should be smart enough to not believe it.
But my mom would follow through on things should be, really?
She would go to the school, walk into the bathroom and be,
no litter box, end of story I'm gone.
She would definitely bring the rolling pin, don't get me wrong.
I had a strict mom and she came correct every PTA meeting,
every student teacher conference, whatever she was always there.
And she asked the questions, but the important thing is before she lost it, and
there were moments where my mom lost it over decisions made by the educators or
whatever.
She would do a thorough investigation before embarrassing herself.
Come on lady, I'm sure you're a nice woman and
I'm sure you're genuinely concerned about the safety and welfare of your children,
but just do a little bit of an investigation before you do this.
By the way you think she's bad,
the Michigan Republican Party Cochair Marshawn Maddock believed her and
posted on Facebook that they need to do something about this, that is insane.
I can't believe that they're encouraging students to be furries.
None of this is happening.
>> Well, I got really good news for them though.
They did do something about it.
There are no litter boxes left,
you can just go check the bathrooms in the schools.
The little box have all been taken away.
By the way, they would really believe that they're, we got them,
you see that we took action and it made a difference.
They took away all the little box.
They were never there, you schmucks.
They were never there.
>> The school superintendent was even forced to issue a statement in response to
this whole controversy.
Let me read you, Michael Cheryl's quote.
It is unconscionable that this afternoon, I am sending this communication.
However, our midland PS stakeholders may be confused about a false
message slash accusation that has resurfaced this week and
is gaining traction in the social media realm.
Let me be clear in this communication,
there is no truth whatsoever to this false statement/accusation.
There have never been litter boxes within MPS schools.
>> I mean, this is what America is devolved to,
there are actual Republican politicians,
not just rando is going to school board meetings.
Who are saying, I demand the litter boxes being removed and the kids stop being
cats because in their mind that's that's that that's what liberals want.
That's what we're doing every day.
We're all picking different animals.
>> We're not even done.
You guys might think, look you're being unfair.
Here's one mother who's a little panicky.
No, it's happening in other states as well.
Another concerned mom asked about this in a Minnesota school board meeting.
Another topic many parents would like addressed are furries.
Why are kids being allowed to dress up like animals in our schools?
This Minnesota mom said, they're being allowed to growl and
bark at their teachers.
They're allowed to wear leashes and collars and tails and
they just bark, but God forbid a kid wears a Trump hat to school.
They're told to take that off immediately.
>> [LAUGH] Those are not kids.
And by the way, my God, they're gonna start attacking mascots.
They're gonna go to football games and we're, but we found them, the furries.
Okay, no that's your school mascot don't hurt them.
Okay, no, we have good evidence.
Some of the gay community say that they are bears.
>> Got him.
>> There's more, Michelle Evans who's running for
state representative in the Texas House district 136.
Also joined in on this manufactured culture war cafeteria tables are being
lowered in certain round rock ISD middle and high schools to
allow furries to more easily eat without utensils or their hands.
I eat like a dog eats from bowl.
Thank you for explaining that.
We couldn't really suss out what was going on here.
>> The school had to put out a statement saying, our tables can't even be lowered.
[LAUGH] It's not physically possible.
That's not the type of tables that we have.
Right wing in this country has just flat out lost their minds.
>> They have completely lost their minds.
By the way, furry community, perfectly lovely community.
This is not to hate on them in any way shape or form.
Schools are not encouraging kids to be furries, this is 100% made up.
And even Pennsylvania parent faced harassment from several
school board members because they thought his kid was a furry.
No, I'm not kidding, people are being harassed.
They're yelling at him about his kid being a furry.
Amelia Mcmillan told The Daily Beast,
the group cited an email someone sent to the board about furries.
I heard him say leave my kid out of this.
Two administrators from the school broke up this interaction and
shuffled the four aggressors out of the building and
then asked the father if he was all right.
He told everyone standing there myself included
that they were calling his child a furry and he asked them to stop.
>> Look, they've lost their minds.
There's reports of people dressing up like animals and other creatures
seems to be happening near the end of October and we've got confirmed reports.
>> [LAUGH] And then they go around demanding candy and treats.
>> Yeah, and they've lowered all the pumpkins and even carved them out.
Okay, there seems to be this nefarious one.
It's my opinion that it's nefarious,
that it's also real because they actually do attack Halloween.
Some of the preachers do, right?
And they're, it's the devil's work etc.
Look as we mentioned for adults, there's nothing wrong with being a furry at all.
But again, we have to explain simple concepts to the right way.
And they're, it's now they're doing things that I don't agree with and I wouldn't do.
Yeah, that's a thing called freedom,
the thing that you pretend to care a lot about.
You might wanna let adults do whatever the hell they want,
as long as they're not hurting anyone else, I saw a post on Facebook.
>> And by the way, just be a parent, right?
So they're so afraid of, what are other students doing, which, okay,
I get it, It's a legitimate concern.
I remember students in my high school would show up to school wearing their
pajamas literally.
If I put pajamas on, my mom would slap me across the face and be, get dressed,
you're not going to school like that, right?
Be a parent, the world isn't as scary as you think it is.
Just do your job as a parent, everything's gonna be alright.
My mom wouldn't literally slap me across.
[LAUGH] Don't do that part.
[LAUGH] Yeah, what's the right word?
Just trying to give you a visual of how strict my mom was.
She wouldn't let me leave the house in my pajama pants.
>> I just literally snorted there.
[LAUGH] >> You do, right,
I didn't want to draw attention to it, but you did.
[LAUGH] Look, I'm just trying to empathize with the furry community,
that's all, okay.
We're gonna lower this table after the break.
>> [LAUGH]