BOE - who are people voting for?

[Anonymous]

As soon as the words tumbled out of her mouth, conservative author Bethany Mandel was visibly overcome with the terrifying realization that she was about to become a viral sensation and a target of scathing anti-racist critique.

When asked by political commentator Briahna Joy Gray, on The Hill’s online program “Rising,” how she defines “woke” in a new book, Mandel answered as smoothly as skipping vinyl:

So, I mean, woke is–w–sort of–the idea that–um. I mean, woke is something that’s very hard to define, and we’ve spent an entire chapter defining it. It is sort of the understanding that we need to totally reimagine and reduce society in order to create hierarchies of oppression. Um, sorry, I — it’s hard to explain in a 15-second sound bite.

Mandel is either incorrect or insincere, because “woke” isn’t hard to define. It’s just advantageous for conservatives to continue to occupy the term like stolen land if they keep the definition as broad as possible.

Part of the white supremacist myth is revealed in what Mandel did manage to say in her bumbling definition: that marginalized people allegedly aim to “create hierarchies of oppression” through “woke ideology” (as conservatives love to call it).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where exactly does she find the time to home school/stay at home parent six kids, ages approximately nine to newborn, while writing — or “writing” — books, appearing on Fox, getting into Twitter fights, etc. etc. etc?

How will she find time for the BOE?
She claims she has no help.

Oh one of those who claim "has no help."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Mui & Zimmerman, then?

Stewart & Mandel (oh my)

Montoya and ?

Mandel is Moms4Liberty no one should vote for that crap
She is also in the middle of a lawsuit funded by Stephen Miller & America First legal. She's a racist and a liar she does not belong on the BOE>

And if folks are trying to oust an incumbent, that leaves us with only Stewart.

Anyone know why Laura Stewart backed out of attending the candidate forum tonight at the last minute? Both of her opponents will be there so it would have been nice to see the 3 of them together answering questions.

Giving her the benefit of the doubt, this was originally scheduled for last week, so maybe the schedule change made it impossible for her to attend. Less charitably, she’s on the Apple Ballot and has raised more money than either of the opponents so she might think she has this locked up and doesn’t need to deal with voters anymore.

Tonight is about Bethany Mandel and Dias spewing more lies.

And you use this forum for your lies.

No I have facts.

Not like Mandel and Diaz were successful in scrubbing their social media.

Mandel in particular revels in her hatred of others and has literally posted herself being insane.

And if one looks public record they can see Mandel is funded by America First Legal (Stephen Millers Racist crap and Moms4Liberty).

Mandel's and Diaz's on words online are horrific.

And why is Mandel's running as a Dem LOL we all know she is a self professed RW Religious Christian Nationalist supporter.

You are inadvertently discrediting yourself and helping the candidates with your hyperbole and emotional and unintelligent verbiage.

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Mandel/Diaz hater poster, please just let the facts speak for themselves. You're coming off as a loon. And I say this as someone who completely agrees with your points about these candidates. They are extremists and not at all what I or my local community members want. But the more you rant and rave about this, the more people are going to back away from the discussion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As soon as the words tumbled out of her mouth, conservative author Bethany Mandel was visibly overcome with the terrifying realization that she was about to become a viral sensation and a target of scathing anti-racist critique.

When asked by political commentator Briahna Joy Gray, on The Hill’s online program “Rising,” how she defines “woke” in a new book, Mandel answered as smoothly as skipping vinyl:

So, I mean, woke is–w–sort of–the idea that–um. I mean, woke is something that’s very hard to define, and we’ve spent an entire chapter defining it. It is sort of the understanding that we need to totally reimagine and reduce society in order to create hierarchies of oppression. Um, sorry, I — it’s hard to explain in a 15-second sound bite.

Mandel is either incorrect or insincere, because “woke” isn’t hard to define. It’s just advantageous for conservatives to continue to occupy the term like stolen land if they keep the definition as broad as possible.

Part of the white supremacist myth is revealed in what Mandel did manage to say in her bumbling definition: that marginalized people allegedly aim to “create hierarchies of oppression” through “woke ideology” (as conservatives love to call it).

And?

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Anonymous wrote:Mui & Zimmerman, then?

Stewart & Mandel (oh my)

Montoya and ?

Mandel is Moms4Liberty no one should vote for that crap
She is also in the middle of a lawsuit funded by Stephen Miller & America First legal. She's a racist and a liar she does not belong on the BOE>

And if folks are trying to oust an incumbent, that leaves us with only Stewart.

Anyone know why Laura Stewart backed out of attending the candidate forum tonight at the last minute? Both of her opponents will be there so it would have been nice to see the 3 of them together answering questions.

Giving her the benefit of the doubt, this was originally scheduled for last week, so maybe the schedule change made it impossible for her to attend. Less charitably, she’s on the Apple Ballot and has raised more money than either of the opponents so she might think she has this locked up and doesn’t need to deal with voters anymore.

Tonight is about Bethany Mandel and Dias spewing more lies.

And you use this forum for your lies.

No I have facts.

Not like Mandel and Diaz were successful in scrubbing their social media.

Mandel in particular revels in her hatred of others and has literally posted herself being insane.

And if one looks public record they can see Mandel is funded by America First Legal (Stephen Millers Racist crap and Moms4Liberty).

Mandel's and Diaz's on words online are horrific.

And why is Mandel's running as a Dem LOL we all know she is a self professed RW Religious Christian Nationalist supporter.

You are inadvertently discrediting yourself and helping the candidates with your hyperbole and emotional and unintelligent verbiage.

+1
Mandel/Diaz hater poster, please just let the facts speak for themselves. You're coming off as a loon. And I say this as someone who completely agrees with your points about these candidates. They are extremists and not at all what I or my local community members want. But the more you rant and rave about this, the more people are going to back away from the discussion.

+2. It’s making mandel and Diaz look more appealing because it seems the crazies don’t like them.

[Anonymous]

Please start another thread specifically for Mandal and Diaz, already. We need to hear about the rest of the candidates too. Praying that these two and any incumbents are not the ones moving on to the general election. Vote. May 14.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please start another thread specifically for Mandal and Diaz, already. We need to hear about the rest of the candidates too. Praying that these two and any incumbents are not the ones moving on to the general election. Vote. May 14.

Why are you saying vote? You don’t think we don’t know that there is an election to vote?

[Anonymous]

Vote.

[Anonymous]

Vote May 14.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tell us what you know about the 5 running in District 2:

Diaz
Mui
Thioye
Zimmerman

Smondrowski an incumbent

Who is Thioye? Platform?

[Anonymous]

Board of Education
6 candidates AT LARGE

Who is
Long?

Platform?

[Anonymous]

We vote for three on May 14.

At Large: Harris, Hidayat, Kim, Long, Mofor, Montoya

District 2: Diaz, Mui, Smondrowski, Thioye, Zimmerman

District 4: Evans, Mandel, Stewart

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Vote.

There isn’t an election.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Tell us what you know about the 5 running in District 2:

Diaz
Mui
Thioye
Zimmerman

Smondrowski an incumbent

Who is Thioye? Platform?

Thioye is a mom of 6 who kind of talked around the question of whether her kids attend MCPS. She's strongly pro opt out, and didn't seem super read in on policy issues outside of not wanting her kids to read about gay people.

[Anonymous]

There are people out there who would support that. Not enough though, in MoCo.