WATCH: Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff Compares College Board Conferences to the Holocaust

Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff in contrast the “hate” at public faculty board conferences Wednesday to that which motivated the Holocaust, through which the Nazis exterminated six million Jews and hundreds of thousands of different folks.

Emhoff was talking on the South by Southwest Convention, a classy gathering of tech-savvy entrepreneurs and artists in Austin, Texas. He was interviewed by the Symone Sanders, the previous spokesperson for his spouse, Vice President Kamala Harris.

Amongst different matters, Emhoff mentioned the continuing problem of antisemitism.

In doing so, he recalled visiting Auschwitz — the focus camp the place the Nazis compelled inmates to carry out slave labor and the place 1.1 million folks have been murdered. Some have been subjected to horrific medical experiments.

He went on to say:

This hate is interconnected. You see it within the discourse within the nation proper now. You see it within the divide that we’ve got, within the, simply going to highschool [board] assembly[s] —  you see that hate that’s on the market, we’ve acquired to step up, and converse out, and we’ve acquired to name out the cowards on the market, folks — as my spouse would say, these “so-called leaders.”

Emhoff was probably referring to the outcry at public faculty board conferences across the nation in opposition to the indoctrination of youngsters with transgender ideology and different radical concepts, reminiscent of Crucial Race Principle. The latter teaches that the US is racist at its core; mother and father complain that it encourages racial hatred.

Dad and mom have additionally objected to instructing youngsters about sexuality and gender identification at an early age, as inspired by President Joe Biden’s administration.

Final 12 months, the Nationwide College Boards Affiliation admitted colluding with the White Home in writing a letter to Legal professional Basic Merrick Garland, asking him to research mother and father in school board conferences for home terrorism.

The letter, which urged Garland to make use of the Division of Justice and the FBI to research and to suppress constitutionally-protected free speech, precipitated a backlash.

Emhoff, nevertheless, appears to agree with it.

Emhoff’s youngsters attended personal faculty in a rich Los Angeles neighborhood.

Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Massive at Breitbart Information and the host of Breitbart Information Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He’s the writer of the brand new biography, Rhoda: ‘Comrade Kadalie, You Are Out of Order’. He’s additionally the writer of the current e-book, Neither Free nor Honest: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. He’s a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Comply with him on Twitter at @joelpollak.