Lois Kaneshiki Is A Right-Wing Political Operative Who Wants Pennsylvania Conservatives To ‘Take Back Our Schools’

Over at the Bucks County Beacon, I dug a bit into the career of conservative education activist Lois Kaneshiki. It’s a long career, which eventually brings her to the kind of work shown in a video of one of her presentations.

Clearly she was ripe for Moms For Liberty, and in June of 2022, she signed on as the Pennsylvania State Director, a job she only held until February of this year. It was in that capacity that she was speaking to the Blair County Tea Party, explaining to them that part of the problem is that “education is more about shaping attitudes, values and beliefs than about academic excellence.”

In the video, she also warns about the hypersexualization of children, which, she explains goes back to Alfred Kinsey, who then influenced the UN to spread this evil business. She also explains that she has been listening for two years to James Lindsay.

James Lindsay is an influential voice in the anti-wokeness work and CRT panic. He has pushed the LGBTQ grooming conspiracy, the notion that progressives are trying to groom children to become LGBTQ, so that they’ll be more easy to molest. He has warned that CRT will lead to Black-on-white genocide. And he’s big on the theory that cultural Marxists are infiltrating our institutions in order to destroy Western Civilization. 

This is the guy that Kaneshiki thinks explains everything. Schools, she argues in her talk, are out to “destabilize” children and get them to trust schools as a way of taking them away from their parents, another step on the road to installing Marxism. “In order to install Marxism,” she says, “You need to take away God—which is done—and you need to break up families,” because then everyone will depend on the state. Data mining, she warns, is about figuring out how best to get the child onto the woke agenda, so they can be activists for the woke agenda. Teachers and administrators are already indoctrinated. 

Apparently, it will be just like Mao’s indoctrination centers. 

“Everyone is behind it except the people,” she says, accidentally indicating who she thinks are people, and who are not. “The entire education establishment is behind this. The federal government is pushing it. The military is behind it. The legal establishment is behind it.”

She’s upset. 

“You can’t give them an inch. Give them an inch and they will take your arm off.” She charges, “Everything America stands for is the enemy.” And she imagines a lot of things. Noting that “America the Beautiful” makes her tear up, she says, “You couldn’t—you wouldn’t find anybody singing that in public school today. The teachers would probably gag if they had to sing that song.”

You get the gist. She has notes, but she’s upset, and much of the hour is angry digression and rant about a version of reality that you might not recognize, but which Lois Kaneshiki and her audience see clearly and fear greatly.

There’s so much more. You can read the whole piece here.