The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Friday calling for the establishment of a curriculum to help educators, schools, and parents across the country teach about the historical evils of communism.
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The stated goal of the bill, put forward by Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.), is to help educate the public on the 100,000,000 deaths caused by communist regimes worldwide, the dangers inherent in the communist ideology, and the plight of the 1.5 billion people still suffering under communist regimes.
“America’s youth has been brainwashed by media and academia for the past 30 years to believe that communism is good. What a travesty, what a horror,” said Rep. Elvira Salazar, speaking on the House floor.
“More than one third of millenials approve of communism because they do not know what they’re talking about, or what this is all about. They don’t know that communism has claimed over 100 million lives all over the world, making it the deadliest ideology known to mankind,” she added.
Salazar is the daughter of Cuban exiles who fled the country to escape its oppressive communist regime.
The bill instructs the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, an anti-communist non-profit established by a 1993 act of Congress, to develop the curriculum.
The curriculum will compare communism and totalitarianism and explain how they contradict the principles of American freedom, including past and present communist regimes.
The bill specifically requests that educational material include information about the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) ongoing genocide against the Uyghur people in its Xinjiang region.
It will also include details the CCP’s crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong and its aggression towards Taiwan.
The curriculum will include “Portraits in Patriotism,” a collection of testimonies from survivors of communism who will compare their experiences under communist oppression to their lives under American democracy.
The bill passed with strong bipartisan support, with a final tally of 327-62, and 43 representatives who did not vote.
28 Republicans and 34 Democrats opposed the bill.
Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) abstained from the vote, while Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) voted in support of the bill.
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I’m old enough to remember a grammar school teacher telling us how evil communism was. What she described as typical in the then USSR sure resembles what America is like now.
Students should also be required to read 1984 because it has been going on since Obama.The Biden clown show used it as a training manual.