(Texas) House Democrat urges fellow Democrats to support teaching students about the evils of communism

"......The bill amends state education code to require public schools to adopt social studies curriculum for grades 4-12 to develop their understanding of communist regimes and ideologies including the history of and tactics used by communist movements in the United States; historical events and atrocities attributable to communist regimes, including the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward; the Holodomor; Soviet-era Great Terror; Cambodian genocide, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge; the origins and policies of the Communist Party of Cuba; Latin American communist guerrilla movements; and oppression and suffering of those living under communist regimes, including mass murder, violent land seizures, show trials, concentration camps, forced labor, poverty, and general economic deterioration, among other examples.

It also requires comparative lessons contrasting communist ideology to the American principles of individual rights, merit-based advancement, and free enterprise. Curriculum would also include examples of modern communist threats to the U.S.; common economic, industrial, and political events that historically preceded communist revolutions; communist ideologies and methods used to spread it like propaganda, public shaming tactics, censorship and forced conformity. The curriculum would also include first-person accounts of survivors of communist regimes, according to the bill language......"

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