I grew up in California in a big suburb and then a big city. Communism wasn’t even mentioned and I was a high-falutin smart boy who took AP US History and US Government Honors

Feel like these dummies are shooting themselves in the foot with the Barbara Streisand Effect.

“Never interrupt your enemies when they are making mistakes.”

In my country the school’s history book cites Solzhenitsyn’s estimate of 66 million dead in the gulag. We also had to learn by heart the theories of Arendt and Orwell.

All the books that we were required to read said that “Revolution bad, reform good” or “The world is literally worse after the revolution”, it’s a joke

All American students are taught this anyway and have been for the past 80 years

You know what? I’m gonna communism even harder

They’re getting desperate. It was a lot better when “communism sucks” was just something that permeated through cultural osmosis. But now, you’re going to get contrarian kids who become communists just to stick it to their teachers. Because there’s nothing teens respect more than their high school teachers.

public education in the capitalist west has never been anything else other than a means of indoctrination. that they feel the need to pass something like this now just means that they feel they are losing control over the narrative.

Lot of dems voted yea on it. I guess this is what obama meant by working with repubs and eschewing identity politics. Does he and his fellow dems know a decent amount of repubs call em communist or such all the ti… Oh fuck it why do I ask questions like I don’t already know these are irredeemable pieces of shit

this is inaccurate, it simply passed the US house. it now goes to the senate, then the president

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/5349/text/eh

This bill sucks but it’s not correct to say “all students must be taught communism is evil”. The federal government can’t mandate that anything is taught or not taught, that’s 100% at the state and local level. For better or worse that’s how education works in the US. If they really want something the feds could threat to withhold funding unless X is taught but that is not in this bill. This bill directs that materials be made available (made by the Victims of Communism Memorial Fund) that talk about “the evil of communism” but nothing on the school level is mandated.

Of course it’s a bad bill but we also shouldn’t exaggerate what’s in it.

wow kinda slick that this is all inline to peertube. is there a way to prevent leaking IPs in this embed?

but I am pretty sure they are already taught that

Kids don’t learn anything in American schools anyway. Most are just a place to drop your kids off while parents go to work.

Healthcare pls

Communism is evil

I’m teaching my kid about communism at home anyway. You know, like how religion should be taught? Oh, I guess the government didn’t get thet memo.

118th CONGRESS

2d Session

H. R. 5349

AN ACT To develop and disseminate a civic education curriculum and oral history resources regarding certain political ideologies, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. Short title.

This Act may be cited as the “Crucial Communism Teaching Act”.

SEC. 2. Purposes.

The purposes of this Act are the following:

(1) To help families, civic institutions, local communities, local educational agencies, high schools, and State educational agencies to prepare high school students to be civically responsible and knowledgeable adults.

(2) To ensure that high school students in the United States—

(A) learn that communism has led to the deaths of over 100,000,000 victims worldwide;

(B) understand the dangers of communism and similar political ideologies; and

© understand that 1,500,000,000 people still suffer under communism.

SEC. 3. Development and dissemination of civic education curriculum and oral history resources.

The independent entity created under section 905(b)(1)(B) of the FRIENDSHIP Act (40 U.S.C. 8903 note; 107 Stat. 2331 note), also known as the “Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation”, shall—

(1) develop a civic education curriculum for high school students that—

(A) includes a comparative discussion of certain political ideologies, including communism and totalitarianism, that conflict with the principles of freedom and democracy that are essential to the founding of the United States;

(B) is updated periodically to ensure the curriculum includes both past and present communist and totalitarian regimes, with a focus on—

(i) ongoing human rights abuses by such regimes, such as the treatment of Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) by the People’s Republic of China; and

(ii) aggression by such regimes against democratic nations and democracy, such as actions taken by the People’s Republic of China to deter pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong and the increasingly aggressive posture by the People’s Republic of China toward Taiwan, a democratic friend of the United States.

© is accurate, relevant, and accessible, so as to promote the understanding of such political ideologies; and

(D) is compatible with a variety of courses, including social studies, government, history, and economics classes;

(2) develop oral history resources that may be used alongside the curriculum described in paragraph (1) and that include personal stories, titled “Portraits in Patriotism”, from diverse individuals who—

(A) demonstrate civic-minded qualities;

(B) are victims of the political ideologies described in paragraph (1)(A); and

© are able to compare the political ideologies described in paragraph (1)(A) with the political ideology of the United States; and

(3) engage with State and local educational leaders to assist high schools in using the curriculum described in paragraph (1) and the resources described in paragraph (2).

SEC. 4. Definitions.

The terms in section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801) shall apply to this Act.

Passed the House of Representatives December 6, 2024.