Posted on 03/31/2022 9:09:55 AM PDT by nickcarraway
The Florida Legislature has voted across party lines to require school kids to sit through a lecture each year on what it’s calling “Victims of Communism Day.”
“I think everyone in this room understands that communism is an evil and insidious form of government, akin to fascism, akin to Nazism, and deserves no safe haven in the state of Florida,” Rep. Evan Jenne said during debate on the House floor in late February. He represents part of Broward County.
HB 395, sponsored by Rep. David Borrero and Rep. Alex Rizo, requires the Florida governor to proclaim Nov. 7 as “Victims of Communism Day.” Both Borrero and Rizo represent areas in South Florida.
Starting with the 2023-24 school year, public high school students taking U.S. government courses would receive at least 45 minutes of instruction on communist figureheads including Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, and Vladimir Lenin.
The legislation says that the day is supposed to honor the “100 million people who have fallen victim to communist regimes.” Students will learn “how victims suffered under these regimes through poverty, starvation, migration, systemic lethal violence, and suppression of speech.”
When Borrero presented the bill on the House floor, he sited a 2020 poll from the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation that noted growing favorability toward socialism and communism among younger voters, such as Millennials and Zoomers.
“That’s why this bill is needed, because it gives honor to over 100 million people who have died from these economic policies, and it also gives hope to this generation and the next generation that America will never be a communist country,” Borrero said at the time.
The Legislature unanimously approved the legislation, which requires Gov. Ron DeSantis’ signature to become law, although he has previously supported efforts to teach the “evils” of communism.
Efforts to discredit communist ideas and philosophies is a bipartisan rallying point for the Legislature in Florida, where immigrants who fled the Fidel Castro dictatorship and similar governments in places like Venezuela and Nicaragua form an important political constituency.
My my won’t the liberals be furious over this? Good!
A good start, but perhaps it should have been a “Victims of Leftism” lecture that included Nazi atrocities since fascists are politically leftist.
The Florida Legislature has voted across party lines to require school kids to sit through a lecture each year on what it’s calling “Victims of Communism Day.”
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The writer’s pro-communist bias is evident in the choice of words.
Teach this in other red states, not just Florida. And in time, who knows? Maybe spread to other states. That probably is just a dream, but you never know.
I have never liked Florida much, but...I would absolutely move there in a heartbeat if they ever passed this legislation!
Love it! Just love it!
This is another good strategic move.
First, pass an anti-grooming law and bait the left to defend child groomers.
Next, pass an anti-communist law and bait the left to defend communists.
Let the leftists deny that this is their constituency all they want, their actions will speak louder than their words.
Good God. She needs a tattoo on her chin saying “Keep Hands And Feet Clear”!!!!!!
heheheheeh, that graphic made me laugh!
“Ah ah ahhh! Too close!”
We had a team teaching class in Broward County HS mid sixties. Entire semester, civics class I think, re evils of communism.
Every day it seems DeSantis does something I like and sticks it to the libs.
He is going to be a great president one day!
Fortunately, my dad was a 30 year Navy vet, and I lived in environments where at the time, there weren’t even any closet Marxists skulking around. Was I indoctrinated? Sure, if teaching the truth is indoctrination, I will wear that mantle.
Now, we cannot get them to shut up and stay in the closet, and they make it all the way to the Oval Office.
| DeSantis | 2024 |
|---|---|
| MAKE | ORWELL |
| FICTION | AGAIN |
Shhh. Calma.
It was a semester long class called Americanism vs. Communism and was a graduation requirement. It was still being taught in 1975 when I took it in high school.
In the years between 1918 and 1940, Communists and Nazis both understood the other side was fertile ground for converts.
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