Alan MacLeod on the “Crucial Communism Teaching Act,” which is now being read in the U.S. Senate, where it is all but certain to pass.
tldr:
The imminent passing of the Crucial Communism Teaching Act harkens back to earlier anti-communist periods in American history, namely the Red Scare of the 1910s and the McCarthyist era of the 1940s and 1950s.
During those times, organized labor movements were ruthlessly attacked, workers from all professions, including professors, government officials, and teachers, were fired en masse, and some of America’s brightest minds had their careers derailed due to their political leanings.
The curriculum:
Pol-pots killings
The famines in the ussr
Nazi Germany death camps and antisemitism, but only referring to them as socialist because it’s in the name…
There was a “push” to “balance” this with the teaching of the dangers of fascism too, but the response was “lmfao no, that’s what we’re aiming to be.” so it failed to get added…
