Ethics

The Commies are Coming, the Commies are Coming

By Ed Brayton

You'd think that two decades after the Soviet Union fell, red baiting would be a dead meme in our society. Think again. You have to read this breathlessly hyperbolic screed at the Worldnutdaily about a bill in the California legislature. It just screams bloody murder that the legislature of California wants to teach communism to school kids.

A new plan by a California lawmaker would allow schools to be used to promote the overthrow of the U.S. government, and let teachers in public district classrooms "inculcate in the mind of any pupil a preference for communism," according to a traditional values advocacy organization...

"This bill would actually allow the promotion of communism in public schools," CRI said.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on March 06, 2008 (boomark / email).