The Virginia Education Association whipped the commonwealth’s Senate Democrats into opposing a Victims of Communism commemoration bill due to its “anti-Asian” sentiments, demonstrating the union’s historical ignorance, woke ideology, and educational incompetence.
In recent weeks, Democrats in the Virginia Senate and the commonwealth’s teachers union have shown they see history as a tool to promote racial ideology, not as a means to understand the past. A few days after defeating an Indian American nominee based on the ludicrous claim that she associates with white supremacists, Democrats in a Senate committee managed to offend Asian Americans and victims of communism. The incident provides additional proof of the problems plaguing the commonwealth’s school system.
The latest controversy occurred when Democrats on a Senate committee voted along party lines to keep a House-passed measure locked in the committee. The bill would have required the governor to issue a proclamation declaring every Nov. 7 as Victims of Communism Day, and it would have instructed public K-12 schools to observe the day by commemorating and honoring those who lost their lives under communist regimes.
Lawmakers showed little sympathy for the approximately 100 million people killed by communist states. If that were not bad enough, the worst insult came via the lawmakers’ stated reason for opposing action on this seemingly unobjectionable measure.
The Virginia Education Association, which represents public school teachers, said it opposed the measure because it was “concerned that this bill would subject Asian American students to anti-Asian sentiments,” citing the fact that eastern
