Posted on 02/09/2023 12:24:49 AM PST by Olog-hai
A woman who championed “traditional American values” was booted from the Virginia Board of Education one week after sparring with another board member over whether public schools should present socialism as “incompatible with democracy.”
“I thought people celebrated diversity. Whether it’s diversity of thought, diversity of viewpoint or diversity of any of the many characteristics?” Suparna Dutta, who immigrated to the United States from India, told Fox News ahead of the vote. “I’m flummoxed.”
Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin appointed Dutta to the Virginia Board of Education in July. Dutta was set to be confirmed by the Senate of Virginia Tuesday night along with a host of other appointees to various government positions.
But Virginia state Sen. Ghazala Hashmi introduced a last-minute amendment removing Dutta from the nominations. The amendment passed on a party-line vote, according to a progressive group that tracks the state’s General Assembly. […]
Dutta’s ousting follows a contentious exchange last week during a board meeting reviewing proposed changes to history and social science standards in Virginia public schools. Two of the foundational principles outlined in the learning standards are that the “Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are remarkable documents” and that socialism and communism are “incompatible with democracy and individual freedoms.”
Board member Anne Holton — who is married to Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine — said she was “uncomfortable” with that language. “You cannot reference the Declaration of Independence and Constitution as remarkable documents without also acknowledging that they contain fundamental flaws of enshrining slavery and limiting the protections that they provided for only to white, propertied men,” she said. …
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Sounds like a lot of socialist board members need to be fired.
This is where America is being destroyed. The schools are teaching lies and propaganda to undermine the foundations of the nation.
Under what authority was she booted?
Marxism is deep in Virginia’s progressive educational system, esp. among the younger teachers. We know from experience.
This thought process seems to have found a home in many states. It is destroying us from within.
The flip side of Mcarthyism.
“The choice is between normal or crazy.”
Crazy is winning more frequently these days.
The Virginia Senate is Rat controlled. A liberty loving person to a Rat is like sunlight to a vampire .
There are few ideas in human history that are dumber and more destructive than the notion that knowledge can be politicized.
The Democrat party stands for Socialism, Sodomy, Satanism and baby killing yet Republicans still manage to lose elections. Or do they?
I can’t stand to read this Virginia idiocy. Carry me back to the old Virginny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyhQYOxTHaw
The problem in VA is the DC suburbs full of overpaid leftist federal employees and Richmond. The rest of the state is deep Red.
So they boot a woman of color off the board, hmmmm.
Where’s Sandy Cortez and the rest of the squad crying and frantically waving their arms?
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Declaration of Independence and Constitution...acknowledging that they contain fundamental flaws of enshrining slavery and limiting the protections that they provided for only to white, propertied men...
They do none of that...speaking of ignorant...
If I were Youngkin, I’d appoint her again.
In board meetings BEFORE the confirmation and provocative stuff is brought up? Sounds like a set up.
Watch the piece… she was a temporary appointment, pending a vote. She was booted for anti socialists views.
Holton conceded that communism is not compatible with democracy, but said "plenty of governments" call themselves socialist democratic governments.
"So is socialism compatible with democracy?" Holton asked. "That would be a great debate to have in a 12th grade government civics class."
What an idiot. I actually pity Tim Kaine.
Specifically where does it ‘enshrine slavery’ and ‘protect white people’?
We need to stop accepting these peoples’ bullsh*t statements and start forcing them to point out exactly where it says any of that.
McCarthy was right.
Using McCarthyism as a pejorative just shows you need some remedial history.
Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies
https://www.amazon.com/Blacklisted-History-Senator-McCarthy-Americas/dp/1400081068
This is just a proto-Stalinist purge of political enemies.
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