(Two Arizona Republicans whose households fled communist countries need colleges within the state to show in regards to the evils of the political philosophy.
State Rep. Quang Nguyen, R-Prescott, introduced Tuesday his plan to file laws he stated would strengthen civics instruction and civics literacy training for Arizona’s K-12 students.
Nguyen’s household fled communist Vietnam.
“That is very private to me, as somebody who has survived a communist conflict,” Nguyen stated. “I’ve misplaced very shut relations to the evil ideology of communism. I do know what it feels to lose a nation to communism and that’s why I are not looking for my fellow Arizonans to ever undergo what I’ve.
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“It’s as much as us to make sure that future generations have an trustworthy understanding of what communism really is and the horrors it has produced for mankind. In any other case, it’s more likely to be repeated. The victims and survivors of communism should have their voice heard.”
Home Majority Chief Ben Toma’s household fled communist-run Romania. Toma, a Peoria Republican, is co-sponsoring the laws with Nguyen.
“I consider in America and its cornerstone rules of liberty, freedom, and democracy,” he stated. “I additionally consider that we now have a solemn obligation to organize as we speak’s college students to be tomorrow’s leaders.”
Toma stated the laws strengthens a pupil’s basis in civic literacy and understanding of what makes America distinctive, and the way it stands in stark distinction to communism and totalitarianism.
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Nguyen’s invoice would require the state tutorial requirements in social research to be retooled to incorporate dialogue of “political ideologies that battle with the rules of freedom and democracy important to the founding rules of america.”
Related laws was debated because the earlier legislative session got here to an in depth in June however didn’t make it to Gov. Doug Ducey’s desk.
Rep. Daniel Hernandez, D-Tucson, stated throughout earlier debate white nationalism is extra harmful of an ideology than communism. Nguyen had a candid response.
“White nationalism didn’t drown 250,000 Vietnamese within the South China Sea,” he stated.
