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Virginia moves to forbid schools from teaching that Jan. 6 was peaceful (www.washingtonpost.com)
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RICHMOND — Virginia lawmakers have passed a bill that prohibits schools from teaching that the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection was a peaceful demonstration or that there was massive fraud in the 2020 presidential election, the first Democratic state to try to shape how such events are taught.

“The White House webpage says January 6 was a peaceful protest, and people who instigated it were the police and National Guard,” said Del. Dan Helmer (D-Fairfax), the sponsor of the bill, which passed the state Senate this week and the House of Delegates last month. “This is a preventative measure against a massive disinformation campaign on the part of the White House.”

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[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 21 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Do they not know that very widespread video evidence exists to the contrary?

[–] CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago

Read the headline again, they are prohibiting teaching the false narrative that Jan 6th was peaceful

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Who is "they" in your question?

[–] ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I have noticed a shocking lack of reading comprehension on Lemmy recently. Between that and the rabid hatred for all Americans I'm really starting to consider dropping the platform.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

TBF, we Americans kinda brought this upon ourselves.

But the reading comprehension issue is a fuckin' doozie.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can at least move over to Piefed, I heard it's better? Kinda stuck with everyone still on federated platforms, though, and I can assure you reading comprehension is worse on the mainstream apps... and only groups without America hate right now are pretty creepy right wing outlets lol

[–] atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

piefed has the same people

[–] Harvey656@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Glad I'm not the only one who misreads this is haha. But its saying the opposite in this case.

[–] presoak@lazysoci.al 3 points 2 days ago

To be fair, they didn't set the building on fire or shoot anybody, which is what is generally expected from insurrections. It was more like black friday at Walmart.