I Grew Up With Soviet Communism; Now as a Trustee I See It Embedded in California’s Ethnic Studies – California Globe

I Grew Up With Soviet Communism; Now as a Trustee I See It Embedded in California’s Ethnic Studies – California Globe

As a school board member in the Ramona Unified School District in San Diego County, when I read the Santa Ana Liberated Ethnic Studies curriculum for the first time, it brought back childhood memories from growing up in the Soviet Union. The communist vocabulary that I remember from my time in the USSR included liberation, oppression, oppressor and oppressed, class struggle, solidarity, hegemony, Zionist, imperialism, colonialism, collective, as…