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First, communism is an economic system. People tend to confuse it with a broader social system, as the efforts to make communism work have been imposed upon chaotic, backward countries where a conventional democracy wouldn't work. "Communism" has been confused with the rather harsh political regimes which tried to institute the economic system. But "communism" is an economic, not social, system. Don't let 'em tell you anything else.

If "capitalism" is a superior economic system it would have nothing to fear from being taught by a person with a different persuasion. In reality, there is a place for communism. What system do people think would be used on multi-generational interstellar flights? Free enterprise? Doubt it. Jesus lived a communal existence.

Many of us can see that racism isn't an economic system, but a prejudice, a bias which absolutely unfair and criminal to practice. Actually, for most of the existence of this country history has been taught by subtle white supremacists. The contribution races other than European Caucasians has been minimized.

For those of you who don't know, creationism is a religious doctrine with only the most twisted, spurious scientific evidence. Creationism can be taught in religion classes, but doesn't have enough of a factual basis to be taught as biology. Hope this helps. Arf

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