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BumRushDaShow

(168,522 posts)
Fri Mar 6, 2026, 04:51 PM 12 hrs ago

Virginia passes legislation prohibiting schools from teaching falsehoods about Jan. 6 riot

Source: CBS News

Updated on: March 6, 2026 / 3:09 PM EST


Virginia's legislature has passed a bill prohibiting schools from teaching what it considers to be falsehoods about the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot, including portraying it "as peaceful protest."

The General Assembly approved the measure Thursday, as a first-of-its-kind legislation to combat false statements by supporters of President Trump. The bill says that school instruction must "Not describe, portray, or present as credible a description or portrayal of the actions precipitating or involved in the events of the January 6, 2021, insurrection as peaceful protest."

Schools may also not "state, suggest, or present as credible a statement or suggestion that there was extensive election fraud that could have changed or actually changed the results of the 2020 presidential election."

Instead, the measure says that school instruction must "Describe the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the United States Capitol as an unprecedented, violent attack on United States democratic institutions, infrastructure, and representatives for the purpose of overturning the results of the 2020 presidential election."

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/virginia-legislation-prohibiting-schools-jan-6-falsehoods/

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Virginia passes legislation prohibiting schools from teaching falsehoods about Jan. 6 riot (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 12 hrs ago OP
Thank you.............. Lovie777 12 hrs ago #1
GOOD. Diamond_Dog 12 hrs ago #2
What a difference a Blue Wave makes! Grateful to live spooky3 12 hrs ago #3
It's a start! 2naSalit 12 hrs ago #4
Fantastic!! Talitha 12 hrs ago #5
Well, dayum! sheshe2 11 hrs ago #6
Shame you have to pass a law to teach the truth Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 10 hrs ago #7
Precisely.. TY! Cha 10 hrs ago #9
TY & Virginia! It's a Shame it has come to Cha 10 hrs ago #8
Kinda reminds me of Germany's No Nazi law! BidenRocks 9 hrs ago #10
It really is kind of sad we have to pass a law for such.... Teaching the truth should be easy..... ashredux 9 hrs ago #11
So, this is CBS which is basically Faux now, right? AllyCat 9 hrs ago #12
I want to see this happen in Pennsylvania also FakeNoose 9 hrs ago #13
May other states follow Bayard 5 hrs ago #14

BidenRocks

(3,138 posts)
10. Kinda reminds me of Germany's No Nazi law!
Fri Mar 6, 2026, 07:45 PM
9 hrs ago

I salute this 'No Bullshit' approach to truthiness!

ashredux

(2,923 posts)
11. It really is kind of sad we have to pass a law for such.... Teaching the truth should be easy.....
Fri Mar 6, 2026, 07:45 PM
9 hrs ago

To paraphrase Mark Twain: a lie gets halfway around the world before you can get your boots on…..

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