Ask your California State Assembly Member to vote against SB 234 unless it is amended to explicitly permit the presentation of contra-genocide viewpoints in genuine historical controversies.
SB 234 would allow the California State Curriculum Commission to recommend adding an oral history component to the 2014 history-social science curriculum framework that relates to genocide. The Armenian Lobby has been heavily lobbying for this bill. Should it be passed, this will open the classroom doors to the lobby’s well organized campaign to demonize Turks today and to prevent an open, fair and truthful discussion of Ottoman-Armenian history. Turkish Americans, however, will be prevented from entering the classroom, even if their family history recalls horrifying events, no less tragic than those of others, because they would counter the “Armenian Genocide” narrative, which this legislation endorses.
We urge Turkish Americans to forcefully counter this legislation TODAY for the sake of generations to come.
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