Virginia Dems claim that teaching about evils of communism will offend Asian Americans. How offensive

Virginia Democrats voted against teaching about the dangers of communism and the suffering of its victims after a teachers’ union said the curriculum would incite anti-Asian hate.

Helen Raleigh is a senior contributor to The Federalist, author of "Confucius Never Said," and of "Backlash: How China's Aggression Has Backfired." Follow her on Twitter: @HRaleighspeaks.

A bill like this is long overdue because communism is responsible for the deaths of 100 million people in the 20th century. These victims had names, faces, unfulfilled hopes and dreams. They were husbands, wives, daughters, sons, uncles, aunties, grandparents or grandchildren. 

In Communist China alone, an estimated 30 million people were starved to death during the Great Chinese Famine (1958-1962). The victims included my baby uncle, who was born in 1959 and died in my grandmother’s arms. Additionally, I lost two granduncles, a grand-auntie and her family of five, and my maternal great-grandmother.