Posted on 07/05/2019 7:02:09 AM PDT by Twotone
The San Francisco School Board last week authorized $600,000 in spending to destroy a mural depicting George Washington at a high school named for him.
“It’s rude and disrespectful to people’s cultures,” a junior at the school told the San Francisco Chronicle. The school board president agrees. “I think the images are really harmful,” Stevon Cook explains. “But I do understand the sensitivity about it being art. It’s a difficult position to be in.” The board’s vice president, Mark Sanchez, maintains, “Painting it over represents not only a symbolic fresh start, but a real fresh start.”
The censorship follows the removal of an “Early Days” statue, which depicted an American Indian laying at the feet of a Spanish cowboy and Catholic missionary, outside the San Francisco Public Library in September. The city’s Historic Preservation Committee voted unanimously to remove it and the Arts Commission dubbed the 2,000-pound sculpture “disrespectful, misleading, and racist” in unanimously voting to censor it. The school board similarly found no opposition in its ranks in voting to paint over the Washington mural—despite a New Deal program funding it, a Communist artist painting it, and its message in depicting slavery and a dead Indian as clearly critical of Washington.
The Free Speech Movement called the Bay Area home in the 1960s and a decade earlier Allen Ginsberg published his racy poetry through the City Lights bookstore’s publishing arm. A place that once imagined itself as a safe harbor from censors now looks to Savonarola and Mullah Muhammad Omar as guides. Unsurprisingly, Google, Twitter, and other tech companies headquartered in the area follow, and lead, the intolerant zeitgeist.
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Be sure to thank Nikki Haley for kicking off this erasure of American history.
There are more than just Nikki Haley who should be ashamed of themselves. The Stupid Party has been obsequious in the face of leftist mob rule. Hopefully they’re ALL learning a lesson that we can’t fold to this kind of nonsense.
Should spend that $600,000 on more pressing issues, like cleaning up the urine/feces reeking bus stops and public transport. Though that probably will need a couple more zero’s behind that figure.
Yeah, wiping it out just bothers people because it's "art." No other reasons.
This is like the sad SCOTUS ruling that the Peace Cross in Maryland can stay just because it is an old relic, not because of Constitutional protection of religion.
Bush League Republicans are incapable of learning.
They MUST be replaced with patriots.
They only care about ONE thing.
Completing the Bush Plan for North Mexico (aka USA)
$600K? Dang... the price of a 5 gallon bucket of paint must have increased a lot.
(P.S. - wonder who’s getting to hold the remaining $599,850?)
They're sending a turd? No need, we're good.
Yesterday on July 4th FReepers gave their ideas as replies to a hread on what the Founding Fathers would say about America today.
If George Washington can see this today from his place beyond Earth, I hope he can forgive us for waiting for God's word on what to do.
By the time all of this is done, they could be left with as little as $590,000 to divide up among the politicians.
Mao Zedong did the same thing
Cultural revolution
What could go wrong?
Common totalitarian train of thought. Appreciate history? No, wipe out history. Re-write it.
Cultural marxism.
1. “Hey, we want a Washington mural that accurately depicts the suffering of marginalized ethnic groups..!”
2. Mural created
3. “Hey this mural is really offensive..!! You’ve made us into victims..!”
Please don’t give them any ideas...
The trend has not abated, apparently.
These people would feel right at home with ISIS terrorists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_cultural_heritage_by_ISIL
Destroying art! Next they’ll be burning books - sounds familiar?
Next will be the book burning...
The next step will be to change the name of George Washington school. I’m sure someone is triggered by liberal San Francisco having a school name for Washington.
New Orleans deleted the name of George Washington school. They did so because Washington owned slaves, and that offended the sensibilities of the school board in New Orleans.
They renamed the school after a black heart surgeon.
No word as to whether the increased self esteem of the almost all black student body improved academic achievement, when they were no longer burdened with attending a school named for George Washington.,
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