San Francisco Will Spend $600,000 to Erase History
June 30, 2019 7:04 PM Subscribe
The art does not reflect “social justice,” the group said, and it “is not student-centered if it’s focused on the legacy of artists, rather than the experience of the students.” “This is a radical and critical work of art,” the school’s alumni association argued. “There are many New Deal murals depicting the founding of our country; very few even acknowledge slavery or the Native genocide.
This post was deleted for the following reason: I feel like if we want to have a post about this it should be based one something other than a Bari Weiss op-ed. -- cortex
The article seems to *really* be trying hard to make this out to be "sjw/millenial silliness" when it seems like classic historical revisionism, which really isn't a leftist thing.
posted by signsofrain at 7:20 PM on June 30, 2019
posted by signsofrain at 7:20 PM on June 30, 2019
Is there much difference here between the school board's plans and the actions of the Taliban in removing the Buddhas at Bamiyan?
yes
posted by lalochezia at 7:20 PM on June 30, 2019 [1 favorite]
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