BarkellWH -> RE: What do you mean, 'Who's the author?' - ALL OF THEM! (Mar. 21 2021 13:00:37)
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Cancel culture isn’t restricted to the right — in fact there’s a considerable body of research to show that the mentalities of the hard left and the hard right are more similar to each other than to those of the moderates of their own persuasions. The latest egregious example of "cancel culture" on the left has come from the San Francisco School Board. Mark Twain once observed: "In the first place, God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards." The San Francisco School Board's recent decision to rename 44 schools demonstrates the ignorance and incompetence of its members as they unwittingly prove Twain's observation correct. According to an article in "The Atlantic," the board moved in 2018 to establish a commission to evaluate renaming schools to 'condemn any symbols of white supremacy and racism,' said Gabriela López, the board president. The commission had decided that schools named after figures who fit the following criteria would be renamed: “engaged in the subjugation and enslavement of human beings; or who oppressed women, inhibiting societal progress; or whose actions led to genocide; or who otherwise significantly diminished the opportunities of those amongst us to the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” The 44 to be renamed included those named for George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Abraham Lincoln, Paul Revere, Theodore Roosevelt, the poet James Russell Lowell, and even Senator Diane Feinstein, among many others. That our founding fathers kept slaves has long been known, but they are not honored for slavery. They are honored because they created institutions that still ring true today--the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the form of government of checks and balances, etc. That the United States has not always lived up to its promise is no reason to "cancel" their work. To obliterate their names and not recognize the good they represent while pointing out their flaws, does neither the students nor the public a favor. But that is the purpose of "cancel culture," to obliterate anything that goes against the perceived moral superiority of the self-absorbed idiocy of these arbiters of proper social conduct. By the way, the board did not recommend that Malcolm X Elementary School be renamed, although Malcolm X during his career was a pimp, a racist against Whites (he called them "ice people") and a one-time follower of that antisemitic, bigoted, racist Louis Farrakhan. Guess that was a bridge too far for this august group of poseurs masquerading as historians. Bill
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