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I think a lot of people here seem to be missing the staggering part of this: the mural is overtly, pointedly anti-slavery, anti-colonialism, anti-George Washing

by gok 7y ago

I think a lot of people here seem to be missing the staggering part of this: the mural is overtly, pointedly anti-slavery, anti-colonialism, anti-George Washington, but it's being destroyed because the school board is claiming it's the opposite.

TeMPOraL 7y ago
Yup. I'm not sure if people are missing it, or just got used to it. This isn't the first time an action or proclamation in the name of "social justice" twists reality into a Klein bottle.
makomk 7y ago
It's not just the school board that's claiming that. If you look at the Guardian article, for example, it presents the claim that the mural is pro-slavery and pro-colonialism as simply and indisputably correct, and claims to the contrary as a rebutted error of a few wrong-thinking people: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/27/san-francisco-high-school-murals-painted-over https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/27/san-francisc... Remember, any right-thinking leftwing supporters of social justice wouldn't be caught dead reading or believing an article by right-winger Bari Weiss. Doing so would instantly mark them out as a supporter of the enemy. As far as they're concerned (or at least can admit to in public), it will be the people who think this artwork means what the artist created to mean who are ignoring reality.
ndarwincorn 7y ago
And on top of that they have the gall to call it 'reparations'. Truly Orwellian.
Fins 7y ago
But realizing this about the mural would require being able to see past the immediate thing that is depicted, or, God forbid, doing some research. Neither is something the radical fringe (left or right) feeding on outrage is either interested in or, quite likely, capable of. I wouldn't be too surprised though if SF turns out to be the first place to burn books this century.

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I think a lot of people here seem to be missing the staggering part of this: the mural is overtly, pointedly anti-slavery, anti-colonialism, anti-George Washing

by gok 7y ago

TeMPOraL 7y ago
Yup. I'm not sure if people are missing it, or just got used to it. This isn't the first time an action or proclamation in the name of "social justice" twists reality into a Klein bottle.
makomk 7y ago
It's not just the school board that's claiming that. If you look at the Guardian article, for example, it presents the claim that the mural is pro-slavery and pro-colonialism as simply and indisputably correct, and claims to the contrary as a rebutted error of a few wrong-thinking people: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/27/san-francisco-high-school-murals-painted-over https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/27/san-francisc... Remember, any right-thinking leftwing supporters of social justice wouldn't be caught dead reading or believing an article by right-winger Bari Weiss. Doing so would instantly mark them out as a supporter of the enemy. As far as they're concerned (or at least can admit to in public), it will be the people who think this artwork means what the artist created to mean who are ignoring reality.
ndarwincorn 7y ago
And on top of that they have the gall to call it 'reparations'. Truly Orwellian.
Fins 7y ago
But realizing this about the mural would require being able to see past the immediate thing that is depicted, or, God forbid, doing some research. Neither is something the radical fringe (left or right) feeding on outrage is either interested in or, quite likely, capable of. I wouldn't be too surprised though if SF turns out to be the first place to burn books this century.