by Sara Dogan
George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are officially cancelled.
In the latest excess of radical left cancel culture, the San Francisco
School Board has voted to rename 44 public schools after a biased and
historically inaccurate report judged their namesakes to be unworthy of
the honor.
Famous Americans whose names are to be stricken from the schools
include Founding Fathers George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, as well
as less obvious targets such as California Senator Dianne Feinstein, a
radical Democrat. Feinstein's crime? While mayor of San Francisco in
1984, she replaced a Confederate Flag which stood as part of a larger
display outside City Hall, after it was vandalized and removed by
activists. The display featured 18 flags and was intended to showcase
the stages of America's history.
So flagrantly politicized were the renaming decisions, that they
sparked the furor of Democratic activist group, Families for San
Francisco, which denounced the school board's decision-making process in
a lengthy report.
Families for San Francisco condemned the School Names Advisory
Committee which selected the 44 schools to be renamed, noting that "The
Committee was not guided or informed by professional historians or any
other parties with the historical expertise required for the Committee
to do its work" and "As a result...The Guiding Principles used by the
Committee was a 'Just One Thing' test, where a historical figure was to
be removed from a school name on the basis of just a single incident
from a list of criteria."
The similarities to leftist cancel culture did not end
there. Additionally, the report points out that "The research process
consisted of reviewing the names of schools 'pretty quick with some
really casual Google searches,'" and "numerous factual errors were made,
and relevant historical context was often not processed or considered."
Zoom recordings of the naming committee's meetings show that Abraham
Lincoln was discussed for under five seconds before being rejected as a
suitable namesake for San Francisco schools.
The "Guiding Principles" used by the Committee to make its decisions
held that "We will seek to change the names of schools that are named
for: Anyone directly involved in the colonization of people; Slave
owners or participants in enslavement; Perpetuators of genocide or
slavery; Those who exploit workers/people; Those who directly oppressed
or abused women, children, queer or transgender people; Those connected
to any human rights or environmental abuses; Those who are known racists
and/or white supremacists and/or espoused racist beliefs."
As overarching and subjective as these guidelines are, the Naming
Committee compounded their failure by failing to apply their own
rules equally to all historical figures. Families for San Francisco
points to the case of civil rights leader Malcolm X as an example: "The
Committee was going to decide quickly not to recommend Malcolm X Academy
for renaming, until one of the members pointed out there was historical
evidence that Malcolm X had “directly oppressed or abused women.” A ten
minute discussion followed that rationalized reinterpreting the Guiding
Principles to consider all Malcolm X had done in his life in order not
to recommend the school for renaming. To be crystal clear, we agree
wholeheartedly that Malcolm X should be judged by the entirety of his
life. The same is true of all other historical figures."
“We are applying impossible standards for naming when even Abraham
Lincoln doesn’t qualify for this honor,” Jennifer Raiser, a longtime San
Francisco author and activist, told the New York Post. “We are sending a message to our kids that even if you do your best and make some mistakes, you are not good enough.”
When even San Francisco leftists think your attempts to rewrite
history and erase America's founding have gone to far, maybe it's time
to give your crusade another look.
To learn more about the Freedom Center's campaign to halt indoctrination in K-12 schools, please visit our website, www.stopk12indoctrination.org. To read the K-12 Code of Ethics CLICK HERE. To order the Freedom Center’s new pamphlet, “Leftist Indoctrination in Our K-12 Public Schools,” CLICK HERE. To donate to our campaign to stop K-12 Indoctrination CLICK HERE.
Sara Dogan
Source: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/02/san-francisco-votes-rename-schools-named-founding-sara-dogan/
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