Something San Francisco This Way Comes
American Spectator,
by
Daniel J. Flynn
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
7/5/2019 5:02:53 AM
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,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
anniebc 7/5/2019 5:34:36 AM (No. 114563)
I wonder what the statues and portraits of American patriots will be replaced with and when will the leftist make their move? Will they go bold with Che, Stalin, Lenin, Sanger, the Clintons, the obamas, Ted the Swimmer and all he did for education, and others like them? What will the silent majority do when it happens? All it takes to destroy them images and historical significance is one complaint, right? Can we say those images are "really harmful" and expect to see them taken down? What about when they exchange our current flag for something that's less harmful and doesn't conjure images of racism, oppression, and disenfranchisement? This is where they would like to go, but will we let them? Do the millennials care?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Rinktum 7/5/2019 5:52:23 AM (No. 114569)
The enemy within is trying to erase our history. Erase it, deny it, lie about it. Our foundation must be destroyed in order to make way for their socialist nightmare. The left has been on ten year rant regarding our evil founding and history, and they do not intend to stop. It is a strategy to make us doubt ourselves and it is working. So many young people have a skewed version of history and that is by design. The progressives want them to question everything. We must not allow this to happen. Get our kids out of these indoctrination camps that charge an arm and leg to lie to your children. Teach them while they are young to know our history and love this country. The left has made it a priority to target our children. We cannot allow that. Patriots are not born, that pride must be instilled. Everything good about this country the left hates. We must stand united against this kind of foolishness or the left will erase our history. God heal us to fight the evil that is in constant attack mode. We must pushback against their malignant agenda.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
BarryNo 7/5/2019 6:31:59 AM (No. 114587)
Considering how they treat our founders, when they dedicate a statue to the communists they love, waltz in with a pickup truck and chains and hail them down. We can be offended, too.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
susieq1 7/5/2019 6:36:41 AM (No. 114591)
The American Taliban.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Socio 7/5/2019 6:50:13 AM (No. 114597)
Painting over it does not "represent a fresh start" it represents the destruction of American history!
The Anti-America scum on the Left like that school board VP have got their indoctrination of the youth in that community running like a well oiled machine teaching children to hate their own heritage and culture for political gain, the Left has more facets of despicable than one can count.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
udanja99 7/5/2019 6:58:35 AM (No. 114606)
This is America. We have American culture. If people from other cultures are offended, they are free to leave. One of the millions of wonderful things about this country is that no one will make you stay here. Unlike the countries that left so loves. Go try and protest the culture in Cuba.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Krause 7/5/2019 7:22:47 AM (No. 114617)
So, the school board feels they are more moral and visionary than George Washington was in his time. Wow, what great people!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
chance_232 7/5/2019 7:34:54 AM (No. 114626)
I propose replacing the painting with ones depicting atrocities committed by native Americans against other native American tribes. Aztec human sacrifices and enslavement. Afrucan owned and operated slave trade centers. Images of the Spanish inquisition, Mao's "cultural revolution".
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
MOAB 7/5/2019 7:42:15 AM (No. 114634)
San Francisco is now officially the Sh#t-Hole of America in more ways than one. Perfect example of Democrats in charge of trying to run a city.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Socaworld 7/5/2019 7:45:55 AM (No. 114637)
Crucifix in a jar of urine? No prob for the left. That's art!
Painting of America's greatest hero? owwwww, it burns, it burns!
Liberalism is an emotional illness.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
aasilver 7/5/2019 7:56:08 AM (No. 114645)
The 'Taliban' of California and San Francisco strikes again.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
JrSample 7/5/2019 8:23:41 AM (No. 114661)
The censors are too stupid to realize that this mural was painted by a communist whose work was intended to be critical of America. It was even funded by a New Deal works program. They are painting over their own propaganda and are too dense to realize it.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
planetgeo 7/5/2019 8:36:09 AM (No. 114671)
Instead of painting over it, why don't they just let the little punks graffiti it, so it looks like the rest of their craphole city and openly displays the official disrespect they have for America, its history, values, and culture? Talk about "rude and disrespectful". Someday a couple of divisions of Marines are going to be needed to retake that city.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Marjbaldwin 7/5/2019 9:07:07 AM (No. 114704)
The Left is an actual mental disease. We need a vaccine and a cure, fast.
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Why don't they leave it and paint another mural closeby depicting now to become a comparison. Have a contest to decide what to paint.
Make sure there are homeless, feces on the street, drug users, unwed mothers, illegals and murderers included though.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
starboard 7/5/2019 9:44:36 AM (No. 114735)
Yesterday in California there was an Earthquake. The Lord works in strange ways.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
halfnorsk 7/5/2019 9:46:46 AM (No. 114738)
$600,000 to paint over a mural? In my part of the country a gallon of paint costs $20.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
VietVet68 7/5/2019 9:47:34 AM (No. 114740)
The indoctrination of San Francisco is complete.....Communist goals 30 and 31 have been fully applied comrades.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Old Army Vet 7/5/2019 10:09:00 AM (No. 114768)
Trying to erase history will not make it go away. I wonder if anyone has looked into how the slaves got into slavery in the first place. I never seem to hear any discussion of the people that sold their brothers and sisters into slavery in the first place. That might be an interesting discussion to have.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
DVC 7/5/2019 10:14:46 AM (No. 114773)
Anti-Americans, eager to erase history and try to rewrite their lies into their new Fake History.
Sad, nasty, mean little Mexicans.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 7/5/2019 10:33:10 AM (No. 114796)
What it offends the illegal invader who crossed the border yesterday? That fresh new start is what the VP of the school board is talking about?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
iamshazzam 7/5/2019 10:51:44 AM (No. 114816)
Remove all MY federal taxes that go to support San Francisco, and ANYONE who disowns allegiance to the United States of America!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 7/5/2019 11:20:41 AM (No. 114849)
So the minorities think that depiction of history is disrespectful of culture? This is what happens when these Leftists refuse to teach kids history. That mural simply portrayed how it was THEN. That is not disrespect, that is something called history kids. Gives you a place to start comparing with how it was then, and how far we have come. When is the media going to point out it is the minorities on the left who are erasing the history of this nation. Which by the way is majority white and Christian. Just simple reality, but it sure irritates the Left.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
panther361 7/5/2019 11:24:33 AM (No. 114854)
Nothing new here. Long ago the USSR made their goal clear, to overtake the USA one way or another. Many years were spent with frontal assaults, albeit small in relative size. They knew full well an assault headon would be met with failure and total destruction on both parties. All that remained for a mechanism was "incrementalism". We are witnessing the latest ploy by way of the antics of small groups like antifa, and a larger scale by the formerly known as Democrats taken over by purist socialism. This has been going on since the close of WWII. The greatest weapon we possess, in my belief, is God. This has been the case since our inception. The left has made it clear religion must be vanquished. They need that as badly as the Russians did before. It has a new face but the song remains the same. Make a decision. Are we really tired of being free?
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 7/5/2019 11:28:06 AM (No. 114857)
Will they also ignore the atrocities of the Spanish as they "conquered" the New World too?
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Rama41 7/5/2019 11:28:38 AM (No. 114858)
Artistic revisionism coming soon to a state capitol near you. Religious imagery in your state supreme court? Settlers and Native Americans interacting and gracing your state legislatures? Prepare for them to be replaced, probably by whatever wins the competition among your local schools.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
AZRandFan 7/5/2019 11:29:56 AM (No. 114862)
Even though Washington changed his views on slavery later in life, that doesn't matter because of his sin. It is prosecuting heresies in a similar vain to the Salem Witch Trials. The Khmer Rouge also sought to rewrite or erase history and the result was the Killing Fields. Our side has to do things to put these POS's on the defensive. Enlist artists to re-paint this mural in another city or erect statues dedicated to him and other Founding Fathers. Union and Confederate nonprofits still erect Civil War statues despite the ones taken down. What they're doing could be emulated to preserve and even teach American history.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
snakeoil 7/5/2019 12:27:47 PM (No. 114916)
Will the new mural feature bums answering the call of nature in the street? Will it feature the massacre of 500 settlers at Fort Mims by Creek Injuns? Why not rename the high school for a San Fran hero such as Colon Sackofcrap? World gets more disgusting by day.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
JonR 7/5/2019 1:11:56 PM (No. 114963)
"All it take for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"! Edmond Burk
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
little guy 7/5/2019 5:41:58 PM (No. 115141)
Kudos to Rinktum. The battle for the soul of this country is in the schools. Just look at AOC. She is a product of the public school system and has been indoctrinated to hate and belittle this glorious country. If we don't get the educational system back, and I'm talking about starting with pre-K and Kindergarten, then all will definitely be lost.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
DVC 7/5/2019 6:53:34 PM (No. 115232)
Just like the guck leaking out of the bottom of a dumpster, the horrible ick of San Fran is leaking out.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
TCloud 7/5/2019 7:39:35 PM (No. 115264)
Pull ALL FEDERAL $.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
The Remnants 7/5/2019 8:32:48 PM (No. 115304)
What a farce! The City of San Francisco will be spending $600,000 to destroy a mural of one of the Founding Fathers, all the while people defecate on the streets of the city and toss used drug paraphernalia everywhere and anywhere. Does not even one these high school students take umbrage at such behavior? And how about those in Silicon Valley who are the arbiters of the very best in everything and anything? Can't they resolve the problem of the messy streets of San Francisco? Forget George Washington! The city has a public health problem which can effect everyone and anyone; yet they pick on George Washington because he can't fight back.
The students should study their American History and find out why he was called a Founding Father.
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