THEY LEFT THEIR SEATS IN SAN FRANCISCO.
Three SFSB members went a school too far, as the far Left progressive trio were recalled and ousted from the city by the bay’s school board. They died of self-inflicted wounds, impaled on the radical spike of far left activism.
The school-renaming movement built momentum as a reform to stop honoring Confederate figures. Given where we are in the 21st Century, it’s a reasonable project whose time had come. The train derailed when the hit list went after time-honored Americans—usually dead white males— replacing them with progressive icons and symbols of its unofficial platform.
Wiping out George Washington, revolutionary war legends, Abraham Lincoln, and others in favor of politically correct heroes appalled even the tres, tres liberals of San Francisco. Many recognized the immense damage to the national culture, and educational implications of equating Abraham Lincoln to Jefferson Davis. In addition to our native population, we have a huge immigrant demographic with little knowledge of their new country’s past. Denigrating revered Americans and banishing their names to skewed pedantic politics weakens the national character by disavowing the best of our historical icons. Cancelling members of the American pantheon is oxymoronic to inclusion. We can cherish our noble past, discuss our mistakes and failures while exploring the zeitgeist in which it all unfolded, and move forward to a more perfect Union.
Incidentally, I doubt very much the new names would meet the SF3’s own standards of saintly perfection, an unblemished life without error, unstigmatized by prejudice. The progressive Left has their own issues with bias and inclusion. However, their objective transcends mere nomenclature.
Among the first acts of attaining power, revolutionaries will destroy the manifestations of the past because legitimizing the new regime is critical to solidifying power. Name replacement is about supplanting traditional American beliefs and shared homage to our democratic heritage with Far Left progressivism. The Right is doing the same when they control the school boards. We see it in the anti-democratic book censorship in schools and support of anti-anti-bullying programs. school boards disrespect our democracy by denying or repelling any social and cultural advancements made since 1960 or name change for partisan advantage . The victim of both extremes is our national identity, common cause, shared reverence for imperfect humans who rose to be great when needed the most. Our students and country suffer when revisionist politics turn heroes to outliers. .
A case in point: the SF Board placed Dianne Feinstein Elementary School in the crosshairs of the Name Police. The Left’s beef with the former mayor rewinds to a 1984 incident, wherein then Mayor Feinstein replaced a Confederate flag, torn down by activists. In addition to this incident, local media has reported her centrist views has drawn their ire for decades. Canceling Feinstein would be a major moral victory for progressives, despite her minority status as a woman and—or because of it—an octogenarian Jew. Feinstein’s erasure smacks of the radical Democratic socialists’ own partisan aims and prejudices that infuriated the rest of San Francisco.
While the trio lost their way in the name game, the school system and its communities of students, staff, parents, was free falling. The mayor saw “a political agenda” supersede their management obligations. The members also strove to eliminate requirements for its elite high school—a flashpoint for hard progressive leftists that also carried anti-Asian connotations. Accusations over COVID19 miscues was the last straw.
The city’s mayor, London Breed, summed it up when he said the school board was distracted by “political agendas. “ (Newsmax). Mayor Breed got one thing wrong: the political agenda was not a distraction. It was the raison d etre.