Opinion: A San Francisco mural has become the latest high-profile target of progressive history censors, writes Fergus M. Bordewich.
A San Francisco mural has become the latest high-profile target of self-appointed censors who want to erase both history and art of which they disapprove. “Life of Washington,” a Works Progress Administration epic depicting scenes of America’s first president across 1,600 square feet, has been on display at a local school since 1936. Yet local activists and bureaucrats have decided its time has gone.
The president of San Francisco’s Board of Education is among the mural’s opponents, who have called the artwork “offensive,”...
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