Deplorable Yankee
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Roughly one-third of Bay Area schools may change their names. The San Francisco School Names Advisory Committee has recommended that 44 schools drop their namesakes on account of racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, or whatever recent historical opinion must be demonized on account of political correctness. The blacklist includes a number of familiar names — George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, for instance — but it also includes a few surprises.
The cancel culture mob has come for a sitting senator and former mayor of San Francisco, Dianne Feinstein. What was Feinstein’s heinous crime? In 1986, the mayor dared to replace a Confederate flag after it had been vandalized. She wasn’t endorsing the Confederate flag — it was merely one of several historical flags flying in front of City Hall at the time.
Oh I so love it when they eat their own
The cancel culture mob has come for a sitting senator and former mayor of San Francisco, Dianne Feinstein. What was Feinstein’s heinous crime? In 1986, the mayor dared to replace a Confederate flag after it had been vandalized. She wasn’t endorsing the Confederate flag — it was merely one of several historical flags flying in front of City Hall at the time.
Oh I so love it when they eat their own