Univ. of Kentucky Pampers Snowflakes on Historic Mural

[Weatherman2020]

Back in November, officials at the University of Kentucky covered up a historic mural because a small but vocal group of students found some of the painting’s depictions offensive.

The taxpayer-funded officials have now uncensored the mural — but they will be placing “digital boards” around it to make sure no one thinks some wrong thing.

The mural, which spreads over most of a large wall in Memorial Hall, “told a story through a talented artist’s eyes within the context of her time,” University of Kentucky president Eli Capilouto wrote in a tortured essay last week, according to Inside Higher Ed.

Capilouto wants to preserve “the art as part of our history” but also add “to it to tell a more complete and sensitively rendered story of our human experience.”

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[Dogmaphobe]

These identity politics driven leftists of today remind me of Maoists of the 70s or Nazis of the 40s in their attitude towards free expression. For Maoists, all art had to serve the great fraud of communism. Nazis had a term they called "degenerative art" which referred to anything that did not glorify the Aryan race.

Damn, but the more things change, the more they stay the same.

 

[Weatherman2020]

I wonder if they have segregated drinking fountains too.