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The San Francisco Unified School District announced this week that more than 40 public schools in the district will remove the names of historical figures such as Washington and Lincoln from public school names on the grounds that they are “racist”. Some scholars point out that the source of this historical erasure and counterculture movement is Marxism.
The San Francisco City School District Board announced this week that it voted 6-1 to approve a motion to rename the 44 public schools in the district, removing the names of so-called “controversial historical figures” from their school names.
According to the announcement by the San Francisco City School Board, the names of such historical figures as Washington, D.C., the founding father of the United States, President Abraham Lincoln, who abolished slavery, and Presidents Roosevelt and Jefferson were blacklisted by the board on the grounds that they were involved in the so-called “subjugation, enslavement, oppression of women, and suppression of social progress” and They also “diminished people’s rights to Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” among other things.
President Washington became the first president of the United States when he led the Continental Army to win the American War of Independence, giving the United States its independence, and is therefore revered by Americans as the father of the nation. But some leftist groups claim that Washington’s father was a Virginia farmer with more than three hundred slaves on his farm.
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States. At a Time of crisis when the United States was facing secession, Lincoln abolished slavery through the Civil War, freed all slaves on American soil, and preserved the integrity of the Union. During his tenure, Lincoln also promoted the modernization of the American economy. Because of these historical achievements, Lincoln is revered by the American academy and public as one of the greatest presidents in American history. However, leftist groups have accused Lincoln of being “racist” by claiming that he “did not treat blacks and whites alike on some occasions.
The San Francisco School Board’s decision drew fierce criticism from the community. The current mayor of San Francisco, London Breed, has also spoken out against the decision, arguing that the school’s top priority is to deal with the Epidemic.
As early as May 2018, the city of San Francisco had formed a committee to revise the names of public schools.
After the accidental death of African-American George Floyd last summer when a police officer was crushed in the neck while enforcing the law, radical leftist groups launched the so-called “Black Lives Matter” (BLM) movement, which not only beat, vandalized, looted and burned in the streets in the name of protest, but also started a campaign to tear down statues of Washington and Lincoln in city squares. The movement not only openly protested by beating, vandalizing, looting, and burning in the streets, but also launched a campaign to tear down statues of Washington and Lincoln in city squares.
At the time, some black students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison also advocated the removal of one of the university’s most iconic landmarks, the statue of Abraham Lincoln. And University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Blank countered this. She questioned: If a “great emancipator” like Lincoln becomes a “demolished” figure, who else is innocent when discussing the history of the American nation?
Sinha, a Civil War historian and professor at the University of Connecticut, also pointed out that history is complex and nuanced, and that while perhaps Washington or Lincoln were not perfect at everything, they are still highly respected figures in American history, and removing their statues would ruin the entire history of the United States.
Dr. Myers, the president of Summit Ministries, pointed out in an interview with New Tang Dynasty on January 20 that “tearing down statues” to erase history is the same as the recent deletion of posts and blocking of numbers by major technology companies, which is a “counter-Culture movement. It can also be called the “abolitionist culture” movement, the source of which is Marxism.
Dr. Myers says that one of the characteristics of Marxism is that it is good at stigmatizing people in order to eliminate dissent. They always use coercion to “eliminate” voices that disagree with them, rather than allowing discussion.
According to Myers, Marxism creates moral confusion, with the ultimate goal of eliminating and replacing the Western religious-based worldview, since traditional values are the greatest obstacle to the spread of Marxism.
In the last century in China, the Chinese Communist Party also launched the Cultural Revolution in order to create a “unified” Marxist-Leninist cult, which dealt a devastating blow to China’s 5,000-year-old traditional culture.
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