Nearly 70 years ago, Arthur Miller wrote âThe Crucible,â a play ostensibly about the 17th century Salem witchcraft trials, in which about 25 people, mostly women, were accused of consorting with the devil and suffered horrible deaths.Â
Thereâs no doubt, however, that Millerâs play was an allegorical denunciation of persecuting Americans suspected of harboring communist beliefs, particularly hearings by Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy. In fact, after writing the play Miller was convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to identify others with whom he had attended certain meetings.Â
The Salem trials and the McCarthy hearings generated two enduring terms âwitch hunt and McCarthyism â to describe intolerance for those who donât conform to current religious or political dogma.
Should Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s name be removed from a San Francisco elementary school?
A volunteer panel appointed by the Board of Education says yes, and is recommending a renaming to city officials.
The School Names Advisory Committee formed two years ago amid a nationwide reckoning on Confederate statues and monuments to America’s racist past. “Many communities are blazing a path toward a more relevant and culturally responsive approach to addressing historical wrongs,” stated the school board resolution forming the committee, adopted May 22, 2018.
The volunteer “blue-ribbon panel” was tasked with reviewing all 114 public school names for their appropriateness, with close attention to those named for people “who engaged in the subjugation and enslavement of human beings,” or who “oppressed women,” or whose “actions led to genocide,” or who “otherwise significantly diminished the opportunities of those amongst us to the right to life, liberty, and the p
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America the Woke
Robert Knight - Guest Columnist Knight
It may be Christmastime, but our ruling elites are keeping up their campaign of cultural cleansing. Not even Honest Abe is safe.
In San Francisco, a committee tasked to rid the school system of now-disgraced public figures at 44 sites, says that a high school named after Abraham Lincoln, who freed the slaves and held America together through the Civil War, ought to drop the Great Emancipator. Lincoln, like the presidents before him and most after, did not show through policy or rhetoric that Black lives ever mattered to them outside of human capital and as casualties of wealth building, explained first-grade teacher Jeremiah Jeffries, chairman of the renaming committee.