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Posted by Mike LaChance on December 29, 2020 67 Comments
The left's efforts to tear down the past may have started with the toppling of historical statues, but it is now working its way into other areas such as literature and education. A teacher in Lawrence, Massachusetts, recently claimed on Twitter that Homer's Odyssey had been removed from the curriculum.

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 16, 2020 19 Comments
The San Francisco Unified School District targeted 44 schools for possible name changes back in October. The list included Abraham Lincoln. Dianne Feinstein, Herbert Hoover, and others. The school district voted this week to rename Abraham Lincoln school due to his comments about black people and "the majority of his policies proved to be detrimental to [Native Americans]."

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 05, 2020 15 Comments
Philip Carl Salzman is a retired Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at McGill University in Canada. He has become the target of a cancel culture mob for the crime of criticizing social justice, rape culture, Black Lives Matter, and other aspects of the academic left which are considered beyond reproach. Students want Salzman stripped of his emeritus status and are demanding a review of the university's policy on academic freedom.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 29, 2020 56 Comments
"Cancel culture" is a plague that has infected academia and campuses for a long time, and has moved from campus to the general culture. But it has been particularly prominent in the news in 2020 over issues of racial politics, particularly the Black Lives Matter Movement and Critical Race Theory (sometimes called "antiracist") indoctrination.
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