Gish Wish or Whitewashington

Bowling Green is removing Lillian Gish's name from a theatre because she appeared in Birth Of A Nation and, further, never renounced the film.  Meanwhile, a San Francisco high school may be covering up a mural of George Washington because he was a slaveholder among other evils.

Gish and Washington aren't exactly the same (and high schools aren't colleges) but the arguments the authorities make are pretty similar--these moves are to protect the students and the inclusive environment the administration hopes to foster.

I've discussed similar cases of censorship at great length, so I won't rehearse my arguments here.  I'll just note that the biggest irony (among several) is these schools are actively harming these students they're claiming to protect by impoverishing their imaginations and treating them as so brittle and ignorant.