More on campus revisionism and PC schlock, courtesty of Beth Henary of The Weekly Standard:

At Indiana University, students are lobbying to have a decades-old work of art removed from a classroom on campus. The work is part of a multi-panel depiction of the history of Indiana that celebrated muralist Thomas Hart Benton painted for exhibition at the Chicago World Fair in 1933.

Commissioned by the governor of Indiana–a state that only a decade before had been politically controlled by the Ku Klux Klan–the mural didn’t shy away from what was arguably the most shameful period in the state’s history. Prominent in one of the panels–the one now under fire–is a depiction of Klan members burning a cross in front of a church. The contested panel is one of two sections of the mural currently hanging in room 100 of the Woodburn building, an auditorium-style classroom used for political science, history, and other liberal arts classes.

Last week, the Black Student Union held a town hall meeting with administrators to complain about the artistic depiction of the Klan in a classroom, where, they point out, students cannot avoid it. A columnist for the student paper, the Indiana Daily Student, agreed, saying the mural should be removed to a museum (a move that might damage the mural), so that students who are offended by it could avoid seeing it. The fact that the painting is actually anti-Klan is immaterial, the writer argued: ‘Many students have found it offensive over the years. While it might be educational to many, this isn’t enough to risk offending even a handful of students.’

‘The University’s mission is to educate,’ wrote Alexis Silas, ‘and perhaps this controversial artwork is educational. But education shouldn’t come at the expense of someone’s feelings.‘ [emphasis mine]

Hear that? Education shouldn’t come at the expense of someone’s feelings.

So it’s official, then. Education is dead. Oprah wins.

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