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After severe backlash, the San Francisco Board of Education backed away from its decision to rename 44 schools. In January, a committee voted to wipe away the names of anyone who, in its opinion, helped perpetuate slavery, racism, colonization, and white supremacy. The historical figures mown down by the broad sweep of the cancellation scythe included George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Paul Revere, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Muir, and a contemporary entrant, Dianne Feinstein, the Democratic senator.

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Chotiner tried again: “Part of the problem is that the ties may not be what the committee said they were.”

At that point, Lopez said, “So then, you go into discrediting the work that they’re doing and the process that they put together in order to create this list ... I don’t want to get into a process where we then discredit the work that this group has done.”

Get that? Asking historically relevant questions is somehow unfairly “discrediting” the group's work. Her feelings don't care about your facts.

It turns out that this absurdity could not hold even in San Francisco, the capital city of left-wing nuttery.

On Sunday, after weeks of backlash, Lopez finally conceded that pushing through the renaming, particularly when the district can’t even find a way to get children in classrooms, was not such a good idea.