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Providence Government Erases Iryna Zarutska From Memory – HotAir

March 31, 2026
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In my VIP post yesterday, I wrote about the left’s need to erase inconvenient facts. 

Among the examples I brought up was the Mayor of Providence, RI, attempting to pressure a gay club to remove a mural of Iryna Zarutska from the side of their building. 





The story struck me as an extreme example of the Stalinesque tendency of leftists to airbrush history to make it fit their narrative. Since Zarutska was murdered by a beneficiary of leftist decarceration policies that allowed a violent felon to keep walking the streets, her murder must be buried.

Just as all the rapes and murders committed by illegal aliens must be hidden, or terrorist attacks by Muslims must be played down. Or transgender mass killings. Or… You get the idea. We have heard about tiki torches in Charlottesville for years, but actual murders and rapes go down the memory hole. 

Well, the Mayor and the city council of Providence succeeded in erasing Iryna. She doesn’t reflect our values, it seems. Bad people are sad that she died, and as the Democrats proved with their stony silence at the State of the Union, good people don’t care a whit about her, and are in fact angry she ever existed. 





Iryna represents badthink. We must do goodthink. Say three Hail Transgenders and the BLM rosary and repent. 

Apparently, the anti-Iryna movement is nationwide. It seems that everywhere a mural of her pops up, liberals rush to vandalize it. 

According to Grok:

Known Vandalism Incidents

  • Chicago (North Center, Montrose Ave mural by SAV45): This is the most documented case. It was vandalized at least twice(possibly more):
    • Early incidents included “Hang Musk” graffiti (January 2026, quickly covered) and an attempted “paint bomb.”
    • A later defacement with black/dark paint splatters on her face (reported around late February–early March 2026). Some accounts describe it as being hit “again” within two weeks or “several times.”
  • New York City (Lower East Side/Bushwick area): At least one mural was tagged with graffiti, including phrases like “PLEASE VANDALIZE THIS” or “Fuck Trump” shortly after installation (early 2026).
  • Pensacola, Florida: One mural was severely defaced, with vandals reportedly replacing Iryna’s portrait with the face of her killer.
  • Washington, D.C.: References to a mural being vandalized “at least three times total,” including spray paint covering her face (tied to broader campaign mentions).
  • Other locations (e.g., mentions of murals in Los Angeles, Miami, Las Vegas, Charlotte, etc.): General reports note that “murals created in memory of Iryna Zarutska have reportedly been vandalized multiple times,” but specifics are limited. Some were temporary or faced backlash/removal rather than outright vandalism (e.g., a partially completed one in Providence was removed due to controversy).

The vandalism often appears politically motivated, linked to the campaign’s funding (including support from Elon Musk and others) and its messaging on crime and public safety. Reactions have been mixed, with some viewing the murals as tributes and others criticizing them as political statements. Not every mural has been targeted, and many remain intact or have been repaired.

Exact totals are hard to pin down because the project is decentralized (involving many artists and cities), and not all incidents receive media coverage. Coverage from early-to-mid 2026 focuses on high-profile cases in Chicago and NYC. If you’re looking for updates on a specific city or mural, more details could help narrow it down.





When teenagers do a donut on a rainbow crosswalk, it becomes national news, the perpetrators are hunted down and charged with hate crimes, and we need a national conversation on “phobias.” Cities pay to paint Black Lives Matters on streets, put up the Progress Pride Flag as a statement, and even build monuments to George Floyd, and God forbid anybody object. 

Liberals cannot abide you noticing reality. There is a genre of tweets out there of mugshots where the authorities have clearly race-swapped the perpetrators to juke the statistics. Too many perps are minorities, so they label them as “white” for the statistics. In San Francisco the BART managers decided they couldn’t release CCTV of crimes on the trains because it was racist to let people know who was committing crimes. 





In Germany, where sexual assaults by Syrian refugees are a crisis, the campaign against them is based on the idea that white people are harassing brown people. 

Acknowledging reality is racist, sexist, phobic, and mean. So it must be erased, or twisted, or hoaxes must be created. 

Democrats will look you in the eye and tell you that white supremacist terrorism is a massive problem in the US, but when you ask them to name the incidents, they sputter and dredge up decades-old events like the Oklahoma City bombing. Any of us could pull out of a hat any number of trans-related attacks, or Muslim attacks, without blinking an eye because they are far more common, and out of a much smaller population of potential perpetrators. Trans people are way less than 1% of the population, but you could name a bunch of shootings in just the past couple of years. 





Muslims make up about 1% of the US population, and we have had several terrorist attacks in the past few weeks. But sure, white supremacists are the problem. 

It’s all about narrative control. Showing Iryna “doesn’t fit our values” because “our values” are based on Critical Theory, which in turn is based on the idea that criminals are victims and victims of criminals deserved it.


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