We discuss the ongoing controversy about a mural in San Francisco's Washington High School. Does the mental health of students outweigh the artistic merit and pedagogical value of the mural, which is critical of America's history? More importantly, what kinds of assumptions and vocabularies are operative in this debate? We try to develop a more critical approach to the topic with assistance from Talal Asad and Saba Mahmood's essays on the Danish Cartoon Controversy, published in the 2009 volume "Is Critique Secular? Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech."