Re: [OT] Diversity cult coming for Shakespeare

On 3/20/2025 3:21 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On Mar 20, 2025 at 11:45:03 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
 

On 3/20/2025 12:10 PM, Rhino wrote:

  William Shakespeare is apparently so "problematic" that activists are
  working hard to "de-colonize" him. Leo Kearse explains:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuNgnoBSXAA [18 minutes]
    As Kearse points out, it is *extremely* ironic that the people in the
  Shakespeare Trust, who are supposed to be fans of his work, are the ones
  trying to "de-colonize" him. With "friends" like that, who needs enemies?

>
Shakespeare was a playwright and poet.  His actual verbiage is what we
admire, rather than whatever philosophy we might gratuitously infer from
it.  "Polishing" his words would be like applying CGI to the Mona Lisa.

 Shakespeare was also an Englishman who wrote his plays in England. There was
no 'colonization' there to begin with, so when they 'decolonize' him by
bringing in black and other BIPOC 'voices', they're actually doing what the
claim to abhor: supplanting the voice of an indigenous person with that of
interlopers from other lands. In other words, they're not 'decolonizing'
Shakespeare, they're a bunch of racists who are 'colonizing' an indigenous
voice.
 But that's okay, you see, because that indigenous voice is white.

On yet another tack, it's hard to imagine Shakespeare's being read today by anyone who's still in their formative years re "colonialization" (...outside of a classroom, that is, with moats of prefatory guidance).