Posted on 12/12/2016 9:54:44 AM PST by Red Badger
Students at the University of Pennsylvania removed a portrait of Shakespeare from a prominent location in the school’s English department after complaining that he did not represent a diverse range of writers.
The Department had previously voted to remove the painting, so students took matters into their own hands, replacing the portrait with one of an African American writer and delivering Shakespeare to the Department Chair's office.
Students at the University of Pennsylvania removed a portrait of Shakespeare from a prominent location in the school’s English department after complaining that he did not represent a diverse range of writers.
In fact, the chair of the department confirmed in a statement that the portrait was stripped from the wall by his students as “a way of affirming their commitment to a more inclusive mission for the English department,” The Daily Pennsylvanian reports.
Additionally, Department Chair Jed Esty explained that the portrait was “delivered” to his office and replaced with a photograph of Audre Lorde, a celebrated African American feminist and author, in a move that was in intended to send a message to Esty, whose department agreed to replace the portrait several years ago.
Esty went on to confirm that the portrait of Lorde will remain in Shakespeare’s place until he and his colleagues can reach an agreement on what to do next, announcing the establishment of a “working group” to help monitor the process.
According to a statement released by the school’s English department, the working group will help “declare and defend [its] departmental mission in the current political climate,” with Esty noting that the group will “initiate an open and collaborative conversation among students, faculty, and employees in English to come up with ideas for that public space.”
Notably, the school’s “Code of Student Conduct” explicitly prohibits students from “stealing, damaging, defacing, or misusing the property or facilities of the university or of others.”
Campus Reform reached out to the school for a comment on the matter, but did not receive a response in time for publication.
Hmmm...let’s see. Any UPenn graduate 2017-2021 resume automatically goes in the circular file. No logical capabilities.
ENGLISH department, people. The best writers of all time from ENGLAND. What is so hard to understand???
Should Mark Twain’s bust be placed prominently at an African University’s literature department??
I think you may have written the
Post of the Thread. Good one.
MLK must be spinning in his grave..............
Wow, her quotes ARE more timeless and brilliant than Shakespeare’s. Thanks for letting me see the light.
“Lord, what fools these mortals be.”
Well, they gotta put somebody's bust there............B^)
He has been spinning so much during BLM that MLK corkscrewed his coffin to the center of the earth!
Throw in some of the Lama for added diversity...
“Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-lagunga”- Dahli Lama (as told to Carl Spackler)
“These little kids are getting too big for their britches!”
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They don’t have to worry about growing into a bigger hat size.
Precisely
Next, they’ll be demanding that the English Department teach literature written in Swahili.
Best game ever. We have an entire table dedicated solely to Othello.
Since social justice has no stated ends, it knows no endpoint, yet it can use any means to get there.
These diversity pimps are like the academic taliban. No culture except they approve of may be appreciated.
Never has this nation been so divided and in such turmoil. Thanks Obama.
Red Snowflakes
Next up, Thought Police.................
I remember the 1993 “water buffalo” incident that resulted in the firing of UPenn’s president, Sheldon Hackney. At the time, it was one of the first PC speech-suppression incidents on a U.S. campus. So, Penn led the craziness, and should have moved on to the new thing by now. Unfortunately...
Sadly, Penn has long been a fount of politically correct buffoonery - but one positive development to come out of it all has been FIRE, which, as you probably know, was started by Penn professor Alan Charles Kors, who was the faculty member who stood in defense of the young man accused in the “water buffalo” incident - concerned about the rising abuse of freedom of speech on campuses, he and Harvey Silverglate of Princeton organized the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education - Fire is now headquartered in downtown Philadelphia, and handles complaints of violations of students’ rights all over the country. I happily donate money I would otherwise be giving to alma mater Penn to FIRE and NAS - the National Association of Scholars - which stands up for teachers’ rights to free speech on campuses. Nicely ironic I think.
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