Posted on 09/29/2024 5:22:48 AM PDT by DFG
Two faculty members condemned “white ownership” of Shakespeare and the state’s manipulation of black history during an “Appropriation Series” at Arizona State University last week.
The scholars are pushing for changes in curriculum and leadership that reflect more “diverse” voices. During the panel, they spoke to eleven ASU students in the audience and other faculty members via Zoom.
English Professor Ruben Espinosa argued that Shakespeare’s legacy has been manipulated for purposes of exclusion and viewed through a lens of “white superiority.”
He said that for the Jan. 6 “insurrectionists” at the U.S. capitol, Shakespeare represents a symbol of “white exceptionalism” and “racial hierarchy.”
The organizers sent a letter to the Folger Shakespeare Library, the world’s largest Shakespeare collection located one block from the U.S. Capitol, and not to other institutions like the Library of Congress to notify them of the protest beforehand, he said.
Espinosa said this act reflects the insurrectionists’ perception of Shakespeare as an emblem of “white superiority,” which is why they deemed it important to protect the library during the protest.
“Shakespeare sits atop of that racial hierarchy. He is the epitome of what they consider white exceptionalism…and this is why he’s valuable,” the English professor said.
Espinosa also argued that the Shakespeare Library has a historical legacy tied to anti-immigrant and white exceptionalist sentiments, reflected in its founding leadership and early rhetoric.
He said that “the first director of the library, Joseph Quincy Adams” saw the institution as “a preservation of the language of the American people at a time when immigrants are coming in like locusts to steal our culture, to steal our language.”
“This is the way he imagined immigration,” Espinosa said.
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Idiots.
I work with some zoomers at my part time job. Hyper emotional, stupid, and innappropriate most of the time. They’re always reading insults into anything I say — while at the same time being nasty, insulting and childish.
As a GenXer, they are constantly taking offense at my facial expressions (I’m German, I invented resting B*tch face) and complaining about how “mean” i am, but can never explain why.
To quote Bender from Futureama, “We’re boned.”
Yeah lets boost John the Black African slave street urchin as a literary voice of the time, especially since John could neither read or write. Excellent choice.
Two faculty members condemned “white ownership” of Shakespeare
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You’d almost think neither of them ever read Shakespeare.
Yes. But they want to suppress and control it. They really can’t stand it that many people actually are silently laughing at their constituency’s mutilation of the English language.
Many examples:
Use of ‘conversated’ instead of ‘conversed’
Same thing with ‘commented’
Constant emphasis on the wrong syllables (e.g., govern-MENT, employ-MENT, etc.)
“English Professor Ruben Espinosa”
Um, the problem is evident.
Illogic is why Mexico looks the way it does.
And Republicans will still continue to fully fund these bastions of communism.
?? Say What..? The perception of Shakespeare.? What is it that they’re protesting? The fact that Shakespeare was white?? Maybe they want to burn his books, ban his writings?? They want history to say that he was black?
Dearest rubin...you are a pampered self-loathing nitwit. You should resign in disgrace today as you have proven that your salary really is a from of welfare to help your inadequate self survive in this “White-based” country.
These people never quit.
How about if something is good, it’s good.
If it’s not good, its not good.
And just leave it at that.
You know...like a normal person would evaluate things.
I remember what was said back in the 1960s.
“If you put a group of monkeys in a room with typewriters and leave them alone, over time they would eventually type out the entire works of William Shakespeare.”
Images
by Tyrone Greene
Dark and lonely on the summer night.
Kill my landlord, kill my landlord.
Watchdog barking - Do he bite?
Kill my landlord, kill my landlord.
Slip in his window,
Break his neck!
Then his house
I start to wreck!
Got no reason —
What the heck!
Kill my landlord, kill my landlord.
C-I-L-L ...
My land - lord ...
Maybe the school will want to include classics like this in the curriculum LOL!
Well indoctrintaed fools, and dangerous that they have the roles they do in academia.
But Shakespeare WAS exceptional.
Where’s the black stabber bitch?
Is espinoza an immigrant ?
Because I am against him
The state of Arizona made a boo-boo when they let these idiots into the state university . They should’ve sent them to the state insane asylum
Imagine making it your life’s work to be so resentful and angry - trying to destroy things other people created.
There is no reasoning, arguing or debating with such a person. Hope the ASU’s donors get a good dose of this anti-White “professor’s” ramblings and his lefty ideology. I’d never donate another penny to that institution.
Hey they learned from Obama’s Bridgerton that the royals of England are black.
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