Woke teachers want Shakespeare cut from curriculum: 'This is about White supremacy'

Washington Timed ^ | February 15. 2021 | Jane's Varney

[C19fan]

The crown teachers once put on Shakespeare now lies uneasy upon his head as the English playwright comes under assault from teachers who fault his un-woke attitudes regarding race, sexuality, gender and class.

For the new breed of teachers, William Shakespeare is seen less as an icon of literature and more as a tool of imperial oppression, an author who should be dissected in class or banished from the curriculum entirely.

[C19fan]

These revolutionaries want to destroy our cultural memory to recreate New Woke Man. I find it amusing what I enjoy reading is considered subversive in today's messed up world. These anarsonists are going after all the greats from the Western Canon.

[hoe_cake]

and again, I quote my father, who had a great vocabulary and was a gentleman, but would say to such nonsense “Horse shit”.

[KarlInOhio]

If Whiteness is the problem, how about if we get rid of Jane Austen and Sappho?

[Darteaus94025]

Just teach finger painting and sex ed.

[Darteaus94025]

And Ellen - got to get rid of her!

[packagingguy]

At the time there were probably less than 1,000 non-Europeans in all of England. Can’t be racist to people you don’t know exist.

[hinckley buzzard]

This began decades ago. I remember when they were all just “dead white males” maybe around 1970-1975 more or less. Or, “hey hey ho ho western civ has got to go.” Like a progressive illness, the left never sleeps and never stops.

[Fungi]

Education? We need no stinking education!
Shakespeare had a 28,000 word vocabulary. Ebonics will do for these clowns.

[atomic_dog]

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

Whites become the Jews before WW2 right before our eyes. And don’t try to argue or big media will silence you.

[ground_fog]

This is straight from the pits of hell.

[EEGator]

So not once more unto the breach?...

[rigelkentaurus]

Proles don’t need an education.

[EEGator]

We wuz kangz!

[Travis McGee]

Did somebody say "white supremacy?"

[a fool in paradise]

It’s nothing a thousand monkeys banging away randomly on typewriters couldn’t have come up with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem

The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type any given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare. In fact, the monkey would almost surely type every possible finite text an infinite number of times. However, the probability that monkeys filling the entire observable universe would type a single complete work, such as Shakespeare’s Hamlet, is so tiny that the chance of it occurring during a period of time hundreds of thousands of orders of magnitude longer than the age of the universe is extremely low (but technically not zero).

In this context, “almost surely” is a mathematical term with a precise meaning, and the “monkey” is not an actual monkey, but a metaphor for an abstract device that produces an endless random sequence of letters and symbols. One of the earliest instances of the use of the “monkey metaphor” is that of French mathematician Émile Borel in 1913,[1] but the first instance may have been even earlier.

[Veggie Todd]

If these people are so uncomfortable being around whites and reading white authors, there is a whole continent filled with countries that are ruled by black people.

Oh, for the record, I'm offended by being called White. From now on I demand to be referred to as Caucasian-American.

[a fool in paradise]

>>If Whiteness is the problem, how about if we get rid of

Margaret Atwood
Susan Sontag
and so on

[sauropod]

That’s a little better than what I would have said.

[frank ballenger]

If Whiteness is the problem, how about if we get rid of Jane Austen and Sappho?

It is the problem. A while ago everyone laughed about "What'll they do, come for statues of George Washington?" Answer: Yes. Give them time.