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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At least they recognize excellence of language.
Sigh, how does one argue against such massive idiocy?
Just flip that ignorant faculty the bird and carry on.
With a smile.
Just do what they did to Hamilton. If it’s good there’s money for the pimps of this product.
LOL “scholars”
Clearly a case of cultural appreciation of our Anglo-Saxon Heritage! I demand reparations!!
” ah, bruh, ain’t d’at Shakesspeare cat
from England? whasamatteru? din’ d’at guy give dah woild ways of sayin’ ah fung goo?? y’all jus’ too uptight wi’d yo’ bag of no matters!
I wonder what they think of Louis Armstrong or Dizzy Gillespie or Scott Joplin?
Has this idiot even read Othello?
Well, I must say, the constant whining of the race hustlers never ceases to annoy me.
It’s the same old problem: they are jealous of white achievement. Period.
In the past, leftist revisionists simply ignored Shakespeare
altogether, ignoring his foundational importance to the English language and to literature. What is this now... an attempt at “cultural appropriation”? ASU is my Alma Mater, but these idiots do not rise above the cracks in Palm Walk.
I have more respect for the termites in the Palms, as they have made more of a cultural contribution in their time.
BTTT
I’ve read several business reports here in the past week detailing how companies are firing and refusing to ever hire more Gen Z college graduates. This article illustrates why that is so.
How and Why do we allow those with mental health problems to be near an educational institution?
Scholars = Starbucks barista
We wuz Elizabethan playritez n sheeeit.
And they should just stop blaming them and start taking responsibility for their own lives and actions.
That’s right.
How now wit? Wither wander you?
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