Cancelling Will S.

American Thinker ^ | 25 Feb, 2021 | Phyllis Chesler

[MtnClimber]

“Woke” culture is hardly even awake. It is a devouring force that means to eviscerate all excellence that has come before: The Greek classics. Chaucer. Milton. These authors are all white cisgender Western men -- enough said.

A friend and I were wondering how long it would be before the Bard would also be cancelled. We did not have long to wait.

In an article in the School Library Journal, librarian Amanda MacGregor conceded that Shakespeare was a “genius wordsmith” but that his work is full of “problematic, outdated ideas, with plenty of misogyny, racism, homophobia, classism, anti-Semitism, and misogynoir.”

I do not know what “misogynoir” is. Might it refer to Fifty Shades of Grey which, as I understand it, does not even reach the shiny silver boot buckle of The Story of O.

[MtnClimber]

The ironic thing is that the wokesters are the group that will be least able to survive when they collapse society.

[PghBaldy]

Well one of their “leaders” threatened to nuke the rest of us, so there is that option for them.

[PIF]

“Woke” culture is the mirror images of Mao’s Great Leap Backward wherein all things Chinese were destroyed - this time its all things American.

Once this is accomplished, it will be a simple matter to create any culture deemed controllable just as the Chinese Maoists did.

[PghBaldy]

(in response to people saying there would be “war” if the govt. tried confiscating guns)

“And it would be a short war my friend. The government has nukes. Too many of them. But they’re legit. I’m sure if we talked we could find common ground to protect our families and communities.”

— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) November 16, 2018

[rlmorel]

"...I’m sure if we talked we could find common ground to protect our families and communities..."

I'm sure we could talk with him and his Communist brethren.

But statist traitors like Eric Swalwell and his comrades wouldn't much like the common ground we might find ourselves to protect us and our country from the like of him.

[Sirius Lee]

I do not know what “misogynoir” is.

I think it's Miss O'GyNoir. Tranny. Black Irish.

[dangus]

Fairfax County Public Schools, in what used to the be the Republican side of the Potomac, now prohibits any book written by someone who isn’t a racial minority or transexual.

[Buttons12]

I don’t know anyone my age who has studied Shakespeare, or even has had direct exposure to a Shakespeare play. Millennials are mostly illiterate.
And even if they brushed against the Bard’s work in public school, it would have made no impression.
I studied Shakespeare in homeschool. This took several years of hard attention, plus materials not to be found in the typical home, plus an excellent teacher. I had, at the time I was still learning basic math, a collection of recordings called Living Shakespeare, which my mother had acquired long before I came along. With the records came booklets containing both the full script and an abridged version. Even in my late teens I always read both. Then I was given commentaries and critiques from authors (mainly dead white Western men) who loved Shakespeare, deplored him, understood him, misunderstood him...
It takes a long time and a deep dive into the literature, to “get” Shakespeare, and my contemporaries haven’t the time to spare, nor the inclination.
Nor do I expect the next generation will be any better in this regard. The joy of Shakespeare is mine, but like the joy of Latin, it’s heading for the dustbin of history.

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

Indeed, the true irony of the day. Today’s woke culture claims enlightenment while it is mostly unaware of the vast knowledge and experience of the past.

[Sans-Culotte]

I don’t know anyone my age who has studied Shakespeare, or even has had direct exposure to a Shakespeare play. Millennials are mostly illiterate. And even if they brushed against the Bard’s work in public school, it would have made no impression. I studied Shakespeare in homeschool. This took several years of hard attention, plus materials not to be found in the typical home, plus an excellent teacher. I had, at the time I was still learning basic math, a collection of recordings called Living Shakespeare, which my mother had acquired long before I came along.

I was into Shakespeare before we ever studied a play of his in school (we did Romeo & Juliet and Julius Caesar; can't remember which grades). I watched the 1953 film of Julius Caesar on the Late Show one night and became hooked on Shakespeare and his language. I was amazed that I was able to follow the language even though some of the words and phrases and are no longer in use. The key was that the brilliant cast (James Mason, Marlon Brando, John Gielgud, et al) knew how to read verse in such a way that it was easily understood. I followed that with a film version of Hamlet from 1969 starring Nicol Williamson and later Orson Welles' Macbeth.

I also had some of those Living Shakespeare records. There used to be a company called Publishers Central Bureau that sold closeouts of books and records. I bought a 10-disc set of those. While they were heavily truncated, they had many great Shakespearian actors of the day in some of the roles like Richard Burton as Henry V, Peter O'Toole as Petruchio, Michael Redgrave as Richard II and Hamlet, Donald Wolfit as King Lear, etc. I have since downloaded all of them from Youtube.

I wish we had watched some of the great Shakespeare films in school (early to mid 1970's) rather than trying to read them aloud. I doubt the students got anything out of reading them that way.

[SunkenCiv]

"When sorrows come, they come not single spies. But in battalions!" -- William Shakespeare, Hamlet

[Pelham]

I’m old enough to remember when we kept the liberals on the other side of the Potomac. Mostly.

[Red Badger]

My HS English teacher made us read Romeo & Juliet, Hemmingway’s “The Sun Also Rises”, and Salinger’s “Catcher in the Rye”................

My HS English teacher was a Sadist...................

[a fool in paradise]

>>I do not know what “misogynoir” is. Might it refer to Fifty Shades of Grey which, as I understand it, does not even reach the shiny silver boot buckle of The Story of O.

People tried telling me what a good singer/songwrite The Weekend was because he had a song in the Fifty Shades of Grey porno soundtrack.

[a fool in paradise]

Tell her/shim/it that the roles of women were played by men in Shakespeare’s original productions.

[a fool in paradise]

We are headed for the Age of Disillusionment as people eventually discover that their Red Communist leaders have sold them a false bill of goods in this New World USSA.

dis·il·lu·sion·ment
noun
“a feeling of disappointment resulting from the discovery that something is not as good as one believed it to be.” (Oxford)

[SunkenCiv]

[singing] Romeo and Juliet, Samson and Delilah...

[monocle]

When will the woke culture start ditching their cell phones which are products of mainly of non black peoples’ efforts.

[Grampa Dave]

Predictable..

See my tagline.