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‘Not a safe space’: Black cast members boycott Dickens Christmas Fair over failure to prevent racist, sexist behavior
SF Chronicle Datebook ^
| December 6, 2021
| Erin Feher
Posted on 12/07/2021 7:47:50 AM PST by C19fan
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When I lived in California I attended the Dickens Fair at the Cow Palace in San Francisco. I did dress up as a Victorian gentleman. These woksters never are satisfied are they. Now they are setting their sights on this 19th Century geek festival.
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posted on
12/07/2021 7:47:50 AM PST
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
That’s a shame. Life is tough for the let’s-dress-up set. Oh well.
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posted on
12/07/2021 7:50:44 AM PST
by
Steely Tom
([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
To: C19fan
I always enjoyed going. These people are Bah. Humbuhg
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posted on
12/07/2021 7:50:59 AM PST
by
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
To: C19fan
The wokesters can never be satisfied. Never give in on a single issue.
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posted on
12/07/2021 7:53:05 AM PST
by
Seruzawa
("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
To: C19fan
“ For Ari Yovel, who is autistic and transgender, the current conflict LoAD members are facing parallels their own struggle to advocate for marginalized communities within the fair. For years, Yovel advocated as a representative of the Order of the Golden Needle, a neurodivergent advocacy group, for a de-stimulation space within the fair, or “de-stim” room. “Each time, I was met with the sentiment that even though they took my requests very seriously, they just couldn’t possibly do anything about them. All the while, I was being paraded out as a poster child for how progressive and cooperative RBP (Red Barn Productions) were,” says Yovel, who is boycotting this year’s fair and is unsure if they will ever return.”
Progressives eating their own.
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posted on
12/07/2021 7:54:05 AM PST
by
Skywise
To: C19fan
Blacks doing a white play is cultural appropriation. Can we not have blacks doing Shakespeare or Dickens or anything else worth reading?
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posted on
12/07/2021 7:54:45 AM PST
by
HYPOCRACY
(This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
To: C19fan
Gee...I remember when parades were safe spaces.
To: C19fan
What constitutes racists, sexist behavior?
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posted on
12/07/2021 7:56:26 AM PST
by
sport
To: Skywise
A neurodivergent advocacy group?
Dedicatrd to the advancment of lunatics?
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posted on
12/07/2021 7:57:24 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
To: C19fan
Scanned the article.
It basically seems they are upset that Victorian England was full of mainly English people, who were largely white gentiles.
How stupidly liberal.
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posted on
12/07/2021 7:58:33 AM PST
by
Jewbacca
(The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
To: BookmanTheJanitor
The result of feral dogs not being locked up
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posted on
12/07/2021 7:59:11 AM PST
by
Vaduz
(women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
To: sport
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posted on
12/07/2021 7:59:17 AM PST
by
Jewbacca
(The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
To: C19fan
but when her husband, a Black man, started attending, she began to understand what the situation was like for attendees of color. Despite having a cast member pass, she says he was stopped at every security gate — not just by hired security officers, but also by fellow fair participants, and looked at with suspicion by vendors.
I call BS. In this day and age of cameras and smart phones, there is no proof any of this happened. And I would wager, that if an incident happened like that, she would have been the first to call tv stations and media to announce and broadcast the video of the heinous attack within minutes.
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posted on
12/07/2021 7:59:19 AM PST
by
wbarmy
(I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
To: Jewbacca
It’s mainly white liberals who complain about these things.
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posted on
12/07/2021 8:00:44 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Jewbacca
It stands to reason. The media, the Self Hating Whites, The White Elites, the Globalists all want to eradicate the Caucasian Race.
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posted on
12/07/2021 8:04:15 AM PST
by
sport
To: C19fan
Oh man the Dickens Fair is so fun. A yearly tradition for us until lockdown.
Now it is “drive through,” heck with that.
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posted on
12/07/2021 8:05:53 AM PST
by
Persevero
(You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
To: C19fan; Army Air Corps
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posted on
12/07/2021 8:06:27 AM PST
by
KC_Lion
To: C19fan
My daughter loved going to the Dicken’s Fair. We moved a 1 1/2 years ago, and the fair hasn’t restarted because of Covid. I hope they don’t ruin it.
To: HYPOCRACY
They graduate as functional illiterates. Makes Shakespere just that harder.
They organizers of the Dickens play could change the names of the two emaciated children shown to Scrooge by the Ghost of Christmas Present from ‘Ignorance’ and ‘Want’ to ‘Liberalism’ and ‘Racism’ for on their foreheads spells the word “SNOWFLAKES”.
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posted on
12/07/2021 8:07:24 AM PST
by
The MAGA-Deplorian
(. Democrats are lawless because Republicans are ball-less!)
To: C19fan
Wait a minute! All these claims of racism in THE most politically correct city in the country?
Do these people think it’s “white supremacist conservatives” visiting the Dickens Fair? Because if it’s locals, then the racists are progressives!
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posted on
12/07/2021 8:07:54 AM PST
by
Wiser now
(Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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