Posted on 08/31/2017 8:27:55 AM PDT by Kaslin
"The Bard," William Shakespeare, had a healthy distrust of the sort of mob hysteria typified by our current epidemics of statue-busting and name-changing.
In Shakespeare's tragedy "Julius Caesar" -- a story adopted from Plutarch's "Parallel Lives" -- a frenzied Roman mob, in furor over the assassination of Julius Caesar, encounters on the street a poet named Cinna. The innocent poet was not the conspiratorial assassin Cinna, but unfortunately shared a name with the killer.
The terrified poet points out to the mob this case of mistaken identity: "I am Cinna the poet."
The mob answers: "Tear him for his bad verses, tear him for his bad verses! ... It is no matter, his name's Cinna!"
Shakespeare certainly would recognize that, like the playwright's Roman mob, we have launched a war against words in our frenzy to find targets for our politically correct madness.
Recently, there were progressive calls at the University of Southern California to rename the school's mascot, the white Andalusian horse "Traveler." Members of the left thought that the mute animal's name too closely resembled the name "Traveller," the favorite horse of Confederate general and sudden demon of 2017 Robert E. Lee.
But the mob was not finished there. An Asian-American sportscaster named Robert Lee was recently yanked by the sports channel ESPN from broadcasting a University of Virginia football game. Apparently, Lee's name was too close to that of Robert E. Lee.
Nearly a century and a half after his death, General Lee has gone from tragic figure to Public Enemy No. 1 of the left.
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....Next thing you know they’ll be attacking Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry and Calculus as being tools of white supremacy...
That was part of an interview Tucker bad with a teacher group spokeswoman last night. But, a large part of it was when She said there was more than one way to teach math and that they were not taught earlier because there wasn’t enough paper. To which, Tucker pointed out that 1+1=2 will always be the easiest way.
Yes, if you want to keep your social justice credentials spic and span. It could be a chink in your armor and slant people against you. People could get spooked, and the jig would be up.
I counted five. Well done.
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