Shakespeare's birthplace to be 'de-colonised' over fears his success 'benefits the ideology of white European supremacy'

Daily Mail UK ^ | 03 16 2025 | EMILY JANE DAVIES

[yesthatjallen]

William Shakespeare's birthplace will be de-colonised over fears that portraying his success as the 'greatest' playwright 'benefits the ideology of white European supremacy'.

Shakespeare's Birthplace Trust owns buildings in the playwright's hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon.

It wants to 'create a more inclusive museum experience' and announced it will move away from Western perspectives after concerns were raised that Shakespeare's ideas were used to advance 'white supremacy' ideas.

The trust also said that some of its items could contain language or depictions that are racist, sexist, or homophobic.

It comes amid an ongoing backlash against the writer. Some productions of his works have been slapped with trigger warnings for misogyny, racism and 'problematic radicalised dynamics' that link whiteness to beauty.

In 2022, a research project between the trust and Dr Helen Hopkins at the University of Birmingham postulated that the idea of Shakespeare's 'universal' genius 'benefits the ideology of white European supremacy'.

This is because European culture is portrayed as the standard for high art and the playwright as a symbol of British 'superiority', according to The Telegraph.

SNIP

[dfwgator]

Europe is dead.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Those Fruit Loops Euro Peeons.

[PGR88]

Trump is right to view London-Brussels-Davos globohomo marxism as the new threat to the USA.

[MtnClimber]

They are surrendering to the jihad.

[Deo volente]

Europe will be a prize possession of the islamists if they don’t wake up to reality, and soon. Britain and France are already pretty much lost.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

To "de-colonise" Shakespeare's birthplace you would have to ask all the brown people and anything that was not English to stay out.

For the love of mike. Words do mean things.

If you are adding other cultures in you are actually "Colonizing".

[drwoof]

Not an “Ideology”. A fact.

[Third Person]

White supremacy

the proof is in the pudding

the truth is a hard pill to swallow, for many

[PhiloBedo]

WTF is wrong with you people.

[nopardons]

England … once a mighty empire; now a rapidly disappearing, dying shallow shell .

[Jamestown1630]

LOL! And it’s hilarious that a trust devoted to Shakespeare’s memory doesn’t see that.

[plain talk]

"for the love of mike. Words do mean things."

[verum ago]

"De-colonising" the English home of an Englishman in England.

It's just blatant racism* at this point. Nothing more, nothing less. Certain people cannot accept that someone who happened to be of a certain racial and ethnic heritage was the best at what they did, even if that person died 400+ years ago.

Pathetic. And repulsive.

*I refuse to call it "reverse racism" or "anti-white racism", because that plays into the identity-obsessed leftist horsesh*t that spawned this crap in the first place. It's just simple racism, and deserves to be condemned, and disdained, as such.

[Robert DeLong]

I think the are dying because of the leadership, not the people who are natives, but they because the leadership is allowing Europe to be colonized. I think they are also running rigged sham elections.

[TangoLimaSierra]

The UK is going to have to nut up and bar any Muslims from holding public office.

They are on the brink of going Sharia law.

[Carl Vehse]

When England and the rest of Great Britain sink into a DEI woketardian abyss, the U.S. should not bother to save it.

Decades from now, the barren island might be a suitable place to bury high-level nuclear waste, or even industrial waste.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Utter mediocrities ooze resentment.

[laconic]

A plain reading of Othello or The Merchant of Venice would conclude that Shakespeare was hundreds of years ahead of his times in deftly combatting stereotypes about black and Jewish people. And these leftist idiots want to change his message?? This lunacy is what we avoided by electing Trump.

[Billthedrill]

Woke language Nazis do their thing, as usual. It isn’t censorship and cultural oppression when they do it.