Just easin' on down the misappropriated road...
One student commented: “White washing still exists, it’s been done enough in Hollywood, look at Liz Taylor in Cleopatra.”
Dumbass student Cleopatra was Greek so yes Liz Taylor playing her is more accurate than some Arab or Black actress.
Idiots, morons and imbeciles...................
If all the non-whites were serious about cultural appropriation, they would stop using electricity and driving cars.
Oh, I left out IGNORAMUSES.................
And white bands can no longer play music written by blacks or white singers sing songs written by blacks. Just to be fair you know.
Civilization is under siege.
The folks who can do little more than beat jungle drums are jealous of all that Western Civilization has achieved. We have Verdi, the Louvre, the Sistine Chapel. They have mud huts.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ignoramus
Did You Know?
Ignoramus is the title of a farce by George Ruggle (1575-1622) that was first produced in 1615. The title character, whose name in Latin literally means “we do not know,” is a lawyer who fancies himself to be quite shrewd but is actually foolish and ignorant. Ruggle may have been inspired in his choice of name for his character by a proceeding in the English judicial system. The term ignoramus was written on bills of indictment when the evidence presented seemed insufficient to justify prosecution. In these cases ignoramus indicated “we take no notice of (i.e., we do not recognize) this indictment.” Such a reference would have been most appropriate for Ruggle’s satire of the judiciary.
I guess no one in England will ever get the chance to see Orson Wells play Othello. I’m sure that movie has been banned.
Let’s all go back to cave man days....too much cultural appropriation going on otherwise. (These people are crazee...must be too much inbreeding going on)
Precisely the commie brain washing in the universities is pathetic
We need to be sympathetic to this charge, and quit listening to and watching black entertainers. (Except Charlie Pride - he appropriated ‘White’ music, so we can still listen to him.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRIRTQ_k-Sg
So the opera standard ‘Aida’, set in Egypt, is politically incorrect. Bring out the fainting couches for Gilbert & Sullivan’s ‘The Mikado’!
Idiots! The opera is basically an indictment of slavery. Did they not even trouble to read a synopsis?
Whitewashing indeed - where was the fuss about cultural appropriation when Kathleen Battle played Zerlina in Marriage of Figaro?
I’m catching a breeze from all the knees jerking nowadays.
What part of kick their asses out does the administration not understand?
Oh, forgot, the only group dumber than the lib arts types is the administration.
Wanna guess the majors of the admin goons?
Actually, this is a good thing. Libtards should confine themselves to nothing but readings of Maya Angelou. Nothing else. Sort of like feeding Raid to cockroaches.
One would think that a university student would know that.
Incidentally, during the 275 years in which they ruled Egypt, the Ptolemaic kings and queens spoke Macedonian Greek. Except for Cleopatra, none of them even bothered to learn Egyptian, the language spoken by their subjects.
Yep and the character Othello isn’t a sub-Sharan African. He’s a Berber and Berbers are Caucasian.
You know what’s scary? I, (and I imagine a large segment of society, as well), have now been bashed over the head long and hard enough with the term ‘cultural appropriation’, that I have finally begun to truly grok what Hermann Göring meant, when he was quoted as saying: “Wenn ich ‘kultur’ höre, entischere ich meinen Browning!” (badly translated as “Whenever I hear the word ‘culture’, that’s when I reach for my revolver.” That particular phrase also spawned a punk song with the same title by Mission of Burma, which was later covered by Moby.
I really HAVE reached the point, where hearing the phrase ‘cultural appropriation’ makes me want to reach for a revolver.
Just easin' on down the misappropriated road...
I look forward to the day when one of these places realizes it’s really better to start cancelling the students instead.
So presumably this is the Elton John/Tim Rice musical, not the Verdi opera?
You know what is sad but I guess sort of amusing is that these performers I’m pretty sure are not exactly conservatives...and Elton John is...well...pretty into the whole “diversity” thing. The left is eating its own here. (Regardless, I really do feel for the performers who worked their asses off and their work gets smashed b/c of the feelings of people who have invested NOTHING in the production....truly, truly unjust).
With regards to the Aida musical, I saw it many years ago, and Mickey Dolenz played one of the lead rolls. I was like, “HEY! That guy is HUGE! He was in the Monkees!”. But his playbill write up did NOT mention it! I guess he was sort of trying to rise up above his Monkees days. That drove me nuts.
Recently, however, I have notieced that Mickey has toured with the other surviving band members, after Davey’s death. So I guess he has come to grips with “once a Monkee, always a Monkee”....and I think that’s a good thing.
In any event. Aida (both Verdi, and Elton) is a great work which needs to be performed more. Not less.
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