Friday, May 02, 2025

Shakespeare's Birthplace will be De-colonized

The London Daily Mail reports:
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'. ...

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. ...

'Shakespeare's works are full of problematic, outdated ideas, with plenty of misogyny, racism, homophobia, classism, anti-Semitism and misogynoir,' she wrote, with the last word referring to a hatred of black women.

This is just White hatred.

Hillsdale College has a lecture on The Rise of Anti-White Racism | Jeremy Carl. At least he is not ashamed to be White.

1 comment:

CFT said...

If Edward De Vere was alive, and still writing, he would probably have said:
"My lady bitch-ith far too much. Lay quiet thy noisy neither eye that oft parades as lips not near so sweet, for thou art a jealous shrew."

William Shakspar never wrote a single line of doggerel, much less a play or sonnet. He was demonstratably illiterate by evidence he could not write his own name, and actually signed "X" on several of his earlier legal documents, indicating he could not spell his own name. He did however, work at The Globe for one mysterious benefactor who had the nick name "Spear-shaker" which is taken to mean, 'Athena the spear shaker', a title attributed to Athena the renaissance patron of arts and learning, as well as the fact De Vere's coat of arms featured a lion brandishing a spear.

It does piss me off that an angry woman of limited brains proudly pens a document lambasting the greatest writer of the English language because he makes her feel bad. This is almost like a skit lifted out of the movie 'The Adventures of Baron Munchausen' where the city ruler has a solider executed because he is so heroic and highly competent, he made other ordinary men feel deficient. Yes, what a splendid idea, let's remove remarkable people from history so we can feel better about ourselves, sheer brilliance!
Fie on mediocre shrews and their bitter sentiments.

“vultus tela vibrat,...” attributed to Edward De Vere 17th Earl of Oxford
Gabriel Harvey