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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Diversity cult coming for Shakespeare
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2025 16:50:51 -0400
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On 3/20/2025 3:55 PM, Rhino wrote:
> On 2025-03-20 2:45 PM, moviePig wrote:
>> On 3/20/2025 12:10 PM, Rhino wrote:
>>> William Shakespeare is apparently so "problematic" that activists are 
>>> working hard to "de-colonize" him. Leo Kearse explains:
>>>
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuNgnoBSXAA [18 minutes]
>>>
>>> As Kearse points out, it is *extremely* ironic that the people in the 
>>> Shakespeare Trust, who are supposed to be fans of his work, are the 
>>> ones trying to "de-colonize" him. With "friends" like that, who needs 
>>> enemies?
>>
>> Shakespeare was a playwright and poet.  His actual verbiage is what we 
>> admire, rather than whatever philosophy we might gratuitously infer 
>> from it.  "Polishing" his words would be like applying CGI to the Mona 
>> Lisa.
>>
>>
> Who are you and what have you done with the real moviePig? The real 
> moviePig would NEVER oppose a "progressive" re-thinking of Shakespeare!

The real moviePig has yet to see any bowdlerizing as progress.