Left-wing teachers are now demanding that Shakespeare is banned from classes due to his “white supremacy and colonization.”
Lorena German, National Council of Teachers of English Anti-Racism Committee chair and a co-founder of the #DisruptTexts, claims “everything about the fact that he was a man of his time is problematic about his plays. We cannot teach Shakespeare responsibly and not disrupt the ways people are characterized and developed.”
Zerohedge.com reports: We previously discussed how the portrait of William Shakespeare was removed at the University of Pennsylvania’s English Department as a statement for greater racial sensitivity and diversity. Students are increasingly being deprived of such foundational classics as “Romeo and Juliet,” “Macbeth,” “King Lear” or Richard III. These are works that are not only masterpieces but shaped generations of later works and continue to be referenced in modern writing. Yet, this is a movement that has been building since 1987 when Jesse Jackson led Stanford undergraduates chanting, “Hey, ho, Western Citv has got to go!”
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Amanda McGregor, a Minnesota-based librarian wrote in the January issue of School library journal that “Shakespeare’s work is full of problematic and outdated ideas, lots of misogyny, racism, homophobia, class discrimination, anti-Semitism, misogyny”
German insisted that Shakespeare “is not ‘universal’ in a way that other authors are not. He is not more ‘timeless’ than anyone else.”
Some teachers advocating replacing Shakespeare with such works as “Hunger Games.”
Shakespeare could have seen his coming when he wrote in As You Like It that “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.”
However, the exiting of Shakespeare will come at a terrible cost for our students. While Shakespeare appears the new rallying cry for woke teachers, he is “a man more sinned against than sinning.”
If he is stripped away from our reading lists, our students will be the poorer for it.
Niamh Harris
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Lorena German – GERMAN?? WELL, there’s your problem right there.
Leftie females seem to get dumber every day. Must be from repeated contact with the headboard while on their knees.
People font even get Shakespeare thanks to idiotic English teachers who wpuldny know a dirty joke of it bit them in the hum So slow And they think its all about being classy It was written to appeal to crowds of totally drunken oafs And I do believe QE1 wrote it really .For fun .To amuse oneself.
Sir Francis Bacon wrote all William Shakespeares works. Rosicrucian
Most public school teachers are Feminist, Militant Queer or a POC, pushing a self-serving diversity supremacist agenda.
Anything that is not pro-diversity privilege will be dismantled by these anti-intellectual, anti-science clowns.
I think m8st are rhe silent majority Empty vessels make the most noise. The loudmourgs and their megaphone Media Barons ,who amplify the rumblings of a tiny few to suit their political agenda are rhe problemnIts the few AElites who use them that are the trouble makers Alrhough it’s TRUE that the desire to make english the global language us intellectual imperialism absolutely Sanskrit is a far more advanced language ,french is more attractive, russian has the greatest mental scope ,and so on English is simple and easy and vulgar and common but they have beaten if their main rivals zthe French ,to impose english as rhe universal language But that’s not Shajespeare .People dont study Shakespeare at school any ore They might have to read one play maybe out of 12 years of school. It’s the wnglush language that is white supremacy but so are we going to speak Mandarin or Sanskrit or some African dialect ? English is the best all round Its simple and straight forward and easy to learn
I FIND IT ODD IN THIS ARTICLE HOW THESE EDUCATORS NEVER MENTIONED “OTHELLO”, A BLACK MOOR MARRIED TO A WHITE WOMAN. i MEAN, LET’S FACE IT, SHAKESPEARE IS AHEAD OF HIS TIME WHEN IT COMES TO THE CLUSRERFUCK LIBERALDUMMYCRAT’S SO-CALLED “REPARATIONS PROGRAM”‘
…and the negrification of America continues.
It’s the Progressive Marxists, They want to enslave everybody again. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/cbd6488ba2dfc6aea4f28c98bdf8c58fcdaa911c6d5b5b0f96e7359182ad3b43.jpg
I honestly did not get a lot of life lessons from Shakespeare. I am not against it or for it.
I think schools should teach children more practical things like reading writing and math, along with the constitution. Also it would be great if they were taught a similar course like OSHA safety in High School. Also self defense on the matts, and marksmanship and gun safety. Basic gardening and husbandry. I think each young adult needs to be exposed to these subjects with options to learn more about anything of interest.
Today’s HS grads can’t make change. In NJ, they take drivers ed, but can’t drive after that, they need more year of training to drive.