Timothy Birdnow

The British plan to "decolonize" Shakespeare's birthplace to make it less Western Civilizationy and more "incluside".

You can't make this stuff up!

Shakespeare is the epitome of Western Civilizational values and it was his very universal understanding that is what made him great - and Western Civilization is great because of his ideas and the ideas of like-minded people whom we have elevated. Ideas like "diversity" and "inclusiveness" came out of the works of such as Shakespeare (just read Othello) and would never have appeared in any non-Western thinker's work.

The trust that manages the place decided Shakespeare was too much an old white dude to be promoted by them:

It comes amid an ongoing backlash against the writer. Some productions of his works have been slappwarnings 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.

The project said this narrative has caused harm, and advised that the trust stop saying Shakespeare was the 'greatest' but part of a community of 'equal and different' writers globally.

So a trust dedicated to Shakespeare want to demote the great poet and playwrite because, well, he's just too white and Eurocentric. This is rather like the Pope saying Jesus was too Jewish, or too white and heterosexual.

The article continues:

So when Iago calls Othello "thick lip" I suppose we are going to remove that because it's not Inclusive enough? Even though Iago's attitude toward Othello was intended to show him to be the bad guy.

So they call Shakespeare "outdated and offensive"; isn't that for the public to decide? If DEI is so all-fired popular why hide the older thinking? Why not let the people decide?

Because they are trying to change society in a fundamental way and they want to erase anything that shows there WAS another way of thinking. This is an attempt at mind control. The Soviets did this after the Bolshevik revolution in Russia; simply erased the past. George Orwell spoke of this. So too did Aldous Huxley. Erasing the past is what tyrants do.

Shakespeare is a tough nut for them to crack. He is unquestionably the greatest figure in literary history so they have to go at this slowly and methodically. Start subtly editing his prose. Restrict the teaching of Shakespeare in schools. Take things dedicated to him and use that as a platform for their own ideas. Little by little erase the Great Bard and eventually he will be forgotten entirely.

That is the plan and that is what they are doing here. They are dissing the guy in his own house.

The Left are nothing but civilizational vandals.

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