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Students rip down Shakespeare portrait at UPenn
« on: December 12, 2016, 06:39:37 pm »
Students rip down Shakespeare portrait at UPenn
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Students at the University of Pennsylvania removed a portrait of Shakespeare from a prominent location in the school’s English department after complaining that he did not represent a diverse range of writers.

The Department had previously voted to remove the painting, so students took matters into their own hands, replacing the portrait with one of an African American writer and delivering Shakespeare to the Department Chair's office.

http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=8521
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Re: Students rip down Shakespeare portrait at UPenn
« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2016, 06:49:50 pm »
Erasing history to replace it with another vision of history.

Nothing new under the sun.

It just happens in places a people believe it cannot happen again.



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Re: Students rip down Shakespeare portrait at UPenn
« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2016, 07:17:29 pm »
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replacing the portrait with one of an African American writer
REALLY representing a diverse range of writers.  **nononono*
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Re: Students rip down Shakespeare portrait at UPenn
« Reply #3 on: December 12, 2016, 07:20:12 pm »
How would one person's portrait reflect diversity
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Re: Students rip down Shakespeare portrait at UPenn
« Reply #4 on: December 12, 2016, 07:21:18 pm »
Quote from: mountaineer on December 12, 2016, 07:17:29 pm
REALLY representing a diverse range of writers.  **nononono*

Oh, but she was diverse.  Audre Lorde, "a self-described “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet....”

What's amazing to me is the degree to which tenured professors -- who presumably know stuff about the subjects they teach (my daughter's did... different school, but still) -- are kowtowing to a small group of loud and ignorant fools.
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