William Shakespeare ditched by woke teachers over ‘misogyny, racism’

[mystery-ak]

 William Shakespeare ditched by woke teachers over ‘misogyny, racism’

By Lee Brown

February 16, 2021 | 8:50am | Updated

William Shakespeare, thou hast been getting canceled.

An increasing number of woke teachers are refusing to study the Bard — accusing his classic works of promoting “misogyny, racism, homophobia, classism, anti-Semitism, and misogynoir.”

A slew of English literature teachers told the School Library Journal (SLJ) how they were ditching the likes of “Hamlet,” “Macbeth” and “Romeo and Juliet” to instead “make room for modern, diverse, and inclusive voices.”

“Shakespeare was a tool used to ‘civilize’ Black and brown people in England’s empire,” insisted Shakespeare scholar Ayanna Thompson, a professor of English at Arizona State University.

Teachers also need to “challenge the whiteness” of the assumption that Shakespeare’s works are “universal,” insisted Jeffrey Austin, who is head of a Michigan high school’s English literature department.

Former Washington state public school teacher Claire Bruncke told SLJ she banished the Bard from her classroom to “stray from centering the narrative of white, cisgender, heterosexual men.”

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[The_Reader_David]

They really need those excuses?  I thought for the woke it was enough for the author to be a dead white male to justify removal from the curriculum.  These must be moderate wokesters if they actually need content excuses for dropping Shakespeare.

[mountaineer]

He's not the only one. Classic literature from all eras is suspect.

Educators Organization Calls For Dr. Seuss’ Books to be Canceled for ‘Anti-Blackness, White Supremacy’
by Bobby Burack 7 minutes ago
updated 4 minutes ago   

Well, it happened. Sixty-four years after his creation, the Cat in the Hat turned into a racist.

For over 20 years, March 2 has been recognized as Read Across America Day in honor of Dr. Seuss’ birthday. Now, some useless, far-Left educator group known as Learning for Justice is “demanding” that Dr. Seuss be canceled because of his, wait for it, “racial undertones.” According to The Daily Wire, gutless-run school districts like Loudoun County Public Schools, one prominent in Virginia, are already taking the marching orders, telling its teachers to “avoid connecting Read Across America Day with Dr. Seuss.”  ...

Per The Daily Wire’s report, Learning for Justice claimed that Dr. Seuss’s books are riddled with “orientalism, anti-blackness, and white supremacy.” Got that? Too much anti-blackness, and white supremacy in Oh Say Can You Say?

That’s not all. After hours of reading, Learning for Justice found that too many of the non-white characters in Dr. Seuss’ literature are male.  ...

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