UK: University Cancels Sonnets Because They're a Product of 'White Western Culture'

[Kamaji]

University Cancels Sonnets Because They're a Product of 'White Western Culture'

By Alex Parker
May 19, 2022

Are you revolted by the racism of rhyme? Are you put off by the prejudice of iambic pentameter? If so, the University of Salford might be for you.

The Greater Manchester, England school recently took stock of its literary licentiousness, and as a result, it sunsetted sonnets.

Per university documents, the public institution nixed “pre-established literary forms” from a creative writing exam, because they’re a product of whiteness.

In order to ax oppression, Salford aims to “decolonize the curriculum.”

Some may not have realized sonnets were sinister, but one might only digest the definition in order to peer into perniciousness.

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Source:  https://redstate.com/alexparker/2022/05/19/university-cancels-sonnets-because-theyre-a-product-of-white-western-culture-n567152

[The_Reader_David]

Makes me want to write one for the first time in decades.  When I was a student, I wrote sonnets as love poems to the woman I eventually married. 

Have they nixed haiku and tanka as well?  Hardly the products of "white" culture.

I wrote those, too, and for a while amused myself by reworking literal English translations of classical Japanese haiku into English haiku with more or less the same sense.

[Kamaji]

Makes me want to write one for the first time in decades.  When I was a student, I wrote sonnets as love poems to the woman I eventually married. 

Have they nixed haiku and tanka as well?  Hardly the products of "white" culture.

I wrote those, too, and for a while amused myself by reworking literal English translations of classical Japanese haiku into English haiku with more or less the same sense.

With that resume, you'll be lucky if you aren't convicted of those two leftist sins of white supremacism and cultural misappropriation!

[The_Reader_David]

With that resume, you'll be lucky if you aren't convicted of those two leftist sins of white supremacism and cultural misappropriation!

Even worse, I'm a mathematician!  And we all know mathematics is racist.

[Kamaji]

Even worse, I'm a mathematician!  And we all know mathematics is racist.

Indeed!

[andy58-in-nh]

Democracy and representative government are both "products of white Western culture".

What's the "decolonization" plan for those?

[Kamaji]

Democracy and representative government are both "products of white Western culture".

What's the "decolonization" plan for those?

That would be the Bidet (mal)administration in action.

[mountaineer]

They all - Shakespeare, Donne, Chaucer, all of them - will be cancelled by the end of this year.