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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Shen Yun website specifically references spirituality, specific Eastern religions, and the oppression of Falun Dafa due to their beliefs. Why would you assume this production should be completely secular? It's not the role of the Kennedy Center to censor or provide warnings about religious content, or any content with which you may not agree.[/quote]

How many times do you “research” a production company before booking something at the Kennedy Center. Most reasonable adults assume that TKC doesn’t promote cults. 
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NP: I do.  If I’m going to see a play, or dance performance, I look up reviews. If I’m going to hear music, I look up reviews and see if there are videos up on YouTube. Something would have to spark my interest before I’d order the tickets, so it would be on me if I decided to order tickets for a performance based on zero information.

The OP apparently tried Google, so I can only encourage them to realize that if I had the kinds of concerns that the OP does, even a cursory glance at the most easily found information would have nudged me to dig a little deeper to determine what all of the readily available to the point of being in-your-face references to things like “divine beings dancing” might mean. The OP “doesn’t want to let it go.” I’m not really sure what that means. Do they want to warn others —who, like them, are easily stunned and fail to do adequate research? Get a refund for the tickets they bought without knowing what they were buying? Blame the Kennedy Center for not screening their wide range of varied offerings according to the OP’s personal and idiosyncratic preferences? Something else?

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The KC descriptions/videos are sufficient for every show I’ve seen.

Why can’t TKC provide an accurate description? What’s the issue with wanting that? 
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I told you what I would do. If, according to you, the KC descriptions are “sufficient for every show you’ve seen”  — then[b] I’d guess that the descriptions of this show are sufficient for the vast majority of people who go to see the show[/b].  It’s on you, if you have a particular idiosyncratic concern, to do whatever research you feel you need to do. It’s not up to the KC to magically provide what you personally would consider an “accurate description “— because of your personal concerns. The “issue with wanting that” is that you seem to expect something magically tailored to your particular needs.
tldr: They did their bit. [/quote]

Clearly the description isn’t sufficient which is why this we have this thread. This show is an anomaly. 
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I’m thinking that the OP —or at least their expectation— is the anomaly. The show has been to the area before, possibly even at the Kennedy Center. If multiple people felt the description was inadequate and brought this to the attention of KC staff, my guess is that it would have been addressed by now, and the materials would have been changed to reflect that.  [/quote]

Or it was a business decision to not change it because if they did they wouldn’t fill as many seats. 
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Do you have any evidence at all that other people are either as displeased as the OP, or as likely to forego even the most basic research for tickets they are purchasing?  It really isn’t a good “business decision “ to bring in a performance THAT HAS BEEN IN THE AREA MANY TIMES BEFORE if people not only dislike it but feel somehow deceived, so kind of an unlikely strategy for a venue as experienced as the Kennedy Center.  It’s far more likely that the OP is the anomaly.

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Most people wouldn’t want to see religious propaganda pushed by Trumphumpers. 
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So, no evidence beyond your own opinion. Got it. [/quote]

81M+ people rejected RWNJs in 2020. 
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