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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Shakespeare is 'racist' is not trolling, there are numerous academic works making this claim to a various degree. Read this statement from last year from the English Department at University of Chicago:

"English as a discipline has a long history of providing aesthetic rationalizations for colonization, exploitation, extraction, and anti-Blackness. Our discipline is responsible for developing hierarchies of cultural production that have contributed directly to social and systemic determinations of whose lives matter and why."

This is just the surface, look into it if you still doubt it.
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Sigh. This is not saying Shakespeare is racist. What is racist is having children read only white authors or when we do include POC it’s just about all the horrible things they had to go through. How do you think a black student might feel if they only thing they see themselves in is slavery??

Please stop being obtuse on purpose. It is absolutely trolling to say Shakespeare as a whole is racist. [/quote]

You are guilty of what you are accusing me of. Can you point where anyone said children should read only white authors, or only literature about horrible things happening to non-white people? 
If you are saying there is no underlying current to change the canon, you are denying the obvious. think about it, why would anyone say English is responsible for cultural hierarchies? It is part of the post-modernism sweep that is fashionable academia, the focus on critical studies, it is how the phrase dead white men came about. It's also the next culture war, whether we like it or not. Unfortunately it will unfold at the voting booth and through the legal system.[/quote]

Never accused anyone here of that lol. Only that the creation of this thread shows what you think is important. None (a general none so you don’t cry) of you have ever advocated for more diverse authors in this forum. And there are MULTIPLE responses in this and other threads stating things that have a racist undertone.

No teaching children about white privilege because it’ll teach my child that white people are alllll bad.
Suspend children with trauma (who are often poc) because I don’t understand the school to prison pipeline.
Keep schools with in boundary kids only in NW, ie majority white, even though the area is definitely gentrified.

Man, this thread is getting boring. 
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Actually, several of us have advocated for adding more diverse authors to the curriculum. I was one of them. Do you just not agree because I also stated we should keep a Shakespeare play?

We agree on one thing. This thread has gotten boring.[/quote]

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