If moonbats prevail, future Britons will no longer have the IQ to produce another William Shakespeare. But at least no one can take the Bard of Avon away from them — unless he gets canceled for being Caucasian:
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, which owns his homes and some archival material linked to his birth, has been urged to “purge” its vast collections “of Anglocentric and colonialist thought”.
After academics raised concerns that venerating the writer could promote white supremacy, the trust has agreed to “create a more inclusive museum experience”.
Materials the museum is entrusted to preserve may be in danger:
The trust, which was established in 1847, has stated that the historical materials it holds may represent “values and stereotypes that are not consistent with the current values and practices” of its organisation. It has warned those who view its manuscripts and artefacts that they “may encounter language or depictions that are racist, sexist, homophobic, or otherwise harmful”.
How long tolerant liberals will allow the preservation of such manuscripts and artifacts remains to be seen.
The trust’s collections risk showcasing European culture as the world standard for high art, the project said, which was pushed through “colonial inculcation” and the use of Shakespeare as a symbol of “British cultural superiority”.
How dare people take pride in their culture? Wokeness requires them to despise their traditions and history, and to replace their culture with something no one could take pride in.
The museum denounces pride in Shakespeare’s greatness as “epistemic violence” that contributes to problematically “Anglocentric, Eurocentric, and increasingly ‘West-centric’ worldviews.”
King Lear's blind Gloucester could see where this is heading. Shakespeare himself committed the ultimate act of racism by being European. Unless he is retroactively transracialized into an African immigrant, he will need to be — as another English author might put it — vaporized.
On a tip from Franco.
