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Feb 07 2021
Beethoven Considered for Cancelation
Equity precludes greatness. Consequently, great music is ideologically problematic. That is to say, it must be abolished. Rather than waste time nibbling at the edges, we may as well start by canceling Beethoven. Varsity, the student newspaper of the University of Cambridge, considers this proposal:
But maybe Ludwig Van can escape cancelation after all:
Canceling Beethoven alone solves nothing:
Progressives are waging total war against Western Civilization. The war will not end until either liberalism or everything we could conceivably take pride in or find meaning in has been eradicated.
On a tip from Lyle.
Throw his works on the fire ....for unity and equity....derp
Feb 07 2021
Beethoven Considered for Cancelation
Equity precludes greatness. Consequently, great music is ideologically problematic. That is to say, it must be abolished. Rather than waste time nibbling at the edges, we may as well start by canceling Beethoven. Varsity, the student newspaper of the University of Cambridge, considers this proposal:
The author then attempts to associate Beethoven with German nationalism on the grounds that Germans have understandably been proud of him. He demonstrates the level of intellectual sophistication of the elitist savages tearing our culture down by calling Beethovenās fellow giant Richard Wagner a ābuttmunch.āWhen Vox published an article describing Beethovenās Fifth Symphony as āa reminder of classical musicās history of exclusion and elitismā, the right-wing media threw up a storm over it and declared it āwoke madnessā, with even Ben Shapiro offering his own ādelicateā response. In light of the recent #MeToo and BLM movements, Beethovenās symbolic nature as the potentially prototypical āpale, male and staleā composer has become ever more prominent. The feminist musicologist Susan McClary infamously compared the recapitulation in his Ninth Symphony to āthe throttling murderous rage of a rapist incapable of attaining releaseā. Is it therefore time to throw the whole man out? If we ācancelledā Beethoven, wouldnāt that eventually result in a more diverse, inclusive and accessible classical music scene?
But maybe Ludwig Van can escape cancelation after all:
Unless we pretend he was black, we may have to cancel him:The question of āWas Beethoven Black?ā keeps resurfacing over 100 years after being first proposed.
The author then explicitly calls for the ācancellingā of ācomposers like Beethovenā ā i.e., great composers, arguably all of whom were European men.Being a guaranteed ticket-seller and donor pleaser, he keeps reappearing in concert programmes to the exclusion of other, more diverse composers.
Canceling Beethoven alone solves nothing:
The reader is left to conclude that all great music must be abolished. Due to the decay that is expressed in politics through liberalism and in the arts through postmodernism, virtually no music that even deserves to be called classical has been composed outside of Eastern Europe for decades. All we have to do is delete the catalog of all that came before us. That will enable a glorious utopian future of non-Caucasians generating meaningless noise.[R]emoving Beethoven from the scene would only result in a different āpale, male and staleā composer (e.g. Mozart) taking his symbolic place.
Progressives are waging total war against Western Civilization. The war will not end until either liberalism or everything we could conceivably take pride in or find meaning in has been eradicated.
On a tip from Lyle.
Throw his works on the fire ....for unity and equity....derp