Never knew this, and it should be discussed. U of Penn Eng department took down Shakespeare picture.

[koshergrl]

That is so funny though, the list above consists mostly of works that were considered fluff and mind-rotting garbage when they came out.

 

[IsaacNewton]

Shakespeare will be fine. What is worrisome is conservatives that want to take down the periodic table of the elements and all the chemistry derived thereof and say it's all a hoax because it doesn't include a flying Ginn.

 

[Pogo]

When it comes to hiring, there is a long list of universities a lot of people will not hire graduates from. This is one of them.

Link?


Yeah guess not.

Dufus needs a link that college graduates are not getting hired.

The left just get stupider and stupider.

"Stupider" enough to have no clue what "burden of proof" is?

Dumbasssssssss

I would normally agree with your opinion on this. HOWEVER, the OP cites "diversity" not "extended learning". Just another racial thing..

That's not the OP. It's not even related. It was asking the poster to prove his claim that, quote, "there is a long list of universities a lot of people will not hire graduates from. This is one of them." Which of course, he can't.

 

[Pogo]

Apparently my parents never read the book.

I read Dr. Spock's Baby and Childcare front to back at least three times. I didn't know nuthin about babies when I had mine. Had to follow directions on the back of the diaper package.

He didn't say anything that would turn kids into snowflakes. He did discourage physical discipline for children old enough to understand other methods like time out or taking away a toy.

Dr. Spock was awesome. STFU.

The mindset that every kid is special and unique is good.....but only if it is balanced with the idea that we're all "special and unique". When kids think their specialness and uniqueness makes them better than others, then we have a problem. The problem is often manifested as a lack of common courtesy in our "modern" era. While I don't blame Dr. Spock entirely for this, I do think the idea of teaching kids are special and unique, one of a kind like snowflakes, causes problems unless it is balanced with the recognition that others are just as special too.

Given this definition, the fact Ann Coulter had a fucking conniption about being asked to move to accommodate a family proves she's one of these self-centered snowflakes.

If they prefer diversity to Shakespeare, is it really the end of your world? If Dr. Spock wanted parents to take a gentler approach that respected a child's unique personality, is that really so awful?
I'm done with you bunch. I haven't met a single young person so preoccupied and self centered as the ones that seem to appear regularly here for your snarking pleasure. It's a bunch of rubbish.

I don't see it as a problem. As stated earlier, it should be expected of the young to be both foolish and idealistic. If they don't outgrow it by the time they are 40, then they are idiots.

"If You Are Not a Liberal at 20, You Have No Heart. If You Are Not a Conservative at 40 You Have No Brain"

Shakespeare pretty much created English literature.

Replacing him with anybody in an ENGLISH DEPARTMENT is pure stupidity.

Didn't nobody "replace Shakespeare in an ENGLISH DEPARTMENT". It's a fricking portrait. On a wall.

 

[Divine Wind]

I read Dr. Spock's Baby and Childcare front to back at least three times. I didn't know nuthin about babies when I had mine. Had to follow directions on the back of the diaper package.

He didn't say anything that would turn kids into snowflakes. He did discourage physical discipline for children old enough to understand other methods like time out or taking away a toy.

Dr. Spock was awesome. STFU.

The mindset that every kid is special and unique is good.....but only if it is balanced with the idea that we're all "special and unique". When kids think their specialness and uniqueness makes them better than others, then we have a problem. The problem is often manifested as a lack of common courtesy in our "modern" era. While I don't blame Dr. Spock entirely for this, I do think the idea of teaching kids are special and unique, one of a kind like snowflakes, causes problems unless it is balanced with the recognition that others are just as special too.

Given this definition, the fact Ann Coulter had a fucking conniption about being asked to move to accommodate a family proves she's one of these self-centered snowflakes.

If they prefer diversity to Shakespeare, is it really the end of your world? If Dr. Spock wanted parents to take a gentler approach that respected a child's unique personality, is that really so awful?
I'm done with you bunch. I haven't met a single young person so preoccupied and self centered as the ones that seem to appear regularly here for your snarking pleasure. It's a bunch of rubbish.

I don't see it as a problem. As stated earlier, it should be expected of the young to be both foolish and idealistic. If they don't outgrow it by the time they are 40, then they are idiots.

"If You Are Not a Liberal at 20, You Have No Heart. If You Are Not a Conservative at 40 You Have No Brain"

Shakespeare pretty much created English literature.

Replacing him with anybody in an ENGLISH DEPARTMENT is pure stupidity.

Didn't nobody "replace Shakespeare in an ENGLISH DEPARTMENT". It's a fricking portrait. On a wall.

No worries, mate. We be chillin' on the killin' of a picture.

 

[MarkClaude]

Why does the right of center here act like "socialism" is what the left of center is doing? It's not.

Progressivism has been a part of American culture and economics since 1912.

There is a lot of pretend in this OP.

 

[Divine Wind]

Why does the right of center here act like "socialism" is what the left of center is doing? It's not.

Progressivism has been a part of American culture and economics since 1912.

There is a lot of pretend in this OP.

In the era of partisanship, words have become distorted and abused. "liberal", "progressive", "conservative", "cooperation" and "compromise" have all become dirty words.

 

[Unkotare]

...

Hey, maybe Shakespeare was from Nebraska then? There's lots more states....

And that, boys and girls, is the logical fallacy known as a straw man.

 

[Unkotare]

Shakespeare will be fine. What is worrisome is conservatives that want to take down the periodic table of the elements and all the chemistry derived thereof and say it's all a hoax because it doesn't include a flying Ginn.

Who wants to do that?

 

[Moonglow]

At the University of Pennsylvania, the student newspaper reports that a group of students took down a large portrait of William Shakespeare, which had for years been displayed above a staircase in a building housing the English Department.

Why? According to the Daily Pennsylvanian, the students wanted the wall art in the department to represent the world’s diversity of authors, so they replaced Shakespeare on the Heyer Staircase with a photo of Audre Lorde, an African American lesbian writer, feminist and civil rights activist.



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An Ivy league school wants to replace William Shakespeare with a "black"....."lesbian"....."activist" commie angry short haired woman?

The price of the politically correct democrat socialist anti-American policies.

Complete fucking unreal morons.

I never knew Shakespeare was and American citizen, that's odd....What you and the students don't know is that Shakespeare was an activist also, and shrouded it in his writings, a little cryptic most times, yet apparent in jabs.. ...

 

[Theowl32]

At the University of Pennsylvania, the student newspaper reports that a group of students took down a large portrait of William Shakespeare, which had for years been displayed above a staircase in a building housing the English Department.

Why? According to the Daily Pennsylvanian, the students wanted the wall art in the department to represent the world’s diversity of authors, so they replaced Shakespeare on the Heyer Staircase with a photo of Audre Lorde, an African American lesbian writer, feminist and civil rights activist.



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An Ivy league school wants to replace William Shakespeare with a "black"....."lesbian"....."activist" commie angry short haired woman?

The price of the politically correct democrat socialist anti-American policies.

Complete fucking unreal morons.

I never knew Shakespeare was and American citizen, that's odd....What you and the students don't know is that Shakespeare was an activist also, and shrouded it in his writings, a little cryptic most times, yet apparent in jabs.. ...

You stupid fuck. Is it the American department? Or is it the English department?

Besides, the reason they took it down is because he was a white male, and the reason they put up that stupid commie militant black bitch, is because she was a stupid commie militant black bitch.

You are fucking morons.

 

[Moonglow]

At the University of Pennsylvania, the student newspaper reports that a group of students took down a large portrait of William Shakespeare, which had for years been displayed above a staircase in a building housing the English Department.

Why? According to the Daily Pennsylvanian, the students wanted the wall art in the department to represent the world’s diversity of authors, so they replaced Shakespeare on the Heyer Staircase with a photo of Audre Lorde, an African American lesbian writer, feminist and civil rights activist.



---------------------------------

An Ivy league school wants to replace William Shakespeare with a "black"....."lesbian"....."activist" commie angry short haired woman?

The price of the politically correct democrat socialist anti-American policies.

Complete fucking unreal morons.

I never knew Shakespeare was and American citizen, that's odd....What you and the students don't know is that Shakespeare was an activist also, and shrouded it in his writings, a little cryptic most times, yet apparent in jabs.. ...

You stupid fuck. Is it the American department? Or is it the English department?

Besides, the reason they took it down is because he was a white male, and the reason they put up that stupid commie militant black bitch, is because she was a stupid commie militant black bitch.

You are fucking morons.

We speak a colloquial version of English, but not old tyme English..So they put up a black woman, I am sure the level of learning will not increase or decrease..

 

[Theowl32]

When it comes to hiring, there is a long list of universities a lot of people will not hire graduates from. This is one of them.

Link?


Yeah guess not.

Dufus needs a link that college graduates are not getting hired.

The left just get stupider and stupider.

"Stupider" enough to have no clue what "burden of proof" is?

Dumbasssssssss

I would normally agree with your opinion on this. HOWEVER, the OP cites "diversity" not "extended learning". Just another racial thing..

That's not the OP. It's not even related. It was asking the poster to prove his claim that, quote, "there is a long list of universities a lot of people will not hire graduates from. This is one of them." Which of course, he can't.

You stupid fuck. Aren't you the same stupid hypocrites that a make a giant big fucking deal about this?

Left wing faggot reactions to that.....

 

[bodecea]

Shakespeare will be fine. What is worrisome is conservatives that want to take down the periodic table of the elements and all the chemistry derived thereof and say it's all a hoax because it doesn't include a flying Ginn.

Remember them getting all triggered over "Julius Caesar" in Central Park?

 

[bodecea]

Link?


Yeah guess not.

Dufus needs a link that college graduates are not getting hired.

The left just get stupider and stupider.

"Stupider" enough to have no clue what "burden of proof" is?

Dumbasssssssss

I would normally agree with your opinion on this. HOWEVER, the OP cites "diversity" not "extended learning". Just another racial thing..

That's not the OP. It's not even related. It was asking the poster to prove his claim that, quote, "there is a long list of universities a lot of people will not hire graduates from. This is one of them." Which of course, he can't.

You stupid fuck. Aren't you the same stupid hypocrites that a make a giant big fucking deal about this?

Left wing faggot reactions to that.....

Love your con-federate flag....nothing tags you more than a flag that represents a failed 4 year effort to keep the slavery of our fellow man legal and spread out.

 

[Moonglow]

Shakespeare will be fine. What is worrisome is conservatives that want to take down the periodic table of the elements and all the chemistry derived thereof and say it's all a hoax because it doesn't include a flying Ginn.

Remember them getting all triggered over "Julius Caesar" in Central Park?

These guys are dogmatic dramatist...with a hint of oblivious...

 

[Pogo]

Link?


Yeah guess not.

Dufus needs a link that college graduates are not getting hired.

The left just get stupider and stupider.

"Stupider" enough to have no clue what "burden of proof" is?

Dumbasssssssss

I would normally agree with your opinion on this. HOWEVER, the OP cites "diversity" not "extended learning". Just another racial thing..

That's not the OP. It's not even related. It was asking the poster to prove his claim that, quote, "there is a long list of universities a lot of people will not hire graduates from. This is one of them." Which of course, he can't.

You stupid fuck. Aren't you the same stupid hypocrites that a make a giant big fucking deal about this?

Left wing faggot reactions to that.....

Uh, no.
Go ahead. Search my posts and prove me wrong.
Do that, and you'll find the opposite. But thanks for pulling yet another ass-umption out of your long intestine. It's so much easier than actually reading, isn't it.

 

[Pogo]

At the University of Pennsylvania, the student newspaper reports that a group of students took down a large portrait of William Shakespeare, which had for years been displayed above a staircase in a building housing the English Department.

Why? According to the Daily Pennsylvanian, the students wanted the wall art in the department to represent the world’s diversity of authors, so they replaced Shakespeare on the Heyer Staircase with a photo of Audre Lorde, an African American lesbian writer, feminist and civil rights activist.



---------------------------------

An Ivy league school wants to replace William Shakespeare with a "black"....."lesbian"....."activist" commie angry short haired woman?

The price of the politically correct democrat socialist anti-American policies.

Complete fucking unreal morons.

I never knew Shakespeare was and American citizen, that's odd....What you and the students don't know is that Shakespeare was an activist also, and shrouded it in his writings, a little cryptic most times, yet apparent in jabs.. ...

You stupid fuck. Is it the American department? Or is it the English department?

Besides, the reason they took it down is because he was a white male, and the reason they put up that stupid commie militant black bitch, is because she was a stupid commie militant black bitch.

You are fucking morons.

Actually your own OP article notes that the administration had already decided to replace the monstrous Shakespeare some time ago. An action they hadn't got around to doing, or hadn't decided on a replacement. So the students carried it out.

>> The portrait has resided over the main staircase of Fisher-Bennett — home to Penn’s English Department — for years. The English Department voted to relocate and replace the portrait a few years ago in order to represent a more diverse range of writers, according to an emailed statement from [Department Chair Jed] Esty <<​

Your own link.

Tell us more about these "fucking morons". And how they figure they can just run on ass-umptions without reading their own material.

 

[mgh80]

At the University of Pennsylvania, the student newspaper reports that a group of students took down a large portrait of William Shakespeare, which had for years been displayed above a staircase in a building housing the English Department.

Why? According to the Daily Pennsylvanian, the students wanted the wall art in the department to represent the world’s diversity of authors, so they replaced Shakespeare on the Heyer Staircase with a photo of Audre Lorde, an African American lesbian writer, feminist and civil rights activist.



---------------------------------

An Ivy league school wants to replace William Shakespeare with a "black"....."lesbian"....."activist" commie angry short haired woman?

The price of the politically correct democrat socialist anti-American policies.

Complete fucking unreal morons.

How many in the general population have ever heard of William Shakespeare? Write that number down.
Now how many have ever heard of Audre Lorde?

Do da math, let us know what you come up with. And be sure to add the increase for those who now know her because you posted this thread.

Dafuck does any of this have to do with political parties, "socialism" or "anti-Amiericanism"? Which one of the two was actually American? Did Shakespeare live in New Jersey?

Always think before posting.

Shakespeare's influence on literature AND the English language itself is second to none.

Shakespeare's influence on literature and culture is self-evident and needs no description...but his influence goes well beyond that. Here's a short list of words that he invented that we still use centuries later:

addiction, blanket, arouse, compromise, assassination, deafening, lonely, hint, ran, tranquility, torture, worthless, frugal, obscene, monumental, impartial, gust, discontent, gloomy, impede, fashionable, dwindle, exposure, and the list goes on and on and on.

The above is 100% true, and is nothing short of mind-blowing. That's why Shakespeare is more important to our language, culture, and literature than any other author in history.

This isn't getting into tropes, symbolism, archetypes, themes, plot devices that is still used in our culture every single day.

There's a reason why we still study Shakespeare over 400 years after (literally) his death: because he was/is that important.

Name one author-but ONE-who is historically more influential than Shakespeare. I'll be waiting.

 

[Pogo]

At the University of Pennsylvania, the student newspaper reports that a group of students took down a large portrait of William Shakespeare, which had for years been displayed above a staircase in a building housing the English Department.

Why? According to the Daily Pennsylvanian, the students wanted the wall art in the department to represent the world’s diversity of authors, so they replaced Shakespeare on the Heyer Staircase with a photo of Audre Lorde, an African American lesbian writer, feminist and civil rights activist.



---------------------------------

An Ivy league school wants to replace William Shakespeare with a "black"....."lesbian"....."activist" commie angry short haired woman?

The price of the politically correct democrat socialist anti-American policies.

Complete fucking unreal morons.

How many in the general population have ever heard of William Shakespeare? Write that number down.
Now how many have ever heard of Audre Lorde?

Do da math, let us know what you come up with. And be sure to add the increase for those who now know her because you posted this thread.

Dafuck does any of this have to do with political parties, "socialism" or "anti-Americanism"? Which one of the two was actually American? Did Shakespeare live in New Jersey?

Always think before posting.

Shakespeare's influence on literature AND the English language itself is second to none.

Shakespeare's influence on literature and culture is self-evident and needs no description...but his influence goes well beyond that. Here's a short list of words that he invented that we still use centuries later:

addiction, blanket, arouse, compromise, assassination, deafening, lonely, hint, ran, tranquility, torture, worthless, frugal, obscene, monumental, impartial, gust, discontent, gloomy, impede, fashionable, dwindle, exposure, and the list goes on and on and on.

The above is 100% true, and is nothing short of mind-blowing. That's why Shakespeare is more important to our language, culture, and literature than any other author in history.

This isn't getting into tropes, symbolism, archetypes, themes, plot devices that is still used in our culture every single day.

There's a reason why we still study Shakespeare over 400 years after (literally) his death: because he was/is that important.

Name one author-but ONE-who is historically more influential than Shakespeare. I'll be waiting.

Sadly none of this addresses the OP's canard of "anti-Americanism". As already posted, the evidence that Shakespeare ever saw "America" falls, to paraphrase that noted author Bob Uecker, juuuuuust a bit outside. That's a tale told by an idiot, full of unsound fury, signifying bupkis.

Moreover, your points about his influence being pervasively known and acknowledged, amplify my first point. So thanks for that.

Nor for that matter does it have to do with a decision to replace a gigantic mural on a stairwell.