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

[Unkotare]

Today's special: Red Herring

 

[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.



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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.

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.

What part of "English department" is about America? If you could name one writer in the history of the English language who is more important than Shakespeare I'd love to hear who it is...we don't learn "American" in schools: we learn "English".

 

[MaryL]

Today's special: Red Herring

Unko has a special recipe for red herring, it's a slab of contradiction, with a dash of condescension . An it always tastes like how poo smells.

 

[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.



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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.

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.

What part of "English department" is about America? If you could name one writer in the history of the English language who is more important than Shakespeare I'd love to hear who it is...we don't learn "American" in schools: we learn "English".

Yeah NO SHIT.

----- which makes the OP's whining about "anti-Americanism" absurd. Get it?

None of this thread is about "who's important in the English language" or what Shakespeare did. It's about the OP's butthurt that the students in the English Department put up an image of a black woman. And something about "anti-Americanism" that he has yet to explain.