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[–]JulienMayfair 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I saw a video of a former Shakespeare professor of mine delivering a paper where he tried to make Shakespeare relevant to the whole George Floyd/BLM/Defund The Police hysteria. I felt embarrassed for him. It was such a transparently desperate attempt to make his scholarship "relevant," and it fell flat.

[–]OuroborosTheory 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I mean "controversy over highwayman killed by town watchman attracts hypocrites and hangers-on that muck up the already-mucky issue" does sound like a workable Shakespeare play

but I bet that wasn't it at all, of course ...

but I've noticed this in the least "applied" departments: geography, anthropology, language (most Anglo-Saxonist activity seems dedicated to forbidding students from using the term and ranting about how 8th-century England was FULL of B.A.M.E. enbies: at least debunk the "Ostara" Tweets that get passed around every Passover, that'd be more useful): someone who's actually worked with guerrillas is gonna be the least sanguine, since most (surviving) ones aren't humanities academics with fat pensions

it's like when everyone and their auntie piles on the Thing of the Week: no, I don't want CVS to Have An Opinion on the Donbass War: it's just a "fart at a funeral" levels of inappropriate