In Hamlet, William Shakespeare famously wrote, “To thine own self be true.” The problem is when others want to present a different “truth” long after you are gone. Shakespeare is under an unrelenting attack in the United Kingdom from trigger warnings to censoring his prose. Now, Shakespeare’s Birthplace Trust has announced that it will “de-colonise” the Bard.
In the name of creating “a more inclusive museum experience,” the Trust is moving away from Western perspectives to avoid the dangers of “white supremacy.”
A prior research project between the trust and Dr Helen Hopkins at the University of Birmingham raised concerns over just praising the writer. Even recognizing Shakespeare’s genius “benefits the ideology of white European supremacy.”
The new push at the Trust follows The Globe Theatre’s previous move to “decolonise” Shakespeare’s famous plays. Again, while many of us denounce this type of revisionism, it appeals to this community of cultural overlords. It is personally advancing for these academics and experts to seek to change or cancel such works.
The same voices are being heard in the United States. As we previously discussed, in a column in the School Library Journal, Minnesota librarian and journalist Amanda MacGregor questioned why teachers were even still exposing their students to this harmful influence: “Shakespeare’s works are full of problematic, outdated ideas, with plenty of misogyny, racism, homophobia, classism, anti-Semitism and misogynoir.”
Lorena German, National Council of Teachers of English Anti-Racism Committee chair and a co-founder of the Disrupt Texts forum, insisted “everything about the fact that he was a man of his time is problematic about his plays. We cannot teach Shakespeare responsibly and not disrupt the ways people are characterized and developed.”
It is time for the dwindling population of sane Brits to step forward and fight for their culture and heritage. These advocates have used academia and the media to attack the foundations of British culture. It is not enough to foster diversity in other areas, they must change and reframe how historical figures and works are presented.
They recognize this as a culture war, but have met little resistance. It is time, as the Bard himself wrote, to “Cry havoc! and let slip the dogs of war.”
The whole point of all of this is to erase western culture. So in light of that, it makes perfect sense.
The culture warriors “must change and reframe how historical figures and works are presented.” (JT)
They’re more pernicious than that.
They are *destroyers*, nihilists. They cast about for achievements created by others, e.g., statues, founding documents, literature. They land on that achievement. Then suck the life out of it.
Shakespeare will continue for centuries to be revered and this professor’s nonsense will be ephemeral.
Eventually this woke crap will go by the wayside, just as “Free Silver” did over a century ago.
“It is time for the dwindling population of sane Brits to step forward and fight for their culture and heritage.”
– Professor Turley
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It is time for the dwindling population of sane global Europeans to step forward and fight for their culture and heritage.
“Persia was undeniably a great civilization and the world’s first true superpower. Spanning three continents at its height, the Achaemenid Empire (c. 550–330 BCE) introduced innovative infrastructure, including a 2,500 km postal system and the Royal Road. It was renowned for religious tolerance, merit-based administration, and cultural contributions to art, science, and gardening.”
Where are the Great Persians now in “THEIR FINEST HOUR?”
Can’t say I know a thing about Ahura Mazda except the Mazda sports car had a Wankle eng8ne that blew at 100 thou miles every time. It was a nice car with flip up headlights. I digress.
Oh, beware, my lord of Jealousy. It is the green eyed monster doth mock. It is the meat it feeds on. -Iago the great villain like a devil finds the weak spot and preys upon it causing the fall and taking the soul.
^^^ love that portrayal of Iago sizing up every person. He was a manipulator and claimed souls no doubt to cash them in for booty. It’s the blind spot every person has that is the soul’s embarrassment. It’s a genetic flaw more or less just as the eye has a blind spot or a car when changing lanes.
Those are tales teaching morals. Harvard classes liked Homer Simpson and comic books more than Shakespeare.
There’ll be committed scholars like Harold Bloom meeting in some room somewhere with Shakespeare. Needn’t worry …
“We cannot teach Shakespeare responsibly and not disrupt the ways people are characterized and developed.” Cultural censorship and bad grammar seem to go together.
If Shakespeare were alive today, he might have reported on the West Hollywood ghey bar slap fight as “no man was hurt in the brawl”. It seems George – X – Gigi – Svelaz went too far and slapped another dude for not noticing him.
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Wild moment mass brawl breaks out at West Hollywood gay bar before spilling on to the street
https://nypost.com/2026/03/24/us-news/wild-bar-brawl-spills-on-to-west-hollywood-street-as-jersey-clad-combatants-caught-on-camera/
These are the same people who have no problem with or completely ignore the racism, subjugation of women and colonization of Islamic culture. The part of the world and culture where the Handmaid’s Tale is real, not a silly Western fantasy.
For 500 years Europe built the greatest civilization and culture in history. Then in three short decades, from 1914 – 1945, and for no good reason, that same continent blew up its culture and civilization. The current trash pseudo-intellectuals that the above article covers are the worthless debris from that unfortunate explosion. They contribute nothing and will soon be forgotten. Yet, even through the rubble the greats such as Shakespeare, Mozart, Dickens, Pascal, and many others will shine on, perhaps to give inspiration to a new renaissance many years from now.
Perhaps it’s time someone told the geniuses who run the “trust” (ironic term in this case) that Shakespeare and all of the other people who are suspected of writing or contributing to his canon were indeed white. Oh wait, I forgot that all racial and ethnic groups must have their own cultures and heritage which cannot be appropriated, white people excepted.
The approach of Lorena German that “everything about the fact that he [Shakespeare] was a man of his time is problematic about his plays,” would condemn all of history and as Santayana put it, “those who are ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it.” Everyone is a person of their own times– do we have to reinvent the wheel due to its racial origin, whatever that may have been? This makes the preposterous sound so much more sensible!
Bill Shakespeare meet Mark Twain; you two have much in common.
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I think this proves, solidifies the truth of white supremacy. I’ll be back with an appropriate quote from Iago, the greatest villain!
What dreams may come 😂 we have seen. Gardening is a sweet pleasure…
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OT. Election day is so much fun. It’s not about the day or the manner for same day is computer, home vote. It should be about verification of identity and citizenship! 😂 The other aspect is the census. Ah, oh, woe the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune!
Alito got it right – a day. 😂
Adieu
The revenge of Dodi Fayed’s father? ^^^^
Othello was Moslem for one thing. It took 400 years to get them out of Spain.
Much ado about nothing. It’s a tempest in a teapot! In a few generations or less you’ll love the song echoing from minarets and then enjoy a fine morning Raga. Pffft
I was thinking it was Thomas Edison, the Wright Brothers, the Theory of Relativity, the Atomic Bomb, Watson and Crick, the Moon Landing, etc., etc., etc.
Those that want to rewrite, or do away with History, and those that contribute to it, truly define Moron, a person who is a fool with a failed mental process, a nearsighted inflated Ego and need to always be right. They run about spewing nonsense yelling about their notion of the perceived failures of Society were and are WHITE’s fault. I ask WHY i, or anyone else should even listen to utter stupidity.
Mankind once was considered to be of two cultures Occidental / Oriental. Africa was divided into two regions eastern (Oriental) and western (Occidental). Today we find oh so many cultural divisions that owning a Miniature Toy Puddle could qualify culturally, (we must disallow the history of the MUTE) they’ve dirtied the meaning of DOG.
John 8:7 “….Those without….”
William James: 1908
“Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
It took quite some time for China to grasp the error of its ways and the absurdity and irreversible deleterious effect of its one-child policy.
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“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”
– Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, “Tora! Tora! Tora!” 1970
What Caesar couldn’t do, islamist rag-heads have accomplished – and with assistance of the woke british morons. This will be one of the saddest days for Britons since 1066.
Caesar? Rag heads? Morons? Sicko aka whimsicalmama. Considering your level of rage, thought your rage should be included as a counterpoint for the public to understand that you have a deep sickness.
You and the Britons are not sick, then?
““Europe is belatedly discovering how unbelievably stupid it was to import millions of people from cultures that despise Western values and which often promote hatred toward the people who have let them in.”….Thomas Sowell. ‘They’ who spent the past 1500 years colonizing the Levant, east, west, north, and south, as well as west through Mediterranean to Gibraltar, with their culture and beliefs now act to call the kettle black. George Santayan’s counsel has taught he West, their peoples and those the people choose to lead them absolutely nothing and we are the wretched beneficiaries of their failures.
The same impulse that now demands a “decolonised” Shakespeare is what quietly pushes Uncle Tom’s Cabin out of classrooms and locks Song of the South in Disney’s vault: a preference for sanitizing the record over confronting it. In each case, gatekeepers treat citizens as wards who must be shielded from the disturbing ways earlier generations imagined race, power, and human dignity, rather than as moral adults capable of reading hard texts with context and criticism. A culture that cannot bear to see its greatest playwright, its most influential antislavery novel, or its most embarrassing racial fantasies as they actually are will not become more just; it will simply become more forgetful.
You just rewrote Turley’s article. Great job plagiarist.
that message needs repeating endlessly until moronic progs realize the devastation they are wreaking on the civilized world. We should repost this comment endlessly until all the prog morons are institutionalized for the good of the world.
If they are moronic, then theoretically they can’t understand consequences? That’s ripe considering you’re scream at a wall.
This is rather interesting since it’s possible, even probable, that “Shakespeare” never existed but that his plays were written by someone else using “William Shakespeare” as a pen name.
Probable? you do realize that’s liberal disinfo right?
actually it’s not probable, it’s been debunked many times and lives on only in the fevered brains of conspiracy-minded loons. but even if it were true it would have no bearing on the main point of the article which is about the continuing effort to down-grade the achievements of western civilization.
So what? That’s irrelevant to the real issue here.