Ray McCarthy
Sentient Marmite: The Truth may make you fret.
A stupid American alternative.'person of color' is preferred.
Every human except Albino people are coloured.
A stupid American alternative.'person of color' is preferred.
'Colored person' is unacceptable; 'person of color' is preferred.
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Shakespeare and Peyps were at risk of being accused of being papists.Shakespeare
A stupid American alternative.
Every human except Albino people are coloured.
All lot of the calls to "diversify" the canon seem to me like refusals to confront the extreme difference that comes from the passage of history. So Homer, Milton, Shakespeare all get grouped together as basically the same, simply because they were all "straight, white men" (categories that they would not themselves have recognized as we see them now).
Making one wonder why white people invented the term 'colored people',..
I don't accept either of those terms for humans. They are not useful in the context they are usually applied.white people invented the term 'colored people'
Shakespeare and Peyps were at risk of being accused of being papists.
I think at least one playwright Shakespeare knew was executed. There's a reason why many of his plays were careful politically in terms of Tudor sensitivities.
Lots of writers of the "Classics" were not rich or powerful, just educated enough to be able to write.
I know that that's not a serious question.Are you trying to suggest that being a white male didn't automatically make you rich and privileged?
The societies most under siege from "activists" are the least corrupt (apart maybe from Financial Institutions in some), most equal, most opportunities and wealthiest in the the world. That's why people want to go there.
India Knight: Students these days are too mollycoddled to be at university
India Knight hits the nail on the head with this article.
Both of those fall afoul of the central belief of the radical left - that they grew up in a monstrous society, and any and all opponents of that society must be in the right. An ideology that so stubbornly refuses to acknowledge the empirical truth that the West today is closer to their ideals than any other society in history is not to be taken seriously. It's little more than a collective emotional tantrum.
You don't have to subscribe. Just register. It's free and easy. Minimal hoops. They just want you to establish a nic and a password. They don't even make you go to your email to get a pass they send you.A summary for those of us who don't subscribe to the Times?
Spot on indeed. I hadn't encounterd Ms. Knight's work before. Anyone interested in this sort of thing might want to look at some of Mark Bauerlein's work. He is an english prof at Emory University and is in the trenches on the front line so to speak. His best known book is "The Dumbest Generation". It is closely reasoned, carefully documented, anticipates and rebuts the most standard excuses. Here is a short piece by him:India Knight: Students these days are too mollycoddled to be at university
India Knight hits the nail on the head with this article.
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