William Shakespeare's plays are “racially problematic”

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  • @Elric19772
    @Elric19772 3 роки тому +36

    According to the Globe's website, they received the maximum grant from the Cultural Recovery Fund in 2020 "to protect the nation’s world renowned cultural, arts and heritage institutions". Like the National Trust, the senior management of this organisation need to be removed immediately for misusing public funds if they intend to change Shakespeare's work to fit their political and cultural agenda.

    • @elkpaz560
      @elkpaz560 3 роки тому +3

      Anyone with the relevant qualifications to do this job has been educated to think in a particular way.

  • @DeeJay2715
    @DeeJay2715 3 роки тому +17

    If only people could simply enjoy culture for what it is.

  • @bbouchan1
    @bbouchan1 3 роки тому +19

    We're regressing to the cultural dark ages!

    • @adventussaxonum448
      @adventussaxonum448 3 роки тому

      The so called Dark Ages had Beowulf!

    • @allahspreadshate6486
      @allahspreadshate6486 3 роки тому

      It's not called the dark age because it was a bad time, it's because relatively little is known about it.

  • @stonemarten1400
    @stonemarten1400 3 роки тому +14

    Surely if you are de-colonising within the United Kingdom, you are removing all references to non-native British culture? The true colonisers of this country are the people that refuse to integrate from places like Pakistan, India and Africa.

    • @Sarvagya4
      @Sarvagya4 3 роки тому

      really so who were the nice gentlemen who stole 500 trillion from India and killed millions of people there and ran poppy farms for opium that starved 19 million people in Bengal? wow such nice guests we had the pleasure of hosting.

  • @markwise9276
    @markwise9276 3 роки тому +15

    just leave our history alone, its done, in the past, over. If you are smart you learn from history not rewrite it.

  • @woodlandbiker
    @woodlandbiker 3 роки тому +8

    If you rewrite Shakespeare it is no longer Shakespeare.

  • @margaretdertesi1486
    @margaretdertesi1486 3 роки тому +5

    Looking from the other end of the world I cannot understand why being a proud Englishman is racist. Surely noone else in the world feels the need to hate their own people.

  • @Peter-od1hi
    @Peter-od1hi 3 роки тому +11

    They for their truth might better wear their hats, than those that accuse them wear their heads.

  • @banginghats2
    @banginghats2 3 роки тому +5

    I find woke drama so problematic I can no longer watch tv drama.

  • @Andrew-ri5qo
    @Andrew-ri5qo 3 роки тому +10

    UA-cam on a comment deleting spree on this video.

    • @ministryofanti-feminism1493
      @ministryofanti-feminism1493 3 роки тому +1

      Its more likely TalkRadio doing it. They are MSM after all.

    • @fredo1070
      @fredo1070 3 роки тому +1

      @@ministryofanti-feminism1493 UA-cam has an algorithm that bans certain words.

  • @andrewvictor1865
    @andrewvictor1865 3 роки тому +6

    One of Shakespeare's unique facets is that he sets out situations for the audience, but never betrays his own opinion or feelings. Very few, if any, other playwrights manage to do this and certainly no revisionists.

  • @DrBox88
    @DrBox88 3 роки тому +12

    Whiteness, or paleness of ones’ complexion, was regarded as preferential as it indicated that someone was of a certain social standing. In short, they were not a serf or villein, forced to work the land in the sun and wind. These cultural anomalies are still present in agrarian Mediterranean societies. Guess that’s racist too. Or maybe, as I suspect, many people are quick to be offended but not quick enough to educate themselves.

    • @elkpaz560
      @elkpaz560 3 роки тому +1

      A fair skin was also seen as reflective of a purer soul.

    • @joetrigger5962
      @joetrigger5962 3 роки тому +2

      Add India and China to that list too - Both have massive colourism

    • @jamescollins3647
      @jamescollins3647 3 роки тому

      @@elkpaz560 Don't buy that one!

    • @elkpaz560
      @elkpaz560 3 роки тому +1

      @@jamescollins3647 Read the poetry of the 16th century.

  • @geraldineedwards6153
    @geraldineedwards6153 3 роки тому +4

    Why don't they leave this counrty

  • @fav9925
    @fav9925 3 роки тому +7

    Embarrassing

  • @elkpaz560
    @elkpaz560 3 роки тому +7

    It is true that all that new-platonic poetry valued fairness of skin over darkness (olive and sallow complexions). The indigenous people of this country need to stop denying their past or apologising for it, the people who want you to do that, hate you and want to replace you.

    • @elkpaz560
      @elkpaz560 3 роки тому +1

      @Redfern Pitcher I'm mixed and dark, I don't believe anyone should be compelled to like or say they like anything. There is beauty in fair skin and blonde hair and blue eyes and there is beauty in black hair and dark skin and dark eyes.

  • @OFFSHOREDOUG
    @OFFSHOREDOUG 3 роки тому +6

    What lunacy.

  • @petersaunders747
    @petersaunders747 3 роки тому +3

    A bit generous there, calling them half wits. Nil wits would be my call!!

  • @jameshill5621
    @jameshill5621 3 роки тому +6

    FFS! Hands off The Bard.

  • @Twmpa
    @Twmpa 3 роки тому +6

    And todays wokey fantasy BS is....

  • @earthstick
    @earthstick 3 роки тому +3

    Instead of trying to appropriate other peoples history, maybe people should do something of significance themselves.

  • @vertexveritas2031
    @vertexveritas2031 3 роки тому +2

    It would help Sam's credibility if he could, at the very least, get the year Shakespeare died right. Clearly not an expert then, or even simply informed.

  • @stevo728822
    @stevo728822 3 роки тому +3

    Please increase the volume of your videos.

  • @chips1889
    @chips1889 3 роки тому +1

    The actors need to take the knee (with the Balck Power fist) before every performance. Then wait for the booing to start.

  • @aditierneu9651
    @aditierneu9651 3 роки тому +1

    i need to get my eyes tested ...i glanced at the title and thought it said William Shatner

  • @MrShoesmad
    @MrShoesmad 3 роки тому +1

    Why don't they just tell all the window lickers, we won't do any plays anymore until new ones are done. I don't do plays but ffs its all history and you need history to see how far you have come and also to not make the same mistakes again. Jump too 2040 and will they want all the senseless deaths or young black men in London all stabbed to death daily now deleted from history? Humans do awful stuff, learn from it but don't delete it.

  • @garrybartlett6853
    @garrybartlett6853 3 роки тому +1

    What you aint saying is this... Daytime was safe... night was dangerous... simple as...
    Hence light and dark, white and black... oppersites and separated from the rest of the colours...

  • @a.hoctavius5848
    @a.hoctavius5848 3 роки тому

    Racially problematic.... NO .....
    lame ....YES
    should be stuffed down our throats..... ABSOLUTELY NOT

  • @paulworthington8666
    @paulworthington8666 3 роки тому

    In the eighteenth century, we had the Enlightenment. It led to liberty and democracy. We seem now to be having an Endarkenment, that will lead to tyrany and misery if we don't kick it out.

  • @frankford1115
    @frankford1115 3 роки тому

    Oh get stuffed! Honestly. What absolute bollocks.

  • @bigfrankfraser1391
    @bigfrankfraser1391 2 роки тому

    "Lord, what fools these mortals be!" - william shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream act 3, sc. 2

  • @maisondusuave
    @maisondusuave 3 роки тому +1

    OH FFS. MAKE IT STOP

  • @anthonyperes4421
    @anthonyperes4421 3 роки тому

    Those woke really are starting to pass me off.

  • @lilyann168
    @lilyann168 3 роки тому

    Romeo and Juliet gave us West Side Story, which is a wonderful musical. So no, not all adaptations are crap. If the adaptation isn't for you, don't watch it.

  • @matthewsmith2787
    @matthewsmith2787 3 роки тому +4

    Give over, Shakespeare was played and written in different times. It’s actually normal.

  • @615jenkins
    @615jenkins 3 роки тому

    The far left have avoided the excoriation we justly dish out to the far right because they hide behind facades of respectability. Time to out them - like this!! Bravo 👏👏

  • @marklloyd4087
    @marklloyd4087 3 роки тому

    Is this 1933 Germany 🙄

  • @JF-pq7ch
    @JF-pq7ch 3 роки тому

    Ppl r so stupid, Shakespeare isn't problematic

  • @henryschwaiger6568
    @henryschwaiger6568 3 роки тому

    Oh ffs whatever next?

  • @nioengland
    @nioengland 3 роки тому

    Sam makes it sound like we at war with the yamps... never surrender, we'll fight them in the fields and in the streets... we will never surrender

  • @terrybarge9090
    @terrybarge9090 3 роки тому

    Another idiotic woke joke!

  • @trevaudio
    @trevaudio 3 роки тому

    Oh dear, the British education system on show again....the first British colonies / settlements date back to 1607 !!! Wrong AGAIN O’Sullivan !

    • @jamescollins3647
      @jamescollins3647 3 роки тому

      It would seem he is right! Still can't stand him.

  • @jamesgray1210
    @jamesgray1210 3 роки тому +1

    Chuckling at all the outraged comments here, predominantly written by people who likely haven't even read Shakespeare, as it would it detract from Corrie or Jeremy Kyle time haha.

    • @jamesgray1210
      @jamesgray1210 3 роки тому

      @Redfern Pitcher Ha, nope, we did the typical Shakespeare circuit for GCSE & AS level - King Lear, Macbeth Midsummer's Night Dream etc 🙂

    • @adventussaxonum448
      @adventussaxonum448 3 роки тому +2

      But they've possibly watched Band of Brothers, West Side Story, Branagh's Henry V, or mused that all that glitters is not gold, the lady doth protest too much, the game's afoot, all's well that ends well, or that they are more sinned against than sinning.
      Maybe they refuse to budge an inch, play fast and loose, have been tongue-tied, made a virtue of necessity, stood on ceremony, had short shrift, seen better days or been a tower of strength.
      Or is all of that just not on, nowadays? 😄

    • @maryd4726
      @maryd4726 3 роки тому +1

      @@adventussaxonum448 glisters, not glitters, but I agree with your concept.

  • @paxolefeece6520
    @paxolefeece6520 3 роки тому

    joggah lovahs