One of Orwell’s best ideas is a thing called the “Memory Hole” into which we may consign all the horrific elements of our society and wipe them from history. These could include: the Daily Mail, all the Harry Potter novels, non vegan meals, the Conservative party, Sunderland and Toby Young.

Over the past two years, brave activists have followed Orwell’s advice and targeted a number of historical monuments for demolition. One of these is the statue in Parliament Square of that repugnant racist Winston Churchill. This is the man who literally forced citizens to travel abroad and shoot at Germans. How can that be anything other than xenophobic?

It’s so typical of a white man to free some slaves and assume we should be grateful

I have been particularly impressed by calls from academics at Imperial College to remove the bust of slavery abolitionist Thomas Henry Huxley. As an evil white male, it’s clear that he was only ever campaigning to end the slave trade as a cynical ploy to disguise his inherent racism.

And last year protesters in the United States also called for the toppling of statues of Abraham Lincoln in Washington and Boston. Just because Lincoln signed that “Emancipation Proclamation” doesn’t mean he should get a free pass for his white privilege.

Anyway, it’s so typical of a white man to free some slaves and assume we should be grateful. In fact, I think we should reinstate slavery immediately so that it can be abolished by a queer woman of colour.

So let’s bulldoze Buckingham Palace, tear up the gardens at Kew, and incinerate all libraries that contain harmful words. I also think we should remove that so called “statue of justice” on top of the Old Bailey, because if you squint your eyes it looks a bit like a swastika.

As Orwell explained: “Who controls the past controls the future.” She knew what she was talking about.
https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/december-january-2022/orwell-shes-my-self-help-gu...

Anyone who has a problem with Denzel Washington playing MacBeth, should also have a problem with anyone playing MacBeth who is not speaking in Scottish (or in a Scottish accent) let alone Shakespeare's MacBeth having been translated into multiple languages and the character of MacBeth played by nearly every world ethnicity.

I think it was Richard Burton who quipped that no one had a problem when an English actor played a Roman, but when an American actor did the same, many people scoffed at their performance because Romans didn't speak with an American accent.

An African playing a Scotsman is not translation.

It's parochial American PC and pointless taking the fccn knee.
Absurd.

Africans, Asians, Arabs in the Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest - fine. Not mediaeval Scottish or English king's, queen's, nobles.
Moronic.

Ok for Black 'African' Americans (because Africa is for Black people only apparently) to play non-American historical roles of foreign nations.

...but not ok for White people to play 'Black' historical roles. That's racist!

UnSubRocky wrote on Jan 2^nd, 2022 at 10:15pm:

Yes. And we know the backlash that got eh?

mothra wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2022 at 7:56am:



We KNOW you are stupid, Mother Miffy, no need to emphasise it.  The play's full title is Othello, the Moor of Venice.

Would you cast Brad Pitt as Othello? Or Laurence Olivier, in blackface?

UnSubRocky wrote on Jan 2^nd, 2022 at 10:15pm:


It's called makeup.