pcr meets dei and it is a curious journey. how is it that some can believe this stuff; 

 

William Shakespeare has been transformed and thereby rehabilitated.

Paul Craig Roberts

A couple of years ago or thereabouts, we were told that the first Swedes were black people. I wondered how they survived being vitamin D deprived with dark skin and with little and weak sun.

Next, we were told that the first British women were black. And now we hear that William Shakespeare was not a white man from Stratford, but a black feminist woman of Jewish origin from a Venetian family. The mother of the English speaking world was Emilia Bassano Willoughby.

I have often wondered what point people making these unlikely claims were trying to make. Is the point to take away white history? 

Perhaps there is a silver lining in these claims. Now that Shakespeare is no longer a racist antisemitic but a dark-skinned feminist Jew, perhaps he can again be read in universities and his plays can be performed without being boycotted. 

If you think about it, it is amazing. How much of our literature has been banned on the basis of allegations that it is against the Jews or against the blacks or against women. It seems every organized interest group has books and art works that it wants banned in order to prevent the spread of misogynist, racist, and antisemitic views. It’s not just Shakespeare and Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn and the Uncle Remus stories and Little Black Sambo that have been banned. A large range of classic literature goes untaught due to professors’ fears that they will be labeled an antisemite or racist for teaching a book accused of having politically incorrect views or expressions..........more.........