{"id":137908,"date":"2021-02-16T14:01:59","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T19:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=137908"},"modified":"2021-02-16T14:43:30","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T19:43:30","slug":"new-round-of-schools-ditching-shakespeare-for-promoting-misogyny-racism-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-round-of-schools-ditching-shakespeare-for-promoting-misogyny-racism-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"New Round Of Schools Ditching Shakespeare For Promoting \u2018Misogyny, Racism,\u2019 And More"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-round-of-schools-ditching-shakespeare-for-promoting-misogyny-racism-and-more%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=137908&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-613469448.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>More schools are announcing they will no longer teach the works of William Shakespeare, claiming his writings promote \u201cmisogyny, racism, homophobia, classism, anti-Semitism, and misogynoir.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The New York Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/02\/16\/shakespeare-ditched-by-woke-teachers-over-misogyny-racism\/\">reported<\/a> that a number of English literature teachers told the School Library Journal that they would no longer be teaching plays such as \u201cHamlet,\u201d \u201cMacbeth,\u201d or \u201cRomeo and Juliet.\u201d The teachers added they would instead \u201cmake room for modern, diverse, and inclusive voices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ayanna Thompson, an English professor at Arizona State University, told SLJ that \u201cShakespeare was a tool used to \u2018civilize\u2019 Black and brown people in England\u2019s empire.\u201d Jeffrey Austin, who leads the English literature department at a Michigan high school, told the outlet that teachers needed to \u201cchallenge the whiteness\u201d that leads to claims that Shakespeare\u2019s works are \u201cuniversal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One former teacher from Washington state, Claire Bruncke, told the outlet that she stopped teaching Shakespeare to \u201cstray from centering the narrative of white, cisgender, heterosexual men.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEliminating Shakespeare was a step I could easily take to work toward that. And it proved worthwhile for my students,\u201d Bruncke added.<\/p>\n<p>While some teachers said they would stop teaching the bard outright, others said they would continue to include his works in their lesson plans but reframe them through modern \u201cwoke\u201d sensibilities. Sarah Mulhern Gross, for example, is an English teacher at New Jersey\u2019s High Technology High School and said she would include \u201ca side of toxic masculinity analysis\u201d when discussing \u201cRomeo and Juliet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The author of the SLJ article, librarian Amanda MacGregor, praised Shakespeare\u2019s \u201cmasterful wordplay, creative use of language, biting wit, puns, and innovative characters,\u201d yet insisted his works were \u201cfull of problematic, outdated ideas, with plenty of misogyny, racism, homophobia, classism, anti-Semitism, and misogynoir.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is just the latest attempts by teachers to stop teaching Shakespeare. Years ago, Yale worked to \u201cdecolonize\u201d its English department, in part by removing the works of Shakespeare from several of its undergraduate classes, The Daily Wire previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/no-more-shakespeare-yale-decolonizes-english-hank-berrien\">reported<\/a>. Just prior to that, Cambridge University in England decided to start adding \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/university-will-now-issue-trigger-warnings-paul-bois\">trigger warnings<\/a>\u201d to plays written by Shakespeare. As The College Fix <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/penn-english-dept-goes-collage-writers-shakespeare-pc-replacement\/\">reported<\/a> in 2016, the University of Pennsylvania removed a portrait of Shakespeare from a building on campus and replaced it \u201cwith a picture of black, feminist, lesbian poet Audre Lorde.\u201d Lorde was subsequently replaced by \u201ca collage&nbsp;of 88 different writers and filmmakers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In July 2017, journalist Toni Airaksinen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/university-hire-professor-can-teach-shakespeare-social-justice-lens\/\">reported<\/a> that California State University-East Bay was looking to hire an assistant professor of English who would teach Shakespeare \u201cthrough the lenses of social justice and identity politics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCandidates must demonstrate awareness of innovative pedagogy and issues of diversity and social justice, as well as evidence of teaching effectiveness,\u201d&nbsp;the school wrote in its hiring post. \u201cCandidates who bring global approaches to their teaching and scholarship are preferred. Candidates who engage with issues of race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality in their teaching and scholarship are preferred.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More schools are announcing they will no longer teach the works of William Shakespeare, claiming his writings promote \u201cmisogyny, racism, homophobia, classism, anti-Semitism, and misogynoir.\u201d The New York Post reported &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2181360,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-613469448.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"New Round Of Schools Ditching Shakespeare For Promoting \u2018Misogyny, Racism,\u2019 And More","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-613469448.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"New Round Of Schools Ditching Shakespeare For Promoting \u2018Misogyny, Racism,\u2019 And More","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2181360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}