ASU Professor Decolonizes Shakespeare
Of course
ASU Gets the Daily Wire Spotlight—Twice
I don’t know about you, but I am sick and tired of Shakespeare going around colonizing everyone. It needs to stop. Thankfully, an ASU professor is doing what needs to be done.
Arizona State University had quite the Daily Wire feature today. First, my article on ASU’s two federal investigations—one for antisemitism, the other for racial discrimination against white people—was published. Then, Matt Walsh took a closer look at one of ASU’s highly celebrated English professors and her groundbreaking work in—you’ll never guess—decolonizing Shakespeare.
I have to confess something. I’m a little envious. And, according to ASU humanities professors, envy is actually a virtue—a tool for self-discovery as we critique our own oppression and the privilege of others. So, by their own standard, it’s good that I’m envious Matt Walsh didn’t feature me. Right?
But then, it wasn’t exactly good attention. Matt correctly pointed out that “decolonization is always a cover for anti-white hatred and ultimately for racial violence.” Yet, as he notes, no other country has managed to produce its own Shakespeare—so instead of admiring him, they must tear him down.
You all know that I’ve personally been asked to "decolonize" my classroom before. The directive came from the director of my school, meaning there was an unmistakable power imbalance. The person in charge wanted his ideology enforced on our curriculum and into our classrooms. And when those in power privilege their own perspective, dissenters are “otherized” and put under the oppositional gaze. I was told in many non-verbal ways “you’re not part of the group, you’re not wanted here, go away.” The micro-aggressions really hurt my feelings. I’m very sensitive. If you cut me, do I not bleed?
The "decolonizers" and DEI social justice warriors are quick to decry power imbalances—until they have power. And once they do, they don’t hesitate to force compliance with their philosophy. The truth is, their ideology is fueled by racial hatred, and they only thinly disguise it—until the moment they can fully express it. Their entire worldview has been shaped by bitterness, and despite all their education, they’ve never arrived at a better solution to the problem of suffering.
It’s tragic. Shakespeare level tragic.
I’ve mentioned my colleague who says she supports free speech—oh, how kind of her!—but who does not want racists on campus. The real question is: Does she speak out against anti-white racists?
Do you need a hint?
The irony is that "decolonizing" is an Orwellian term for colonizing. In every DEI "workshop" I was forced to attend, it was led by a Dominican insisting that there's something wrong with American culture that she intends to repair by calling a room full of people "racists," and by forcing them to teach content from cultures other than their own.
That's colonizing, folks.
The intent of pseudo-intellectuals living off of the redistribution of compelled taxpayer wealth has always been to destroy the subject they are purportedly expert in and which they ought to cherish.
But they cherish nothing. There is only emptiness and rage boiling inside.
None of what they write can be analyzed seriously, because none of it makes any sense. It is gibberish. That is the only thing anyone need say about it.