ASU students condemn so-called “White possession” of Shakespeare.
Arizona State College college particularly criticized “white exceptionalism” in literary research, in response to The College Fix.
Based on The School Repair, “Two college members condemned “white possession” of Shakespeare and the state’s manipulation of black historical past throughout an “Appropriation Sequence” at Arizona State College final week.”
These college members additionally included an English professor named Ruben Espinosa who made the absurd argument that Shakespeare’s legacy has been “manipulated” to be considered by the lens of White supremacy.
In fact, as to be anticipated this liberal professor added January sixth to the equation saying that for J6 “insurrectionists”, Shakespeare represents “White exceptionalism”.
“It type of has this origin in anti-immigrant sentiments, proper, all the way in which to January sixth, once we take into consideration that white exceptionalism, and this notion of a type of white possession of Shakespeare,” Espinosa mentioned.
“Shakespeare wouldn’t have come throughout as a black individual or a non-white individual within the entirety of his life,” he added.
“Shakespeare sits atop of that racial hierarchy. He’s the epitome of what they think about white exceptionalism…and because of this he’s helpful,” the professor foolishly proclaimed.
This professor went on to proclaim that The Shakespeare Library was based on anti-immigrant rhetoric.
“The primary director of the library, Joseph Quincy Adams” noticed the establishment as “a preservation of the language of the American folks at a time when immigrants are coming in like locusts to steal our tradition, to steal our language.”
“That is the way in which he imagined immigration,” Espinosa mentioned.
In different phrases, within the worldview of this ASU professor, not solely was Shakespeare a racist determine, however so was the founding father of his library.
