re: #53 DodgerFan1988

Yeah but this is inauthentic performance for a social media audience that wants to be racist but also needs to pretend to self-defense of their culture and thus must deilberately create offense through disingenuous parsing of any available stimulus.

It’s like when a abusive husband arrives home in a bad mood and stalks about trying to find a pretext to unleash on his wife and kids: the very act of assuming the performance is authentic…even if the “authentic” reaction is embarrassing or even shameful…grants the abuser license.

Bridgette Gabriel wants to give her audience what they want: the titallation of outrage, the pretext for racism but also the pretext for a total culture system in which whiteness is the only acceptable representation of personhood.

The audience understands what is being offered and will in turn suspend their factual understanding of what a play is because that isn’t important compared to the long term project of making their nipples hard with pleasurable contempt as they imagine how ugly and stupid it is to have nonwhites doing Shakespeare.

Neither the poster nor their respondents care about Shakespearean canon, only that Shakespeare can be weaponized to promote whiteness—an amorphous, deliberately-hollow construct that actually strips away regional European culture to invent a synthetic “nothing but the best bits” luncheon-meat bloc that is effectively the culture of nowhere and no-one…including it’s defender, who don’t give two tugs of dead dog’s cock what counts as quality literature because they’re incapable of perceiving media as anything but a confirmation of their own superiority.