Reason
Bright Sheng is a professor of composition at the University of Michigan. He was born in China in 1955; when he was a child, the Red Guards took away his family piano. Nevertheless, he grew up to become a widely celebrated musician: He received a MacArthur “genius” Fellowship in 2001, and has twice been a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize in music.
His undergraduate students should certainly count themselves lucky to be able to learn from him. Instead, they are demanding the university fire him for rendering the classroom an unsafe space. The administration is looking into the matter, and Sheng has stepped down from teaching the class for the time being. He has apologized profusely for making his students feel wronged, though many have loudly rejected his apology.
What was Sheng’s transgression? He screened the 1965 version of Shakespeare’s Othello in class as part of a lesson about how the play was adapted for the opera. More
Woketards are so fucking stupid that they think Context is something you enter to with a trip to Xan Francixco. And the administrator who caved to this stupid shit is a fucking gutless PoS of the first order.
“Put out the light, and then put out the light.”
-Shakespeare, “Othello”, Act 5, Scene 2
The average woketard’s hero is Iago.
For what did he apologize?
It isn’t his fault that his students are imbeciles.
izlamo delenda est …
Professor, the Bard says it’s time to leave.
“ I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools. ”
-Shakespeare, “Troilus and Cressida”, Act 2, Scene 1
Wow. Fortunately I have a great copy of the movie “Othello” directed by Orson Welles, who also starred in the title roll. An avant garde film at the time. I highly recommend it IF you can find it (pretty scarce and expensive). As it is, mine is the original film in VHS format.
Michigan again…
Those students and staff really virtue-signaled their superiority, didn’t they? They’re SO smart, SO brave for making us all understand how offended they are. Such courage and virtue! What model citizens! What standouts! Another round of applause for the young, sensitive minds at Michigan’s University of American Communism. They’ll make great community organizers for our future Communist motherland.
He should apologize for wasting his precious time on these little woke turds.
He never should have apologized. NEVER apologize to SJW’s!
Those Who can’t, Teach idiots.
The wokerurds can’t appreciate a man as gifted as Bright Sheng. Brahms would be thunderstruck to hear Shengs arrangement of his Intermezzo opus 118, no. 2 in A
Social juicebox warriors hate talent people more than they loathe themselves.
https://youtu.be/wOlbqOh8NeQ
These woketards would shrivel up and die at the first genuine traumatic event that hits them. They have been coddled and placated far too long.
I remember when learning to read Spanish, I did want to see how they translated
“IAGO
Zounds, sir, you’re robbed! For shame, put on your gown.
Your heart is burst, you have lost half your soul.
Even now, now, very now, an old black ram
Is tupping your white ewe.”
“Othello”, Act 1, Scene 1
…but they simply left the line out.
Seems like NO ONE can just let Shakespeare be Shakespeare, and it’s actually a pretty funny line in a story that’s Dark in more ways than one.
FWIW, my name is an apparent translation. Doesn’t seem too awful, considering they left the smothering in and all, but whatevs…
If y’all keep acting up, the prof might whip out his Iambic Pentameter…
Sheng’s crime was teaching opera production. He was supposed to teach anti-racism.
Well that’s funny since some years back both Clinton pedophiles-child traffickers-Epstein/Maxwell associates were displayed with blackface at one of their vile parties yet both were ‘voted” for though the dowdy cankled housewife laughably lost and the Clinton guy went on to porking some white house skank who ended up selling ChiCom-made knock-off designer handbags. We had a name for folks who could not deal with ANY matter whatsoever with the fact that the human gut is tied to the emotions. The term ‘jelly-belly’ is used to describe those who are quivering-weak and weep loudly at every breeze which comes along—-like the simpleton snowflakes they’ve come to also be known as.