Like a hell-broth boil and bubble

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The dead white male known as Shakespeare has long been in the the bad books of the woke crowd, but just when you think they’ve finished beating that horse to death, out comes a new whip.

Now, however, an American expert has sparked uproar by claiming that the play’s references to darkness are an attempt to reinforce ideas of white supremacy.

Kathryn Vomero Santos, an assistant professor of English at Trinity University in Texas, insists the Bard’s use of words such as bat, beetle, black and night are examples of ‘racialised’ language.

47 Replies to “Like a hell-broth boil and bubble”

  1. Kathryn Vomero Santos can f@@k right off. Useless biatch. Poster scrunt for why every discipline beyond STEM is worthless.

    1. Not all disciplines are useless. I am certain that you don’t mind the writings and musings of Victor Davis Hanson, the classicist, of the Hoover Institution, for example, or Thomas Sowell on economics. It really depends on the practitioner, not the discipline itself. I will grant that some “studies” disciplines are pretty much just a twist away from Political Science, and a lot of fantasy theories have arisen because of government sponsored nonsense.

    1. So good old Billy Shakespeare knew BLM was a thing.. Good for Billy. We should have listened to him.

  4. The black beetle was bitten by the bat at night. Yes, this is clearly racist. And this from an assistant professor. Imagine what a fully tenured professor could write?

  5. Progressive “scholars” are in competition with each other to demonstrate the evils of western culture. The winners get tenure, fame, book deals, and speaking engagements.

    But there’s not much solid evidence of that in the modern era so they push the boundaries. And then push more. And then push some more, until they hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows

    1. This is the nature of academia. No matter how absurd the statement may be from one of them, you can always whip up something even stupider. Wokeism naturally lends itself to idiots. The humanities and social sciences are particularly prone to this sort of nonsense.

      1. Pretty soon, as in Japan, humanities will no longer be fully funded. Cash-strapped governments will be angling for deep cuts to manage collapsing budgets. Humanities will be at the same level as “hobbies”, and trades and STEM will take over as the place to send kids before they go off to work.

  6. It’s becoming too often that those that never left school are uniquely qualified for idiots, not as an insult, rather as a medical condition.
    As impossible as it sound, some of them have their heads stuck up their asses.
    They have obviously parked in a rut and perhaps think that they can shoot the shit because they are, after all, academics.
    They of course can, though there should also be those that should point it out and perhaps tell them to go sell shoes or something.
    This is not to downgrade people that sell shoes.
    Lately there have been rather large number of cases where these people go on with the wildest phantasies, which they believe to be true and still teach the young feeble minds.

    2. Bacon was a major thinker. Shakespeare far surpassed him. Shakespeare extended Bacon’s use of the four Greek causes to seven causes and intuited complex adaptive system theory in every important respect. Bacon fizzled in a failed attempt to operationalize induction.

    3. From Bill Bryson’s “Shakespeare”

      “In short it is possible, with a kind of selective squinting, to endow the alternative claimants with the necessary time, talent and motive for anonymity to write the plays of William Shakespeare. But no one has ever produced the tiniest particle of evidence to suggest that they actually did so”.

      And

      “Only one man had the circumstances and gifts to give us the incomparable works, and William Shakespeare of Stratford was unquestionably that man – whoever he was”.

      1. And you can follow the story of Delia Bacon’s linking of Francis Bacon to the plays in Bryson’s book

        1. Shakespeare relied heavily on Bacon in All’s Well that Ends Well, Measure for Measure, Troilus & Cressida (although likely more Giordano Bruno than Bacon) and Coriolanus. The usurped and banished Duke in As You Like It seems to be Bacon, and Shakespeare is Jaques. Shakespeare refers to Bacon in the Epilogue of The Tempest. Shakespeare’s physics builds on and advances from Bruno and Bacon. Shakespeare’s theory of Justice relies heavily on Bacon and possibly Queen Elizabeth.

          This all becomes apparent once you break the mnemonic code that Shakespeare used to structure 15 of his late plays.

          1. Touchstone in As You Like It essentially tells you you need to figure out the argument on the seventh cause. Alls Well gives you the first four, from Bacon, and the unreliability of Paroles—all likely from an early draft of Novum Organum. The Romances present the other three, each in dreams. Like Kekule’s dream vision of the snake eating its tail to lead him to the ring structure of benzene, as discussed by Cormac McCarthy in his essay The Kekule Problem. Bacon in Novum Organum never got nearly as far as Shakespeare.

  11. “Kathryn Vomero Santos”

    Women with two last names are insane left wing lunatics. Avoid them like the plague. If you do have to work with them, antagonize them as much as possible. They love to fly off the handle.

    1. That’s a pretty broad assumption. I have two last names. There are legitimate reasons why a woman might want to be known that way. I’ve bern on this site a long time. With a few exceptions people here are less knee- jerk and more oenminded than that comment made you sound.

      1. Yes, some of these women are merely Spanish, which is not quite the same as left-wing lunatic, although I admit it can be a difficult call.

    1. Wherefore is’t yond most of these bizarre accusations of white supremacy art ultimately concoct’d by white distaff?

    1. A friend in Uni had a hyphenated name, because the groom’s family had money but was untitled, and the bride had no brothers or cousins to carry on the name. Over 2 centuries before feminism. English to the core, by his told family history.

    1. Why racialize it? There are lots of stupid people who will re-enforce regardless of skin colour. Those who put down their own ancestory have feelings of inferiority because they know they contribute nothing.

      I know that’s a fact because I just made it up. Isn’t that how modern academia works?

  19. How can she tolerate cruising down the highway with all those racist lines running down the middle and along the shoulder? I think she’d be frothing after a few hundred meters.

    “WHITE SUPREMACY!!! Black asphalt with WHITE LINES on TOP!!! It’s always whitey trying to keep the black down.”

  21. Vomero Santos seems to have missed the point of Shakespeare’s “Othello”.

    Some “scholar”!

    One of my more “forthright” retired military associates refers to persons like this as “Tracer-bait”.

    Quite frankly, I would not waste good ammo to dignify such creatures with a quick, merciful demise. They deserve to be carefully set aside and then handed to the unfortunates whose lives they have ruined with their malicious rantings..

  22. Go over to Tik History on yt, for a vicious debunking of the economics of university studies. Essentially, a plumber outperforms a tenured professor on average, over the long run. Turns out time value of money, and when you buy your first house and get out of debt, are actually a thing. Who knew?

  23. So… the author identifies as a black eater of night-soil?

    Aren’t there several mental health flags in that comment?

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