Shakespeare Isn't P.C. (Thought Police Rewrite Textbooks)

NewMax.Com ^ | Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2003 | staff writer

[Gorzaloon]

Works of literature written before 1970 are almost always taboo because they are bound to have something politically incorrect in them.

It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

[goldstategop]

Liberals want a bland culture. They want a culture as schoolmarmish and humorless as they are.

[TomGuy]

-"Cowgirl" and "cowboy" should be replaced with "cowhand."

Cowhand? What about the bull. The list is full of bull--and the bull's by-product.

[ClearCase_guy]

So, there I was working on a crossword puzzle, and Number 9 down is "person who can't hear or speak". I'm thinking it will be an 8-letter word, but then I realize that the answer will be "person who can't hear or speak". Gee, not as challenging as they used to be.

[jjm2111]

Do we really have to excerpt NEWSMAX?

[Missus]

It's also a very good reason to teach at home using REAL books instead of textbooks, and to stage a conservative, non-PC, non-revisionist coup of the local school board.

Regards

[jjm2111]

You linked a popup ad, BTW.

[pogo101]

O Brave New World! I'll get the book bonfire ready for the libs.

[GSWarrior]

Your link brings up a Newsmax advertisement. Rest of the story is not there.

[HenryLeeII]

Well, I think 'Eve and Adam' should be replaced by 'Adam and Eve' to show that women don't take precedence over men, and 'people who can't hear or speak' should be replaced by something less awkward, such as 'deaf-mute. Also, the term 'politically correct' should be replaced by something more accurately descriptive, such as 'immoral fascist simpleton.'

[KarlInOhio]

"Cowgirl" and "cowboy" should be replaced with "cowhand."

Cowhand is offensive to those "people with congenital disabilities" who were born without arms.

[LiberalSlayer99]

It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Awesome choice for a Shakespeare quote. I was thinking of a good Shakespeare quote...but the one you picked was ideal! I think it's time to read MacBeth again!

[LiberalSlayer99]

It's also a very good reason to teach at home using REAL books instead of textbooks, and to stage a conservative, non-PC, non-revisionist coup of the local school board.

Fortunately, I'm sending my son to a private school where he'll read classic literature, and where the term "well-rounded education" doesn't include political correct revisionism. I've given up on the public school system.

[TomGuy]

"Cowgirl" and "cowboy" should be replaced with "cowhand."

Cowhand is offensive to those "people with congenital disabilities" who were born without arms.

It just emphasizes how stupid these revisionists are---but...

--who appointed them to be the moral revisionists of literature?

--how do they get away with intimidating publishers to make the changes they want?

[yankeedame]

You linked a popup ad, BTW.

LOL! Hey, tanks for the heads-up, but ,heck, what can I say? When I mess up I don't go half way!

Oh, and the reason I posted only part of the article is b/c the article itself is somewhat long.So I thought I'd error on the side of causion.

But if anyone wants to check out the complete article, click here: Shakespeare Isn't P.C.

[Sloth]

-"Huts" is branded as ethnocentric and should be replaced with small houses.

[Paleo Conservative]

The bowdlerizers strike again.

[onedoug]

Knock,
knock! Who's there, in the other devil's
name? Faith, here's an equivocator, that could
swear in both the scales against either scale;
who committed treason enough for God's sake,
yet could not equivocate to heaven: O, come
in, equivocator.

[Gorzaloon]

It's also a very good reason to teach at home using REAL books instead of textbooks, and to stage a conservative, non-PC, non-revisionist coup of the local school board.

Is that another way of taking arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing, end(ing) them? :-)