[C19fan]

This happened at Williams College in Massachusetts. Between this and schools banning "Vagina Monologues" perhaps only the "Angels in America" gay fest will be performed.

[Leep]

Before long the federal government will require it.

[chris37]

Do not make the Comfortable Fascists uncomfortable.

If there is one thing that they will not abide, it’s being uncomfortable.

They will kill you to achieve their desired comfort level if they must, so you had best make sure that the little Comfortable Fascists are f***in’ comfortable.

[PIF]

College cancels play by black playwright because it might harm black people because it might make them smarter.

[Tax-chick]

“Aleshea Harris has written an extraordinary play-in-progress that explores vital questions about the legacies of violence that formed the United States and continue to ghost its contemporary epoch,” it read:

As the artistic and production team moved through the creative process, the material provoked extensive and necessary internal conversations. Students in the cast expressed a desire not to move forward with the project and we have decided to cancel the scheduled performances.

The play description warned potential patrons that it deals with “abjection and settler violence” and includes “gun violence, self-harm, nooses and hanging, animal cruelty, silhouetted nudity/sex acts and infant death.” It centers around a “ghost town” paying for the sins it tried to hide.

It sounds utterly wretched. One way of looking at this is that people should not have to present a play that's absolute garbage just because the playwright is black.

[Larry Lucido]

They should have gone with “La Cocina.”

[Little Ray]

The play sounds like a soggy sack of crap.
While I am not for ‘banning’ anything, the students might have done their fellows a good turn by sparing them.

[GingisK]

They did this long ago when they banned those fabulous Uncle Remus stories.

[golux]

When I was in college we did plays all the time... All sorts of stuff. Sure, there was the Vagina crap but also Shakespeare and I was in a very controversial “New Black Play.” (I played the bad guy... The only white one.) Yep, we were mostly lefties or swimming in lefty.

But:

The thought of a college official “cancelling” a play organized by any of us or our organizations would have been laughable.

Then again, that was back before so many colleges became not only Commie indoctrination centers but snowflake playgrounds for nanny-state pussy losers.

[Calvin Locke]

One girl in my HS class went to Williams, a year after a Seagrams heir was “kidnapped”.

[Albion Wilde]

"I will be on the faculty for the rest of the year, doing my best to encourage a culture where creation is valued as highly as critique."

Yeah, lotsa luck with that in any academic venue.