To: Borges
Lot of offensive things in Shakespeare too.
They could just rewrite them.
Start with the phrase “The first thing we do is kill all of the lawyers.”
13 posted on
01/04/2011 5:32:59 PM PST by
bill1952
(Choice is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
To: bill1952
Yes. Context matters, whether you're quoting Dick the Butcher, or Huckleberry Finn. If we cherry-picked fine literature for all “offensive” quotes; we'd be left with dross.
To: bill1952
Shakespeare is just another dead white guy.....too passe for the modern ‘intellectual’.
84 posted on
01/05/2011 7:36:54 AM PST by
rottndog
(There is no such thing as an 'intellectual' socialist.)
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