Wokies Warned to Beware of Shakespeare

A portrait of William Shakespeare. The Arts and Humanities Research Council claims 'disproportionate representation' by William Shakespeare has propagated 'white, able-bodied, heterosexual, cisgender male narratives'

Shakespeare's works have wokest warnings EVER slapped on them - telling terrified Gen Z to beware

A university has slapped Shakespeare's works with hundreds of trigger warnings, warning nervous Gen Z students to watch out.

The University of the West of England (UWE), in Bristol, hit out at 220 of the Bard's works and famous TV and stage adaptations of them in guidance for drama students. 

For one of the writer's final plays, The Tempest, intrepid viewers are warned that there may be 'extreme weather', 'depiction of magic' and - in one particular 2016 stage version - 'popping of balloons' involved. 

Warnings on The Winter's Tale - remembered for its famous line, 'Exit, pursued by a bear', referencing death by bear claws for one of the characters - caution of 'references to wild animal attack'. 

Terrifying scenes of 'puppetry' and 'pregnancy' are among the long list of things to watch out for in this particular play too.

The University of the West of England (pictured) in Bristol hit out at 220 of the bard's works and famous TV and stage adaptations of them in guidance for drama students. Beware of 'family trauma' and 'psychological distress' in Macbeth.

Beware of 'family trauma' and 'psychological distress' in Macbeth, UWE warns.

For Much Ado About Nothing, a comedy centering on a tangled quartet of lovers, students are advised it contains 'treatment of women' - inevitable, perhaps, for a play featuring female characters. 

Romeo and Juliet - famous for its tale of star-crossed lovers who both die at the end - contains, to not many people's surprise, 'death', 'suicide', 'violence', 'knives' and 'blood'. 

William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. 

UWE said: 'Content warnings were previously requested by students with sensory processing issues and experiences of trauma.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14370731/Shakespeares-works-wokest-warnings-slapped-telling-terrified-Gen-Z-beware-dirt-puppetry.html

Author Lionel Shriver told the Sunday Telegraph that Shakespeare would outlast 'this dogmatic mangling', adding: 'His plays will continue to be enjoyed long after today's 'intersectional' performances have foreshortened into a freakish comical footnote in theatrical history.'

Comedian Andrew Doyle said: 'There's a very good reason why Shakespeare is performed frequently.

'Shakespeare was by far a superior playwright. Yet again, ideologues are reducing great art to mere mechanisms for the promotion of an ideology.'

Cisgender is used to describe a person whose gender identity corresponds with their sex at birth.

Dr José Pérez Díez of the British Shakespeare Society said: ‘We believe Shakespeare’s international cultural impact is one of the strongest cultural assets of the English language and its heritage.

The English playwright, poet, and actor William Shakespeare is widely believed to have been the greatest dramatist of all time

The family home: Shakespeare's birthplace on Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire

Kronborg Castle, the world-famous setting for Shakespeare's Hamlet [I visited it once-AA]

 The castle is located in Helsingor, Denmark, and has 'pointy turrets and cannons galore' 

Helsingor is a 'fine example of a Danish medieval town, with cobbled streets, a beautiful Carmelite Priory, and a great Maritime Museum'

Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen

Globe Theatre issues trigger warning to Shakespeare audiences that Antony and Cleopatra contains 'depictions of suicide, violence and war' (after warning that Julius Caesar includes knives and Midsummer Night's Dream has 'sexual references')

Theatre-goers are also warned that the play is discriminatory to black women as it features misogynoir references' .

A Globe production of Julius Caesar, which depicts the fatal stabbing of the Roman dictator, warned its audiences that the play would include 'depictions of war, self-harm and suicide, stage blood and weapons including knives.'

Similarly a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream warned that the fairy-tale-like play contained 'language of violence, sexual references, misogyny and racism'.

The Globe Theatre 

Elizabeth Taylor in the 1963 movie of Cleopatra

Directors, actors and producers in the field slammed the 'ludicrous' warnings.

Gregory Doran, who became artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2012 has blasted trigger warnings for audiences

Sir Ian McKellen also ridiculed and blasted trigger warnings.

Ralph Fiennes, starring in Shakespeare's Macbeth, called for the end to trigger warnings 

Bosses of the London's world-renowned Globe theatre were slammed after they provided warnings ahead of Shakespeare's centuries-old play Julies Caesar

Actor Christopher Biggins blasted the theatre: 'Do we have to have signs for everything under the sun. It's a joke. What they are trying to do is insulting to the mentality of theatre-goers.'

Advice from Ilhan Omar

Ilhan Omar's scathing reaction to deportation calls after giving advice to undocumented migrants

Ilhan Omar has hit back at Texas lawmaker Brandon Gill after he claimed 'America would be a better place' if the Somali-American politician were deported.

Omar, 42, a representative for Minnesota's 5th congressional district, responded to Gill's call for her to be removed from the US by calling him a 'dumbass,' as per Politico.

Gill, 30, a Republican congressman from the Lone Star State, posted to X on Tuesday: 'America would be a better place if @IlhanMN were deported back to Somalia.'

Ilhan Omar issued a searing response to Texas lawmaker Brandon Gill after he claimed 'America would be a better place' if the Somali-American politician were deported 

The attack came as the Democratic politician informed Somalis who are 'undocumented or whose documentation might have lapsed' on what they should do if questioned by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in a now-viral clip.

'We should have never let Ilhan Omar into our country,' Gill, who is currently serving his first-term as the state's 26th district representative, also posted to X.

His comments linked back to a clip shared by another X user, depicting the Minnesota Democrat's interview with a reporter discussing her 'illegal immigrant' advocacy program.

A spokesperson for Gill acknowledged the congressman's controversial call, claiming her actions were 'disgraceful.'

'Representative Omar's conduct raises questions about to whom she is most loyal- the American people or illegal aliens from Somalia,' a spokesperson for Gill told The Hill.

'Representative Gill simply stated that it is disgraceful for a sitting Congresswoman and US citizen to facilitate the invasion of our country by illegal alien Somalis.'

Omar came to the US as a refugee in 1995 and became a naturalized citizen at 17 years old in 2000. She has held the her position as a representative of the state's 5th congressional district since January 3, 2019.

The 42-year-old politician informed Somalians who are 'undocumented or who their documentation might have lapsed' on what they should do if questioned by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in the now-viral clip.

'You are not obligated to answer their questions. Just state that your are advised by a lawyer not to answer questions,' she said in the near-minute long video.

'Disclosure of your name, immigration status, and the mode of entry is not mandatory. Learn the laws and prepare yourself and refrain from disclosing information that you prefer them not to know,' Omar added.

Elon Musk, 53, close ally to President Donald Trump, was among the many whom reacted to the recently surfaced clip of the Somali-American, writing Tuesday that 'she is breaking the law. Literally. Outright.'

Omar also took to X, formerly Twitter, to call the world's richest man a 'clown.'

The Minnesota lawmaker (right) previously faced deportation calls last year after a clip of her speech, which was delivered in Somali, sparked heavy backlash 

The Minnesota lawmaker previously faced deportation calls last year after a clip of her speech, which was delivered in Somali, sparked heavy backlash.

Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, 50,  told reporters 'I would love to expel her; I think she should be deported, I honestly do.'

The outcry for the congresswoman's removal from the country comes during the largest mass deportation effort in US history. 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14365863/ilhan-omar-reacts-deportation-calls-undocumented-migrants.html

Omar's History:

https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/ilhan-omar/

* Born in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1982
* Daughter of a Communist father who entered the U.S. illegally
* Joined the Muslim Students Association in college
* Married her own brother to perpetrate immigration fraud and/or student loan fraud while married to another man

* Member of the Congressional Black Caucus & the Congressional Progressive Caucus
* Views America as a nation infested with white racism
* Supports the “Defund-the-Police” movement
* Detests Israel, Jews, and white males
* Was involved in ballot-harvesting and ballot-tampering schemes in 2020
* Favors amnesty & a path-to-citizenship for illegal aliens
* Was removed from the House Foreign Affairs Committee in 2023

Background

The youngest of seven siblings, Ilhan Omar was born in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1982. Her father, Nur Omar Mohamed (aka Nur Said Elmi Mohamed), was a party propagandist for Siad Barre, who ruled as the Marxist dictator of Somalia from 1969-91. Moreover, Mr. Mohamed was a colonel in the Somali army in the 1970s and 1980s, during which time he received a military education in the Soviet Union. Mohamed and his family fled that country after Barre’s fall from power in the civil war of 1991 and spent four years in a Kenyan refugee camp before subsequently migrating to America. Mohamed’s entry into the U.S. was illegal, however, because he never revealed his communist background on his Form N-400, Application for Naturalization, thereby violating the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965’s explicit prohibition on naturalization for anyone who, in the preceding ten years, had been had been “involved with the Communist Party or any other totalitarian party of the U.S. or any foreign state, or who advocate[d] world communism or totalitarian dictatorship even without formal group membership.”

Marital & Extramarital Scandals

In an effort to perpetrate immigration fraud and/or student loan fraud – she married her own brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elm.

Lots more at the Frontpage article: https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/ilhan-omar/

Elon Musk goes to war on Ilhan Omar over seminars for Somalis on how to avoid ICE

Elon Musk has blasted Minnesota's Somali-American Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar for providing advice to illegal migrants on how to avoid ICE.

The billionaire 'first buddy' shared a video on X depicting the Democrat's interview with a reporter discussing her 'illegal immigrant' advocacy program. 

Omar, 42, informed Somalis who are 'undocumented or whose documentation might have lapsed' on what they should do if questioned by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in the now-viral clip. 

'I advise the Somalian people that if ICE attempts to question you, you are not obligated to answer their questions. Just state that you are advised by a lawyer not to answer questions,' Omar said in the near-minute-long video.

'Disclosure of your name, immigration status, and the mode of entry is not mandatory. Learn the laws and prepare yourself and refrain from disclosing information that you prefer them not to know.'

Musk shared the video posted by another X user, with the caption, 'She is breaking the law. Literally. Outright.'

The viral video prompted Texas lawmaker Brandon Gill to call for Omar to be deported and claim she should have 'never been let into the country.'

Gill, 30, a Republican congressman from the Lone Star State, claimed on X: 'America would be a better place if @IlhanMN were deported back to Somalia.'

Omar, 42, informed Somalians who are 'undocumented or whose documentation might have lapsed' on what they should do if questioned by ICE

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14363863/elon-musk-war-illhan-omar-somalis-ice.html

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