Death threats, rape threats pouring into "Shakespeare" companies and theaters

[Brittain33]

People outraged at a presentation of Julius Caesar with a Trump stand-in in NYC are now calling in vicious death threats and rape threats to companies with "Shakespeare" in the name—theaters or otherwise.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/style/2017/06/16/knives-are-out-for-theaters-that-bear-name-shakespeare/BjIuTepxxULJHZvTAQmF6H/story.html?event=event25

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[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

How very strange that there was no outrage five years ago, when they did the same thing.
I can't imagine what possible difference there could be.

http://www.startribune.com/trump-themed-julius-caesar-is-talk-of-theater-world-unlike-2012-obama-version-in-twin-cities/427990033/

[KingSweden]

"Now I know Shakespeare isn't for everyone - mostly just PEOPLE WHO READ"

- Anthony Jeselnik

[Person Man]

Like to see them try to do something.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

It's all rather vile. And the reaction of corporate sponsors pulling out reminds me how uneasy I was at the "victory" of getting sponsors to withdraw from various trashy tabloid right outlets - all it does is highlight the degree to which corporations control the arts, and will protect their bottom line by any means.

And yes, one would have to be an extraordinary dunce to think that Julius Caesar advocates for political assisinations; not to mention the play (like most of Shakespeare's tragedies) is constantly reappriaoted to fit in with contemporary figures - heck Shakespeare himself was probably writing with a certain senile queen in mind.

[KingSweden]

Say what you will aboudo Ben Shapiro, but he didn't mince words about that the Shakespeare protestors on Twitter last night

[kyc0705]

Funnily enough, I was just flipping through the play in question, and found this line:

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—Julius Caesar, Act IV, Scene III

Seriously, though, this whole "controversy" is a bunch of nonsense garbage, and it's a shame, if unsurprising, that large swaths of the population are drawing the connotation that artists = enemies.

[HAnnA MArin County]

What a bunch of snowflakes. What about FREE SPEECH?!?!?!

Lord, what fools these [Trumptards] be.

[136or142]

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About 50% of accounts demanding a Julius Caesar staging be closed because it offends them have "not politically correct" in their profiles.

[KingSweden]

These snowflakes are sissies who can dish it out but can't take it back

[ProudModerate2]

These snowflakes are sissies who can dish it out but can't take it back

[Cactus Jack]

To think this is the same crowd who accuses other people of being "triggered".

[EnglishPete]

What a bunch of snowflakes. What about FREE SPEECH?!?!?!

Lord, what fools these [Trumptards] be.

I would have thought you'd approve. Isn't engaging in political activism by disrupting someone else's stage all the rage these days. Surely these people are just engaging in the fine American tradition of engaging in political activism through direct action and civil disobedience, or do you not approve of direct action and civil disobedience?

[7,052,770]

If we weren't in the Dark Timeline, conservatives would be loving the Shakespeare in the Park production with a female Julius Caesar in a pantsuit.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

If we weren't in the Dark Timeline, conservatives would be loving the Shakespeare in the Park production with a female Julius Caesar in a pantsuit.

Nah. They'd be simultaneously upset that the production was letting a woman play Caesar, and complaining about how it legitimized Hillary's dictatorial ambitions. (They'd be fine with the murder scene though, and images of it would be making the rounds of anywhere vaguely GOP-leaning on the internet for the next 10 years. Trump would probably tweet one.)

[pbrower2a]

There are obvious non-parallels, but I can imagine a setting of Julius Caesar place in April 1865 with you-know-who as the victim.

[Person Man]

What a bunch of snowflakes. What about FREE SPEECH?!?!?!

Lord, what fools these [Trumptards] be.

I would have thought you'd approve. Isn't engaging in political activism by disrupting someone else's stage all the rage these days. Surely these people are just engaging in the fine American tradition of engaging in political activism through direct action and civil disobedience, or do you not approve of direct action and civil disobedience?

So does that mean its OK to throw trigger tantrums?

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Trumpists have been disrupting the plays performance. I applaud this.

[Badger]

Trumpists have been disrupting the plays performance. I applaud this.

Of course you do you jackbooted Thug.

Jesus Christ, you are one triggering moment away from wearing going full kristallnacht Ford if you're a trump aren't you?

[ApatheticAustrian]

nazi: 1
culturalist: 0

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Trumpists have been disrupting the plays performance. I applaud this.

Of course you do you jackbooted Thug.

Jesus Christ, you are one triggering moment away from wearing going full kristallnacht Ford if you're a trump aren't you?

I fail to see how one woman running on stage and calling the crowd out is comparable to antifa cracking skulls on campuses, but whatever.

nazi: 1
culturalist: 0

He's just pissed that his fifteen minutes of fame ended with him being punched. Cernovich and company didn't (and shouldn't have) stood up for him,

[Badger]

Trumpists have been disrupting the plays performance. I applaud this.

Of course you do you jackbooted Thug.

Jesus Christ, you are one triggering moment away from wearing going full kristallnacht Ford if you're a trump aren't you?

I fail to see how one woman running on stage and calling the crowd out is comparable to antifa cracking skulls on campuses, but whatever.

nazi: 1
culturalist: 0

He's just pissed that his fifteen minutes of fame ended with him being punched. Cernovich and company didn't (and shouldn't have) stood up for him,

Maybe because one is is fully supported endorsed by one of the major parties in this country, and the other is literally about 1000 college kids with zero support from the Democratic Party question mark but hey a false equivalency is false. Go figure, it's another Sanchez post

[Since I'm the mad scientist proclaimed by myself]

Trumpists have been disrupting the plays performance. I applaud this.

Of course you do you jackbooted Thug.

Jesus Christ, you are one triggering moment away from wearing going full kristallnacht Ford if you're a trump aren't you?

I fail to see how one woman running on stage and calling the crowd out is comparable to antifa cracking skulls on campuses, but whatever.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-hate-crimes-20-percent-2016-fueled-election-campaign-n733306

But keep shouting "muh antifa" to justify the murder and harrassment done by your buddies.

"reformed" my ass

[The Mikado]

It's all rather vile. And the reaction of corporate sponsors pulling out reminds me how uneasy I was at the "victory" of getting sponsors to withdraw from various trashy tabloid right outlets - all it does is highlight the degree to which corporations control the arts, and will protect their bottom line by any means.

And yes, one would have to be an extraordinary dunce to think that Julius Caesar advocates for political assisinations; not to mention the play (like most of Shakespeare's tragedies) is constantly reappriaoted to fit in with contemporary figures - heck Shakespeare himself was probably writing with a certain senile queen in mind.

Caesar's assassins are clearly and definitively shown as making a wrong and calamitous decision and paying for it with their lives and the destruction of everything they believe in. Anyone who comes out of that play thinking "Shakespeare supports assassination" missed the entire point of the production. Brutus and Cassius lose everything and destroy the last vestiges of the Republic they loved and ended up losing their own lives as Caesar's vengeful heirs use the tragedy to consolidate power.

[pbrower2a]

Remember Caesar Mr. President: thou art mortal.