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Sidsy's avatar

'cultish midwits' indeed. Who even takes these people seriously? Not anyone who loves Shakespeare, that's for sure.

Meanwhile, I am off to see the brilliant Lord Chamberlain's Men performing Twelfth Night next Saturday night. Tickets have sold like hot cakes. And, looking at the weather forecast, it may even be one of those rare outdoor productions in England where we don't have to take thick jackets, blankets and umbrellas -Yay!

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Patrick Graham's avatar

Silly buggers - they need to remember that since before Shakespeare's time slavery was dominantly an African led industry,

Sure, white men bought slaves off African tribes who had enslaved people of other African tribes, and did horrific things to them, but this white guilt telescope is so bloody useless at seeing the wider picture...

and always manages to miss how the Barbary coast Muslims enslaved more white Europeans over a longer, and nearer to contemporary, time period than Europeans enslaved Africans.

What this has to do with Shakespeare, god only knows.

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