Oh yeah, and they also don't understand art. But more importantly, they're also dirty hypocrites. http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/entertainment/julius-caesar-boycott-backlash-1.4158401 And now the Trump fans on the board will explain why free speech is bad, and Shakespeare is an anti-Trump leftist agitator.
They are just complaining because it is their guy. The only people taking them seriously is the media who wants them to watch cable news. Just another thing those nasty millennial are destroying with their modern attitudes about technology.
Art thou orange fans cross? I profane and bite thy thumb with thy unworthiest hand at sir deplorables...
Free speech is good. However, as many have pointed out, free speech often has consequences. Delta & BoA have no obligation to continue funding of this theater and can pull that funding for any reason whatsoever. Both sides of the political aisle play the advertiser boycott card. You loved it when Leftist activists threatened boycotts and got Bill O'Reilly canned. What's good for the goose.....
Yeah, putting on a production of Julius Caesar is exactly like Bill O'Reilly harassing and raping a bunch of ladies.
No one demanded these companies stopping funding the plays. The companies on their own saw this and got scared and pulled off the funding. Well within their rights of course. But this is the culture that the left has created. Attacking sponsors and advertisers is the new thing and the companies are now starting to preempt the protests and yank funding at the slightest hint of controversy. We see this with Megyn Kelly and Alex Jones. She interviewed him and people from Sandy Hook got mad and now sponsors of her show like Chase Bank are pulling their advertising. And it's not like she was throwing softballs at Jones. Apparently he's called the interview a hit job and it shouldn't be aired. But NBC is seriously considering not airing it because they are afraid of boycotts and advertisers pulling their ads. Thank you leftists.
A production of Julius Caesar that needlessly depicts the President of the United States being murdered for shock value.
You are right that companies are running scared, but it's not just leftists, it's social media outrage culture in general. As we've seen, it cuts both ways. People are so quick to react to the next thing that comes over their Twitter feed. Getting to the truth is difficult and time-consuming, clicking an icon is fast and easy. Nobody in business wants the headache of being the target of a social media outrage campaign.
And if it was an Obama caricature being murdered and advertisers pulled their money, not a peep would be heard from you. In fact you'd be pontificating on the deteriorating nature of American political discourse and lamenting the fact that 3rd rate provocateurs had to resort to such tactics.
Dear Bank of America: Thank you for pulling your support from the Public Theater’s production of Julius Caesar. I don’t think you quite realize what you’ve actually done. Perhaps you thought you’d polish your image following your complicity in the subprime debacle by supporting “free theater” in as visible a place as Manhattan. You most assuredly didn’t research the Public, which has been promoting non-traditional casting and innovative productions since Joe Papp founded it in 1954. Guess your board members are too young to remember the flap over the 1974 production of King Lear with a predominantly black cast headed by James Earl Jones. It garnered enough notice from boo-birds like you to transition from Shakespeare in the Park (free to anyone willing to stand on line for tickets) to earn it major sponsorship on Great Performances and a film. That’s only one example of what the Public’s been up to since before you were born. In pulling your sponsorship, you’ve garnered them nationwide publicity. Every tourist planning a trip to NYC this summer will want to see Julius Caesar and, when the seats are filled and they go home disappointed, perhaps some sponsor with a comprehension of satire and one of the purposes of the performing arts – like the Court Jester, pointing out the folly of the Ruling Class – will suggest taking the production indoors for a run off- or even on Broadway. Cha-ching. Joe Papp is laughing at you from the Other Side. Have a nice day!
Knives are out for theaters that bear the name ‘Shakespeare’ The messages started pouring in earlier this week. “Your play depicting the murder of our President is nothing but pure hatred,” read one of the tamer ones. “[H]ope you all who did this play about Trump are the first do [sic] die when ISIS COMES TO YOU [expletive] sumbags [sic],” read another. The senders were outraged over the Public Theater’s controversial staging of “Julius Caesar,” a production in New York’s Central Park that has become a national flashpoint for its depiction of the stabbing assassination of its Trump-like title character. But the e-mails went to the wrong place — Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Mass., one of several Shakespeare companies around the country that have been inundated with a flood of venomous e-mails, phone messages, and social media posts condemning them for the Central Park production. The Lenox company has received roughly 40 such messages, including one that wished the theater “the worst possible life you could have and hope you all get sick and die.” At Shakespeare Dallas, executive and artistic director Raphael Parry says his company has received about 80 messages, including threats of rape, death, and wishes that the theater’s staff is “sent to ISIS to be killed with real knives.” Meanwhile, New York Classical Theatre, which performs in Central Park, has received a host of threatening messages, and Shakespeare Theatre Company of Washington, D.C., has received about a dozen caustic e-mails and numerous tweets accusing the company of inciting violence and linking it to this week’s shooting at a congressional baseball practice. “We just got slammed,” Parry said. “It’s pretty amazing the vitriol, the wishing we would die and our family would die. A whole lot of them say that we should burn in hell.”
To be fair I don't remember these same Republicans crying back when this exact same theatre company did the exact same play only the a Barack Obama look alike. They loved it back then so their current outrage seems fake to me.
Sure it is. But, it is kinda weird that they didn't pull the funding for the same production when the "Ceasar" looked like Barack Obama. Wait. I thought this sort of thing was Capitalism. and, the left are "socialists!" How can it be a left thing if it's capitalism? :confused: Uh, sure. No problem. You're welcome ...
Not a Trump supporter but definitely an ignorant snowflake who likes to scream over everyone else. https://heatst.com/culture-wars/wat...ukes-of-hazzard-car-at-toronto-area-festival/ The sad thing is she was melting down right in front of her kid teaching him how this is how adults behave.
So, a bunch of Trump supporters mass-reported CrooksandLiars.com's Twitter feed and got it shut down, because da poor widdle dears can't handle criticism of der TrumpenFuhrer.
Regardless of whether or not it was covered here, did you check before making a post crying about the Trump look-a-like?
No, I don't think anyone cared when they had an Obama looka like. Both sides do that and it pisses me off. It has become a go to tactic. It was originally pioneered by SJW on the left to shut down anyone who disagreed with him but now the right has started doing it too.
Obviously you didn't read this thread before making the false claim that I was crying about the Trump look-a-like. Damn you're such a tool. Or maybe you just don't understand Shakespearean satire.