White theatregoers urged not to attend play aimed at black audiences

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  1. >A theatre has urged white people not to attend a play, arguing that its audience should be “free from the white gaze”.

    I love double standards for racism. Imagine going to a play where ” audience should be “free from the Jewish gaze / Asian gaze / Black gaze””.
    It’s sad that some people think that the answer to racism is more racism.

  2. To prove how utterly idiotic this is you just have to reverse the title:

    >Black theatregoers urged not to attend play aimed at white audiences

    Stop importing this pretentious and dangerous woke BS to our continent ffs.

  3. Nice try to get more audience by inviting rage watchers. But I don’t think it works as well as in streaming industry.

  4. Hey, OP? Why did you post this?

    I‘m somewhat genuinely curious, but I also can’t help assume bad motives.

    That newspaper looks very tabloid to me, and overall it’s giving “feeding the trolls” vibes.

  5. > black-identifying

    Sure this isn’t some kind of trap, because I can see that derailing pretty easily.

  6. Amazing that black people are 4% of the UK, I swear the only British people I see on TV are black nowadays, and Declan Rice.

    Do white Brits still exist? Are the statistics a lie?

  7. Change “white” into “jew” and it turns into something one could read in 30-40s Germany…

  8. Stupid me thinking racial segregation was an abject failure but here it is generating world-wide publicity for some podunk play even local people wouldn’t have heard of

  9. Next they’re gonna complain that white people aren’t paying enough attention to black theatre. I wouldn’t watch anything at this theatre regardless of the race of the actors/audience because the theatre itself is promoting racism and I won’t support that.

  10. It’s ok to be racist if you are white. & don’t worry Rare cases of stupidity will be highlighted to show how racist any non-white person is.

  11. This is dumb. Culture is culture and should be enjoyed by everyone.

    We should strive for unity, not this crap. Americans, and the Anglosphere in general are in dire need of some soul searching. Is this progress? Is this a reasonable way forward?

  12. MLK and Rosa Parks would be disgusted…

    I remember a speech of Arnon Grunberg, a Dutch writer who is the child of holocaust survivors. He made a very clear statement regarding the discrimination of Moroccans and seeing them as one group.

    He said that whenever you were going to say something that would generalize and/or would say something negative to a certain etnic/religious or other group as a whole you should replace the group you were going to depict as scum or evil or bad. Would you get away if you would replace the group in your sentence with “The Jews”.

    Most likely a lot of things said by people would not be seen okay when you would say this about Jews because of the obvious history. Don’t forget that the Holocaust also started that way. Generalizing an entire group as if they were all the same people. Look what happened there in the following years…

    Would you get away with a statement about how you would keep the theatre free of “Jewish gaze”? You would probably not…

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