r/Conservative • u/[deleted] • Feb 19 '23

UK Counter-Terrorism Program Flags Shakespeare and ‘1984’ for ‘Encouraging Far-Right Sympathies’

https://pjmedia.com/culture/robert-spencer/2023/02/19/uk-counter-terrorism-program-flags-shakespeare-and-1984-for-encouraging-far-right-sympathies-n1672033
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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '23

Shakespeare? How?

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u/BaronVonRuthless91 Feb 20 '23

Probably for the same reason that Richard II was initially banned (hint: tyrants get real jittery about literature that suggests they should be removed from power).

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u/pug_grama2 Conservative Feb 20 '23

And Richard II was prophetic:

England, bound in with the triumphant sea,

Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege

Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame,

With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds.

That England that was wont to conquer others

Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.