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| I read Teachout's piece | |
| Posted by: mikem 09:21 pm EDT 06/21/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Terry Teachout has a piece about it in today's WSJ - singleticket 11:48 pm EDT 06/20/18 | |
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| I read Teachout's piece. It's not very well-written. He starts out by saying that this is "Culture Wars II," with "woke progressives" vs "old-fashioned liberals," but he never actually says who the old-fashioned liberals are. (I guess it's Muny, but he gives no reason in the article for us to think the Muny leadership is liberal. Are they liberal because they cast ANY of the roles with a person of color?) Then he describes the protestors' concerns, without sounding like he agrees with them. He spends the majority of the piece saying that the protestors should not have disrupted the performance, and there were other means for their views to be heard. He was actually at that particular performance where the protest happened. He says that people were upset that protestors disrupted Julius Caesar at the Delacorte last year because they did not like the analogies to Trump, and if you didn't think that disruption should have happened, then this disruption shouldn't have happened either. He definitely has a point that the protestors should not have disrupted the show, but it kind of gets buried in the baiting language he uses throughout the piece. |
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| re: I read Teachout's piece | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 01:08 am EDT 06/22/18 | |
| In reply to: I read Teachout's piece - mikem 09:21 pm EDT 06/21/18 | |
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| I think he has a point that both protests are comparable. I'm generally in favor of protests that disrupt a show, because that means they are effective in a way that protesting across the street rarely is. Beyond that, it's really a question of whether we agree with the protestors' point of view. | |
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| re: I read Teachout's piece | |
| Last Edit: singleticket 10:22 am EDT 06/22/18 | |
| Posted by: singleticket 10:14 am EDT 06/22/18 | |
| In reply to: re: I read Teachout's piece - Singapore/Fling 01:08 am EDT 06/22/18 | |
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| I think you'd need to attach the article to even figure out what Teachout's point was in the piece. I think the two protests are comparable only in the fact that a performance was interrupted by protesters. The rhetorical comparisons Teachout goes on to draw are another matter altogether. | |
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