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. |
