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| One last, very important point... | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 10:37 am EST 12/31/18 | |
| In reply to: re: You can't guess? - Michael_Portantiere 12:11 am EST 12/31/18 | |
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| ....because this really is the last time I'll engage with you directly: I'm fairly certain that if you were required to use your actual name as a handle on this site, you would not feel comfortable expressing many of the opinions you have expressed (and no doubt will continue to express) in regard to hot-button issues such as the racial makeup of the New York theater critic pool. What I objected to was not your factual statement that all of the major New York theater critics were white, but your conclusion that this means there are certain kinds of theater those critics are unable to appreciate and reward BECAUSE they are white. I realize that the majority of people on this site don't use their real names, but the majority of people on this site don't post incendiary opinions like that. If you were to use your real name as your TB handle, that would at least show that you have the courage of your convictions. But I can't imagine you walking up to Ben Brantley, Jesse Green, Terry Teachout, Elizabeth Vincentelli at a party, or for that matter you sending them emails with your real name attached, saying: "I don't think you, as a white person, can appreciate all kinds of theater because I think you have a limited cultural perspective." |
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| re: One last, very important point... | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 05:27 pm EST 01/02/19 | |
| In reply to: One last, very important point... - Michael_Portantiere 10:37 am EST 12/31/18 | |
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| I don't use my name on this site because it would hurt my standing in the industry to be associated with this site. My comments about the cultural limitations of an all-white critical team would only increase my esteem within the part of the industry that I care about. I would share this thought with the critics who are open to hearing it, and I have been on a panel with a white critic who did acknowledge her cultural limitations. I wouldn't share it with the other critics, but only because I am not authorized by the theater I work for to say such things. But you may have noticed that Jesse Green avoids hip hop theater like the plague, and that's just the most obvious aspect of how our cultural backgrounds affect our ability to process cultural experiences. But really, you're going to spend paragraphs on personal critiques, and not give even one sentence to how exactly the white majority culture that has spent hundreds of years running this country is similar to a people that have been ostracized and murdered en masse for the past two thousand years? |
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