Feb 26, 2026 01:23 AM
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RELATED (scivillage): BBC told to avoid clunky color-blind casting & preachy anti-colonialism
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LEO KEARSE
https://youtu.be/n_8I6VCqabQ
VIDEO EXCERPTS: This is nonsensical. I mean, the only time Joan of Arc was a was a Black woman was after she'd been burnt at the stake. This is a Scottish touring production of St. Joan...
[...] And the official blurb frames it around power, gender, and youth led change, and describes Joan as coming from a marginalized background, and shaking institutions.
And yeah, Joan was marginalized. Everyone was marginalized in the old days. If you weren't some sort of king or duke, nobody was having a great time. Despite us all supposedly
having some sort of white privilege, we were all just shoveling mud in a ditch all day and eating turnips and dying from an infected wart in our foot age 23.
Honestly, this just makes it look like Black people don't have anybody interesting themselves. It's an insult to Black people. They could have done a film about [various Black historical figures]. Look, there's loads to choose from.
As for this idea that this play is shaking institutions, no, it's got the exact same opinions that are enforced by every institution by our diversity and equality laws that are, you know, like the Advertising Standards Authority banning a a Black guy from being shown as a sexual harasser in an advert. This is this [the current norm] enforced by institutions.
[...] And obviously this isn't the first time they've done this. They previously said that Joan of Arc was non-binary, which is obviously just projecting contemporary ideas about gender onto history. You know, maybe in the old days she had to wear male clothes to ride a horse or whatever, because it's like everything was made out of whale bones if you're a woman.
And pretty much everybody from white history has been portrayed as Black, including Isaac Newton [on Doctor Who] and the Vikings. Let's have a look at this...
https://youtu.be/n_8I6VCqabQ
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/n_8I6VCqabQ
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LEO KEARSE
https://youtu.be/n_8I6VCqabQ
VIDEO EXCERPTS: This is nonsensical. I mean, the only time Joan of Arc was a was a Black woman was after she'd been burnt at the stake. This is a Scottish touring production of St. Joan...
[...] And the official blurb frames it around power, gender, and youth led change, and describes Joan as coming from a marginalized background, and shaking institutions.
And yeah, Joan was marginalized. Everyone was marginalized in the old days. If you weren't some sort of king or duke, nobody was having a great time. Despite us all supposedly
having some sort of white privilege, we were all just shoveling mud in a ditch all day and eating turnips and dying from an infected wart in our foot age 23.
Honestly, this just makes it look like Black people don't have anybody interesting themselves. It's an insult to Black people. They could have done a film about [various Black historical figures]. Look, there's loads to choose from.
As for this idea that this play is shaking institutions, no, it's got the exact same opinions that are enforced by every institution by our diversity and equality laws that are, you know, like the Advertising Standards Authority banning a a Black guy from being shown as a sexual harasser in an advert. This is this [the current norm] enforced by institutions.
[...] And obviously this isn't the first time they've done this. They previously said that Joan of Arc was non-binary, which is obviously just projecting contemporary ideas about gender onto history. You know, maybe in the old days she had to wear male clothes to ride a horse or whatever, because it's like everything was made out of whale bones if you're a woman.
And pretty much everybody from white history has been portrayed as Black, including Isaac Newton [on Doctor Who] and the Vikings. Let's have a look at this...
https://youtu.be/n_8I6VCqabQ