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Like others have said, it's a theater production of Richard III. Theaters have practiced racially blind casting for decades out of practicality and convention (remember, in Shakespeare's time female characters were played by young men, race swapping is nothing compared to that :P) unless there...

Yeah, theater usually ignore race of actors unless the role is heavily tied to race (IE Othello) this is especially true of small local theaters that aren't drawing from a large pool of actors. In the instances where the character's race is hugely important to the story though, they'll...

Where was I railing against the obscenity laws? I merely explained the actual HISTORY behind the erosion of those laws and how it played into the larger Conservative project to remake the Supreme Court. Go quote the person who actually was making that complaint and engage with them, rather than...

And once again we see the new populist right being ignorant of history and blaming the old conservatives for losses they had no way at the time to counter, and in fact saw how they lost and took efforts to reverse. What am I talking about? Obscenity laws. You know how those were lost? It...

I'm convinced the early 20th century Progressive movement was possibly the second most toxic political movement in American history for all the long term crap it ended up engendering like these kinds of Eugenics programs. (The obvious first most toxic political movement in American history was...

IIRC wasn't the "White Man's Burden" poem explicitly satirical? As in, he was actually against that attitude and was mocking it?