Around here, Generation Greta has decided not to participate in this nonsense, as one can infer from the empty wodka bottles they are leaving in the park.
Hey, wasn't Tchaikovsky gay? Wikipedia at least thinks so. So, maybe this is in fact an expression of homophobia on the part of the fine people at the National Theatre. After all: Dostoevsky - fine. Prokofiev - fine. Tchaikovsky - canceled! Sounds suspicious (hehehe).
More and more when I read stories like this (and this is happening in the U.S. as well), I think, we are becoming afraid of complexity. Of complexity in all of life. Everything must be black and white, good or bad. In this case Russia =bad. But if we are aware and unafraid of complexity, it adds so much to our experiences. They could have done something interesting, like given a talk or symposium about Tchaikovsky's relationship to the broader Russia culture before the performance. Something to give people context...another thing we are losing and desperately need.
Around here, Generation Greta has decided not to participate in this nonsense, as one can infer from the empty wodka bottles they are leaving in the park.
Hey, wasn't Tchaikovsky gay? Wikipedia at least thinks so. So, maybe this is in fact an expression of homophobia on the part of the fine people at the National Theatre. After all: Dostoevsky - fine. Prokofiev - fine. Tchaikovsky - canceled! Sounds suspicious (hehehe).
More and more when I read stories like this (and this is happening in the U.S. as well), I think, we are becoming afraid of complexity. Of complexity in all of life. Everything must be black and white, good or bad. In this case Russia =bad. But if we are aware and unafraid of complexity, it adds so much to our experiences. They could have done something interesting, like given a talk or symposium about Tchaikovsky's relationship to the broader Russia culture before the performance. Something to give people context...another thing we are losing and desperately need.
How are they still not after the Mendeleyev Periodic table? Cancel chemistry because that evil Russian was involved.
I suppose we should turn of the windturbines if it blows from the East?
This iconoclasm is horrible - shall we also burn all of german history and culture due to -you-know-who?
What about all of arabic and islamic culture? No shortage of atrocities there. Not very LGBT-friendly either.
Timur Lenk, does his deeds mean any all things from Transoxania has to go?
Goodbye greek culture - your ancestors exterminated Ugarit som you got to go now.
Sickening.
Eh. After this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWmmWIkIzLI
nothing from these people surprises me anymore.