I genuinely didn’t believe this was real but: https://metro.co.uk/2022/10/31/london-theatre-slammed-for-romeo-and-juliet-with-nazi-and-jewish-girl-17670883/
Who greenlit this idea in the first place?! 😭
Also I love how a lot of the coverage was initially about their failure to cast for a Jewish actor for the role of Juliet and not for making this holocaust Romeo and Juliet in the first place 🤣 we live in the wackiest timeline.
I’m inclined to agree but not because I think it’s actively trying to apologise for the nazis but because of the rehabilitation of nazi Germany in the west over time such as the clean wehrmact theory and then hollywood and media obsession with humanising bad guys sympathetically similar to anti heroes has lead people to humanise the bad guys in media and history as part of their learnt behaviours. This being another example of that conditioning.
In the end its the same outcome so its splitting hairs really but I think people don’t realise just how self sustaining Western “values” and capitalism is.
The people are so well trained and the zeitgeist so culturally embedded in people’s behaviours that it leaves westerners to perpetuate the system and the beliefs that enable it themselves on auto pilot.
I’d argue Hollywood humanizes the “bad guys” only when it suits them. I mean, when they do it with, say, an actual Communist, it must always have a bit of snark or spitting on the theory. Same with people in the Third World that falls prey to their imperialist wars.
But yeah, I agree wholeheartedly with what you said just now. It makes sense and the fact it became a cycle already makes it much more concerning.
Yeah this is true, whites get humanised, non anglos get demonised.
It’s hard to articulate to people how auto pilot the system and the consent and propagation by the lumpen is.