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11 Mar 2020 Conversations with Tyler John McWhorter on Linguistics, Music, and Race (Live at Mason)
“I know a lot of people would feel differently, and I think the better question would be if it was, say, an opera company in Utah or Massachusetts.”
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- 11 Mar 2020
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…If the Hungarian State Opera wants to put on an all-white performance of Porgy and Bess, should we find that disturbing? And do you personally find it disturbing? Personally, no. I know a lot of people would feel differently, and I think the better question would be if it was, say, an opera company in Utah or Massachusetts. Are we going to get to the point where there can be a white Raisin in the Sun? But even to me, that’s weird — Hungarian State Opera. The government is ethno-nationalist to some degree.…
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