as for the Middle English ones, most of them are also racist, antisemitic, and generally the tools of white empire. So there is that issue. MK is probably the one who is actually the least problematic in this vein.
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I am not sure where this is coming from. My point is that they all observably have these issues in their works. This should be as factual as that Langland writes in W. Midlands alliterative lines etc.
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This is the thing, as a joke, does it really work? It can literally be lifted and posted online somewhere and people would not see it as a joke. It's better as a joke as something that punches up, if it said, Stop talking shit about the Middle English authors and then said
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Chaucer is rapist; the York Plays are antisemitic; etc. The original set of lines does not read to me as funny in relation to what the top line "Stop talking shit about...." says especially when people usually say they its to complain that we are too "PC" about writers/artists.
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Every author listed in whatever list (medieval, romantic, etc.) is a canon author. This reads to me as a discussion around the white canon and also backlash in what people see as cancel culture. This literally is a way to trivialize the real issues of why these major authors
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are a problem by comparing that to an issue of whether we find their work of various kinds of literary merit. I see it has also devolved to imagining them as baked goods and "taste" judgements. But this is the thing, the meme does not begin with... if x author was a baked good..
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It starts by saying stop talking shit about the canonical authors. It directly is addressing the arguments about the canon and especially the white canon. So this is lolz to trivialize why we should start taking out some of these folks into the canon or even exposing problems.
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