No play or musical is safe, at this point, from being re-written into a woke cliche.
But if you didn’t think a classic could be done any more injustice than by turning Oz gay, Broadway just employed our Supreme Court’s DEI judge to ruin Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet!
🚨Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson appears in “& Juliet,” a modern, queer retelling of Romeo and Juliet.
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) December 16, 2024
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Broadway recently began offering their audiences a chance to empty their wallets on the musical, & Juliet, a feminist revision of the old bard’s tale that casts Romeo completely out of the picture.
The tortured take, which recycles overplayed pop songs as their official score, decides Juliet doesn’t “need no man” because she’s a strong independent woman, of course! So they thought… What better way to promote that message than by rewarding Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who doesn’t know what a woman is, with a cameo?
In a performance riddled with second-hand embarrassment, Jackson marched out on stage, Saturday night, wearing a pants-dress getup.
“FEMALE EMPOWERMENT! SIIICK!” She recited one line to an audience of shrieking liberal women. The small bits and pieces of her display shared online makes it difficult to understand how her made-up role contributes to even the woke re-write, let alone the undoctored Shakespeare piece.
“I think that what I like about it is that I am having a very strongly negative reaction to it. Like I hate it!” states another line Jackson gave onstage. While we don’t know what exactly her “character” was referring to here, I share that reaction. Just for different reasons
