[Vwoolf] Google alerts: more about the battle of the bust....

[Neverow, Vara S.]

Greetings,

A few more articles...

The first two links below are behind the Times paywall (I don't have a subscription):
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https:**Awww.thetimes.co.uk*article*virginia-woolf-bloomsbury-bust-racism-list-london-k9nwmh0db&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTQ2NjIzOTE4MTg5ODkwODAyOTEyGjBkYTBmODkyM2NkNWMyMDM6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNEdhXFawEx4jV8L4Kgrz8I1PS-arw__;Ly8vLw!!KGKeukY!jOVH_fzVO0FPU6X2iVXtg7RcHw-ym-zmw9ejB8lRe7LfCXYPvHu76Zdp9TOQQ3sJuZc$ 

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-times-view-on-virginia-woolfs-bloomsbury-bust-culture-clash-pr5k3r9hx__;!!KGKeukY!jOVH_fzVO0FPU6X2iVXtg7RcHw-ym-zmw9ejB8lRe7LfCXYPvHu76Zdp9TOQw8McXOo$ 

Accessible:
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/virginia-woolf-shouldnt-cancelled-influence-has-overwhelmingly/__;!!KGKeukY!jOVH_fzVO0FPU6X2iVXtg7RcHw-ym-zmw9ejB8lRe7LfCXYPvHu76Zdp9TOQCXOJCbM$ 

Accessible, but it's probably better to read text below and avoid having to view the irritating Express.co.uk website
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/1569141/local-councillors-woke-actions-virginia-woolf-statue-james-whale__;!!KGKeukY!jOVH_fzVO0FPU6X2iVXtg7RcHw-ym-zmw9ejB8lRe7LfCXYPvHu76Zdp9TOQzoZ41DM$ 

Woke councillors are the Woolf at the door, says JAMES WHALE

I SEE the bronze statue of Virginia Woolf in Bloomsbury, London, is on the woke hit list now. Apparently the good Labour councillors of Camden are compiling a tally of people who they think may have been racist.
It’s got to be one of the most stupid, time-wasting exercises going on anywhere. Virginia Woolf’s novels have been translated into more than 50 languages. She was part of the Bloomsbury group of radical thinkers and writers from the early part of the last century.

To judge people from the past without taking into account what was thought to be acceptable at the time is utterly ridiculous. It’s as though these woke campaigners are trying to time travel to adjust the way people thought and acted to modern standards.

It’s a shame, but people who stand as local councillors are not always the brightest. Maybe there’s a crowd of them who actually believe they know what they’re doing.

Local politics is very important: it often has more effect on us than any other political dealings.

But episodes such as this suggest there’s maybe a wiser way, considering the majority of people who would be better at it are far too busy earning a living and paying tax to keep the country on its feet.

Happy Wednesday!

Vara

Vara Neverow
(she/her/hers)
Professor, English Department and Women's and Gender Studies Program
Managing Editor, Virginia Woolf Miscellany
Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, CT 06515
203-392-6717
neverowv1 at southernct.edu


I acknowledge that Southern Connecticut State University was built on traditional territory of the indigenous peoples and nations of the Paugussett and Quinnipiac peoples.

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