This development follows the cancellation of an anti-racist play at Washington College because some members of the campus community said any depiction of the Ku Klux Klan-even as the villains of the story-would make people feel unsafe.Д¬ensoring depictions of past injustices will not make society better educated about injustice. 'I think if we decide we're just going to immediately hair-trigger cancel anything that might make anyone uncomfortable, we're missing a chance to teach.'' ''The whole point of theater is to reflect society and discuss society, whatever it is you're seeing,' Van Buskirk told the Journal News. Susan Van Buskirk, who directed a Tarzan play at another high school, pointed out that there are real downsides when a school defaults to knee-jerk censorship the moment anyone complains: 'One of the messages that I had conveyed to parents at the beginning of school year was that if one person felt uncomfortable with something, please let us know that. He meets Jane, a young English naturalist, and falls in love, unknowing that Jane's entourage plans to kill the gorillas. The musical follows Tarzan, who is raised by gorillas in West Africa. The songs are written by Phil Collins with a book by David Henry Hwang. 'One of the things that we're working on this year is a big equity push in terms of making sure that we're equitable in everything that we do,' said Baiocco. Tarzan is a musical based on the Walt Disney Animation Studios 1999 film of the same name. (The novel, like many things written more than a hundred years ago, is no doubt flawed by modern standards.) But here's a pertinent question: Did any of the actual students share these objections? The PostВ article puts it all on the parents, who must seemingly be placated at any cost. It would be wrong to say that both concerns are entirely unfounded. So these are two different objections: First, that the source material, Tarzan of the Apes, is problematic, and second, that students of color might be dressed up as apes.

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