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Artists, writers, film scholars protest Bowling Green State University decision to remove Lillian Gish’s name

Walsh, David
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/25/gish-j25.html

Publisher:  World Socialist Web Site
Date Written:  25/06/2019
Year Published:  2019  
Resource Type:  Article

Lillian Gish is only the latest in a series of artistic and political figures, past and present, to come under fire for alleged breaches of contemporary gender or racial and ethnic norms. Have the attacks on Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, Jack London and Philip Roth, much less Thomas Jefferson and George Washington and countless others, with all the accompanying hand-wringing and sensationalism, contributed in any way to social awareness or progress? Or have they served primarily to bury the immense, objectively significant contributions of these men and women—and buttress the demands for special privileges by the affluent sections of the striving petty bourgeoisie launching them?

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