Professors in America and the U.K. fight back against the cancelation of Geoffrey Chaucer | The College Fix
Academics in both America and the United Kingdom have recently taken actions to prevent Geoffrey Chaucer, the father of English literature, from being labeled a rapist, racist and anti-Semite.
In late July, Cambridge University medieval and renaissance English Professor Jill Mann resigned from her position on the board of the Chaucer Review, an academic journal specializing in the work of The Canterbury Tales author.
The journal had published an essay called New Feminist Approaches to Chaucer in which authors Samantha Katz Seal and Nicole Sidhu argued it is time for feminists to move past Chaucer because: He is a rapist, a racist, an anti-Semite; he speaks for a world in which the privileges of the male, the Christian, the wealthy, and the white are perceived to be an inalienable aspect of human existence.
But I thought it was ok to be an anti-Semite. It’s just so confusing.