Can Someone Tell Me How This Can Be Legal?

[youngmafbog]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13130911/West-End-tells-white-theatregoers-arent-welcome-hosts-black-audience-nights-Kit-Harrington-play-protect-ticketholders-white-gaze.html

And would it be ok for a white only or Brown only audience?

Sounds more like segregation to me, I thought we had move on from that.

[naomi24]

I sincerely hope they only sell tickets for those two nights and play to an empty theatre for the rest of the run.

[Prudie]

I saw that and my first rather frivolous thought was 'black identifying' means a white person can go as long as they identify as black surely? Just as people can identify as cats, a member of the opposite sex or for that matter whatever they want to identify as even if they don't look like it.

[barry1010]

Awkward if a mixed race couple want to see it.

 

[ToraToraTora]

White's can still go it seems....

"But on the evenings of 17 July and 17 September, the theatre will be open to an 'all-Black identifying audience'.  "

Just identify as black, slap on some cherry Blossom and you're in!  Radio Rental!

[ToraToraTora]

yes I know there should not be an apostrophie above.

[youngmafbog]

I thought that too Barry.

Seems such a shame as I thought the country was making good headway into racial integration.  Yes I know still a way to go but this just puts it back as the extremists will leap on it.

[barry1010]

I am trying to view this from another angle.  I understand the play is about difficult and sensitive matters concerning race.

Would it be acceptable for a theatre to adopt the same policy if the subject matter was difficult and sensitive topics concerning young women? Would it be acceptable to have two nights of a long run where women could watch the play free of the male gaze? 

It doesn't sit right with me overall.

 

[barry1010]

It's a way to get free advertising  the play, though

[youngmafbog]

I guess when you exclude 81.7% of the population you need all the advertising you can get.

 

[barry1010]

That 81.7% can go on any night of the three month run bar two. 

[naomi24]

After that I wouldn't go if they paid me.  People like them create racism.

[youngmafbog]

They can Barry but I'm sure being excluded like that will stop many.

It is racism pure and simple, however they try and sell it.

[Mozz71]

How.do you prove that you're "black identifying"? Go dressed as Ali G?

[youngmafbog]

I think then you would be accused of cultural appropiation.

Mind you Beyonce seems to have gone very white to break into Country.  

[douglas9401]

Black plays matter.

[dave50]

I know it's off topic but youngmafbog comment got me thinking.  If a man dresses as a woman, can't he be accused of female appropriation? Just a thought.

 

[youngmafbog]

No, females are now back of the queue.  Get with the times.

[Deskdiary]

Anybody remember this thread when the same thing was happening?

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1837971.html ;

I think even Alastair Campbell wouldn't have dared spin as much as a few in the above thread were spinning in attempting (and failing) to show it wasn't discrimination to exclude white people.

The stuff they were coming out with was laughable. 

[ynnafymmi]

I wonder if Meghan or Lineker would be allowed in?Both claim to be victims of racism,both are whiter than a Eskimos elbow.

[Old_Geezer]

Sounds racist to me so has surely to be covered by anti-racist law.