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Cancel Mozart

3 April 2023

4:00 AM

3 April 2023

4:00 AM

Why should we stop at cancelling the world’s greatest explorer, Captain James Cook, and the greatest playwright, William Shakespeare? Why not the world’s greatest composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart? In his operas, his acceptance of slavery, racism, white privilege, authority, misogyny, anti-Islam, wife-bashing, man-woman marriage, and marital fidelity make him a prime candidate for cancellation.

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