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Things that became racist in 2020 No 765 - Calling Beethoven Beethoven

Tom Winnifrith
Sunday 25 October 2020

Knickers, sand, women’s hockey, dating a person of colour, not dating a person of colour. The list of things that were branded racist this year is almost endless. So here is a new one: referring to the great composer Ludwig Van Beethoven merely as Beethoven is, according to Slate Magazine, both sexist and racist. Whatever…


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Tom Winnifrith is the editor of TomWinnifrith.com. When he is not harvesting olives in Greece, he is (planning to) raise goats in Wales.
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