The philanthropic centre devoted to western civilisation staged its own small tragedy in an error-ridden and subsequently deleted tweet
By any standards, it was a tweet with a few too many errors. By the standards of a multi-million dollar education centre devoted to western civilisation and which partners with universities to fund its own degrees, it was probably better off deleted.
On Thursday, Australia’s Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation stunned its followers on Twitter by introducing them to the little-known Shakespeare play “Macbath”.
Western civilisation aint what it used to be: pic.twitter.com/JDPep9yoOH
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In a famous scene, Lady Macbath attempts to cleanse her conscience with a long soak pic.twitter.com/OQZ5E5mOJz
Don't they know that it is terribly bad luck to call it "Macbath"? For safety, it should be referred to as "The Scottish Plug" https://t.co/h7rVErBsgb
The Ramsay Centre just deleted their tweet and reposted a "corrected" version. Which they've now also deleted. pic.twitter.com/fuXhJ7sFJ6
Autocorrect even idiot-proofs Macbath pic.twitter.com/Fn6GDVo1UF
Just in case anyone missed the full canon of @theramsaycentre 's display of Western Cultural Supremacy, here are all three deleted tweets pic.twitter.com/9w27idR1BO
“Is this an error I see before me?” https://t.co/CN5sQXktq0
No spoilers but Lady Macbath might be able to get the damned spot out. https://t.co/8juLoJ4k2G
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