Indeed, he ultimately decided that trying to have a conversation about the controversy and its implications would be pointless, because there was no real possibility for open debate and discussion in the heated atmosphere that had developed in the fall of 2017.
I will not joke with that! This was the topic of a conference Writing Migration hosted by the Department of German and Scandinavian at the University of Oregon in May 2018.
In the end, Blackadder and the Knox College theater program chose to cancel the production of The Good Person of Szechwan and instead to put on three learning plays by Brecht: He Who Says Yes, He Who Says No, and The Exception and the Rule.