There’s lots of great American-made media, but Hamilton is good only as a dirge for American liberalism.
I can’t believe I had a so-called progressive recently tell me it was valuable for “representation.” What a sick fucking joke, that a play that has every ability to include a person of color anywhere in its depiction of the dictatorship of slavers that was early anglo-America, but it simply doesn’t. It’s not like they didn’t have occasions to do so, but I guess LMM decided that it would sour the tone of Jefferson returning to America if Sally Hemings was with him! Then, you might actually need to think about something instead of just having the eternal recapitulation of liberalism’s triumph over monarchy. Also let’s just explicitly pretend Hamilton was an abolitionist so people don’t feel bad about the endless mill of human suffering we’re ignoring.
He said in an interview that he had originally intended for there to be at least a minor debate about slavery, but when he tried to write it out it didn’t really go anywhere because, you know, they all supported slavery. I don’t remember exactly how he phrased it, but it was very funny because it seemed like a glimpse of almost getting the horror of this thing he lionizes, explained in terms of being dramatically unsatisfying.
maybe controversial opinion but fuck Hamilton. In fact, fuck all American-made media
brave af comrade
probably the coldest take on this website
There’s lots of great American-made media, but Hamilton is good only as a dirge for American liberalism.
I can’t believe I had a so-called progressive recently tell me it was valuable for “representation.” What a sick fucking joke, that a play that has every ability to include a person of color anywhere in its depiction of the dictatorship of slavers that was early anglo-America, but it simply doesn’t. It’s not like they didn’t have occasions to do so, but I guess LMM decided that it would sour the tone of Jefferson returning to America if Sally Hemings was with him! Then, you might actually need to think about something instead of just having the eternal recapitulation of liberalism’s triumph over monarchy. Also let’s just explicitly pretend Hamilton was an abolitionist so people don’t feel bad about the endless mill of human suffering we’re ignoring.
He said in an interview that he had originally intended for there to be at least a minor debate about slavery, but when he tried to write it out it didn’t really go anywhere because, you know, they all supported slavery. I don’t remember exactly how he phrased it, but it was very funny because it seemed like a glimpse of almost getting the horror of this thing he lionizes, explained in terms of being dramatically unsatisfying.
Hamilton is so cringe. Libs have bad taste in musicals.