watching a bunch of black people sing and dance while embodying monsters who raped their slaves turns a key in the liberal brain that unlocks pure and total absolution for the viewer’s role in the death of the biosphere
don’t ask me why I don’t make the rules
Trump. It didn’t really blow up until Trump. It allowed libs to safely indulge in conservative idolatry of the founders because hip PoC rappers told them it was actually dope. They couldn’t safely indulge those feelings because Trump made them feel icky about it. So Manuel Miranada Cosgrove sold himself as the guy who would express it for them in a safe cultural padded room where they could be both nationalistic and colonial but also not feel guilty.
The tickets were going for 10k a pop before Trump. The fued with Trump kept it going long after perhaps it should have died.
Black people get work LARPing as slaveowners and white people get to feel better about championing slaveowners. A latin guy gets some pop and a bunch of people make money. It’s the liberal wet dream of what they believe America should be.
The tickets were going for 10k a pop before Trump
Wait… WHAT? Broadway delenda est.
Not for every performance, mind you, just that the frenzy around Hamilton had nothing to do with Trump-- it was only exacerbated by him as all things were in those times.
https://money.cnn.com/2016/06/03/media/hamilton-tickets-lin-manuel-miranda/
If the founding fathers are poc, then they aren’t problematic :galaxy-brain:
Long tradition in theater doing race swapping to make its white audience more comfortable.
White libs feel guilty that their problematic fav founding father owned slaves. So if you race swap the historical figures, effectively having people of color playing characters who IRL considered them subhuman, you can provide a way for white libs to indulge their love of civil religion that ignores addressing their repugnance by modern standards. Libs are forced to address this at times but they subconsciously hate doing so and desire a way to avoid it.
That’s why he created something like Hamilton that could charge a fortune per ticket. It appeals to rich white lib desire.
because it blackwashes the founding shitheads that they love to idolize
It gets to turn a man who owned slaves and dedicated his life to opposing democracy into an immigrant (they love to call him an immigrant, how progressive of him to move from the British West Indies to a different colony) entrepreneur living the American dream.
they love that they can reclaim the founding fathers from conservatives, pointing out that the feudal lords that founded the country loved civility and norms will totally own the trumpers
I mean thats what an immigrant is. Its not really meant to imply progressivism either. What weirdo associates immigrating with being progressive?
