because it blackwashes the founding shitheads that they love to idolize
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
I think Lindsay Ellis’ video about Rent is her best video and it discusses the relationship Broadway has to “subversive” musicals that ultimately uphold a status quo
Also, hearing the gay community using the same “healthcare is a right” chant 40 years ago during the AIDS epidemic as we do now is a little harrowing.
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/
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?
