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Originally Posted by filthyvermin
i was at dinner the other night with some normies, and they were talking about the musical hamilton. i didn't say anything. and thinking about after, i really don't know anything about the musical, or much about the man alexander hamilton.
if i had spoken up, i would have said something like "i haven't seen the show, but i assume it glamorizes the founding fathers, or at least some of them, and/or the founding of the usa... but the founding fathers were pieces of ****, and founded a disgusting, racist country. so i don't think i'd like hamilton"
would this be a fair comment on the show?
do any of you know any criticisms of the actual show?
i heard something about a rap battle where thomas jefferson said slavery was digusting or something like that. but then did the show address how jefferson was raping his teen slaves?
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Originally Posted by filthyvermin
i'd also guess the show just ignores the whole genocide of the indigenous population, cuz that one is hard to spin and write an inspiring rap about
we killed them all
cuz they had the gall
to be born in the place
we want to steal
and we're the master race
Yes that would be a fair criticism. It was a transparent attempt to rehabilitate the founding fathers. They picked Hamilton because, at the time, he was one of the very few founding fathers that didn't own slaves, so he could be treated like a hero (setting aside he was part of the founding of a country that was built on the slave trade, codified it into the constitution, and as you mentioned, was responsible for the genocide of Native Americans). It came out a few years after the show came out that Hamilton likely did own slaves. But no one really talks about it.
Regardless, the idea of having black people dress up as the founding fathers and sing songs about how good they were is beyond disgusting and completely pathetically transparent. Imagining a musical written in Germany where they hire a bunch of Jewish people, direct descendants of Holocaust survivors even, to play Nazis is a play about Nazis and how the Nazis were good, actually.
It's actually quite unbelievable there is anyone who thought that musical was ok or likes it.