Sometimes this site is so much fun but sometimes you end up with people telling you to kill yourself because you’re an evil white racist because they don’t know how to read.
Anyways I’m bored and feeling mildly antagonistic so here we go:
Hamilton: the Musical is not revisionist history because it does not claim to be a documentary.
it’s historical fiction. It’s entertainment, not educational. The characters sing and dance for crying out loud. Writing stupid, awful cringey fanfics are perfectly fine as long as this is acknowledged.
Believing that the founding fathers were Amazing People because of the musical is the source of alleged revisionist history.
If you are jumping through hoops to believe that the actual found fathers were good people, you have failed to properly educate yourself. Please do your research and learn to separate fact from fiction. It is OK to like the Hamilton: The Musical FICTIONAL characters. Enjoying the real thing to the same degree is ridiculous. Either do your research or acknowledge that you might be a slavery-apologist. And that makes you racist.
Any “non-fiction” writings that appeared in the wake of the musical that glossed over the atrocities the founding fathers committed and preyed on the newly-interested audience should be heavily criticized for its falsities. Also, please acknowledge that our history books also undeservingly glorify the founding fathers. Fight the misinformation in educational materials. That is the root of the problem.
Yes he is!!!! If you wanna watch this musical, you should pirate that shit.
“I don’t want to watch Hamilton because LMM is an asshole/I don’t like the negative impacts it’s had on pop culture and historical accuracy/I had a cringey obsession with it when I was in high school”
Cool. You’re valid. Don’t watch it. I don’t even like this musical. I’ll never watch it again, and I don’t like how people tried to woobify the founding fathers either. I had an argument amount the morality of Jefferson with someone because he was their “son”.
Reasons why I am addressing this:
1) I’ve been in fandoms with Problematic creators. Every time, without fail, people post about how [work] should be abandoned and/or left in the past, that your past obsessions are cringe, and that still enjoying [work] makes you disgusting and immoral. The Harry Potter fandom manages to carry on just fine.
2) Tumblr, historically, has a habit of reacting with the same cultlike shame and guilt circle-jerk mentality that you find in conservative religious cultures. There is only Good and Bad. It used to be that Hamilton was so amazing for its diversity, and hating it made you an evil racist. Now, liking it makes you an evil racist. There are things in this world that are undeniably evil and disgusting. Enjoying/having enjoyed a musical that had both positive and negative impacts on pop culture and entertainment is not one of those things.
3) All of those founding-fathers apologists? I hate to tell y’all but someone like that, musical regardless, was probably going to do that anyways. If they can’t acknowledge that white guys in the late 1700s were not likely to be good people, they’d also buy whatever trash they sell us in history textbooks. And probably learn to deny the holocaust if they found those circles. Those people who know that the founding fathers owned slaves and try to defend them? Garbage. These are the people who like to endorse the “good guy white sympathizer” characters in every other movie about racism. And they’re racist as shit! The musical didn’t make them racist. They’re willing to defend any kind of slavery? They already failed step one of not being racist.
Stop the morality policing and use critical thinking, and go put effort into worthwhile things, like the de-gentrification of Broadway, or a continued to push for real diversity (not the random side character or whatever tf Disney did to Finn) in entertainment, or promoting/purchasing more art by poc or idk. The actual protests and the race-motivated attacks murders by pigs and white supremacists occcuring RIGHT NOW???
Go wreck some statues of the real, slave-owning, cowardly piece of shit that was Thomas Jefferson and stop giving LMM $. But don’t attack people for enjoying a musical.
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