So “Hamilton” has gotten pretty much unanimous praise from critics and those lucky (or rich) enough to score themselves tickets to it. Even Mike Pence, despite that thing that happened when he attended the show Friday night, declared on Fox News Sunday that “Hamilton’ is just an incredible production, incredibly talented people. It was a real joy to be there.”
The Trump-loving, Muslim-hating racist behind the blog Diversity Macht Frei begs to differ. As he sees it, Hamilton is basically an act of “white genocide” set to music. In Hamilton, you see, all the Founding Fathers are played by people of color, a deliberate choice by the show’s creator designed to make the cast “look … like America looks now.”
Well, Mr. Macht Frei is having none of it.
This entire spectacle is simply white genocide turned into entertainment. It retells American history with the roles historically played by European Americans instead performed by brown-skinned people of varied ancestry, the whole thing set to music of a style typically associated with those of African race. This is racial appropriation. One race is written out of history, replaced by another. Europeans are being asked to celebrate their own demise, their own effacament from America’s story.
I’m going to let Nathan Fillion take this one:
The blogger continues:
Imagine if someone made a musical about Zulus and all the Zulus were played by Europeans, played to Mozart-like music. You can imagine the outrage that would provoke. But, somehow, when it happens to Europeans, this racial usurpation is OK? No, it’s not OK. In the age of Trump, maybe white people need to establish a new political correctness of their own.
Yeah, it’s not as if white actors have ever played the parts of non-white characters in movies and TV and Broadway spectacles. (Oh, wait.) It’s not as if Jesus, a middle-eastern Hebrew, is ever depicted like some blue-eyed, dirty-blond-haired, white-skinned surfer dude. (Oh, wait.) It’s not as if Fox News anchors have ever worked themselves into a frenzy insisting that Santa Claus — who I am told is not even a real person — is white. (Oh wait.)
It’s not as if a horde of white Harry Potter fans threw a fit when a black actress was chosen to play Hermione in a London theatrical production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child — even after JK Rowling declared that the complainers were racist “idiots” and that “Hermione can be a black woman with my absolute blessing and enthusiasm.” Oh, wait.
It’s not as if the casting of Hamilton is a conscious response to this long tradition of whitewashing people of color out of history and culture.
Oh wait.
Anyhoo, Mr. Macht Frei goes on to demand the inevitable phony boycott of this allegedly white-hating play.
We need people to picket, protest and boycott this so-called musical. There can be no place in modern America for racially inflammatory spectacles masquerading as entertainment. And don’t give me the argument that this is free speech. This isn’t free speech. It’s hate speech. And hate speech doesn’t cease to be hate speech just because it’s set to music. Especially when that style of music is rap*.
Now, Mr. Macht Frei follows up this post with a wry little “disclaimer” suggesting that maybe he’s just trolling, ha ha — which would presumably make his post a sort of parody of the things those evil SJWs say when they object to white people playing people of color.
But the point of his post, if we assume it’s meant seriously, is pretty much identical with the stated aim of his blog — “chronicling the Genocide of the European peoples, the greatest crime in all of history.” If that’s not meant as a joke — and there’s no indication that it is — then it’s pretty much impossible for me to believe that his Hamilton post was meant as a joke.
Tellingly, when The Daily Stormer’s Andrew Anglin reposted Diversity Macht Frei’s post on his site, he left off the disclaimer. And his commenters don’t seem to be in on any joke.
“All of the Founding Fathers are played by n***ers while the “bad guy”, King George III, of course remains white,”one Daily Stormer commenter complains. (Asterisks mine.)
“The tide is turning , all can see the black nightmare that is all around us,’ writes another, using the logo of the Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS) as his avatar.
Destroying one city after another. We are going to win but it will cost many lives because of cowards.
Yeah, kind of hard to see the joke here.
If anyone needed more clueless and privileged white people thoughts, Gwenyth Paltrow said the election was exciting because we’re throwing the country up in the air and don’t know where it’ll land.
@Aunt Podger: I don’t know if it’s true, but I’ve heard that the original skinheads were into certain kinds of music, and the racism thing came later. But the “old-school” non-racist music-oriented skinheads still exist, to some extent, in parts of europe. The two groups hate each other, apparently.
If there’s a word for someone who identifies with a group but shuns or is missing a lot of traits commonly associated with that group, then the only word I can think of to describe them is “outlier”. That’s probably not what you meant, though. Umm… dabbler? Wannabe? I’m not sure if there’s a word for it, or if I just can’t remember.
@ Snowberry
The original skins drew their inspiration from many sources, including Jamaica. Particularly popular with both black and whites was ska music. Being a working-class culture, many skins were also lefties. Those who carry on such traditions today use terms like ‘Spirit of ’69’ or ‘Skinhead ’69’ to differentiate themselves from the racists.
Here’s an article from the NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/19/opinion/l-true-skinheads-are-not-the-racist-thugs-of-media-fame-829412.html
BTW I’m not a skin, I’m just bald.
@ aunt podger
The original skinheads were white working class lads (and some lasses) who loved Jamaican music and culture. And the original “Oi” movement was very anti racist. The cross fertilisation between black and white youth gave us bands like the Clash and the whole Ska scene.
It was only later that the Nazis came along and fucked it up for everyone; like they did with punk.
There’s still an antifa and left leaning skinhead scene. For a good introduction get your best stomping boots on and check out The Red Skins.
@Aunt Podger
What Snowberry, Citizen Justin and Alan said
@Alan
Who really need to call themselves something the fuck else.
@ dalillama
Oh, good point. Pity ‘The Four Skins’ is already taken.
@Alan
*ba-dum tshhh*
On the article, all I can say is this:
It’s not liberals who make me hate my race and gender.
It’s racist, sexist assholes like the one David writes about who make me hate my race and gender.
The sooner the assholes in question figure this out, the sooner our nation can be truly great.
@ troubelle
There actually is a skins band of that name! But don’t forget, we’re the country that gave Benny Hill to the world. 🙂
“Diversity Macht Frei”
Jesus shitkicking Christ.
Yet what do you want to bet the writer is also a big-league Holocaust denier…
Jarnsaxa – most likely one of the people who deny that the Holocaust happened, but defend it as a perfectly justified act anyway.
We need Hellboy back; he was good at dealing with Nazis.
“Hitler didn’t kill any Jews, and it’s just a shame he didn’t finish the job with the ones he DID kill!”
–basically.
Yes.
And don’t forget the “The Allies were just as bad!” part.
Ugh. Currently reading a book about Holocaust denial and it’s very distressing to see how much power they’ve gained since the book was written 20 years ago.
It always comes down to antisemitism and conspiracies with these schmucks. Always.
Now I’m remembering that we had a holocaust denier troll on here a couple of months ago. I can’t remember what post it was on and I think the troll had one of those generic men’s names. Mike maybe? So I can’t search it. It was pretty jaw dropping. His schtick wasn’t that it never happened though. It was that the numbers of people killed were vastly exaggerated, therefore the holocaust was totes not a big deal. It was so gross.
That’s more the “soft” form of Holocaust denial. (Which isn’t better.)
It’s pretty common, unfortunately, and people who don’t know any better can easily fall into the trap of “well the truth lies in the middle.”
It doesn’t.
Thanks for the info!
Most of the Holocaust-deniers I’ve personally encountered were of the “It was actually internal warfare between factions of the Rothschilds” stripe. The mind did not so much reel as encourage me to, “Get out of here, now!” (My son-in-law, who met my daughter in seventh grade, is Jewish, and the denialists were looking for “new blood” for their church. They had a match in mind already. :shivers:)
Hellboy 2020!
I think it’s time to make a Holocaust denial bingo.
HellBoy 2020! A leader for hope, diversity, change and busting Nazi heads where they need busting.
Yup, good job, racists. There is a genocide associated with the founding of the United States. It’s actually the genocide of the Native Americans, and it actually was not completed, but I guess we don’t need to keep pretending you will listen to the factual experiences of marginalized people anymore.
@Carayak
It is more accurate to say that there are several dozen genocides associated with the founding of the United States, many of which were completed. For the Pensacola, Calusa, Chimariko, Edistoe, Ottagamies, and many, many more, the white efforts at genocide were entirely successful.
i really like the “so-called musical” bit.
it’s like, dude, it’s clearly a musical. “so-called” is used to suggest it isn’t REALLY the thing that SOME people call it. but… you know, like it or not*, ‘Hamilton’ is pretty undeniably** a musical.
*if you don’t like it, you’re wrong.
**then again, there are people (probably you) capable of denying something as huge as the goddamn HOLOCAUST so i guess i shouldn’t be surprised you’d attempt a denial as comparatively reasonable as “‘Hamilton’ isn’t a musical.”
Hello.
Hmm, of course, in operas, the roles of persons of color are always attributed to singers of said color. So many black Othello and Iago, so many people of color in the Slave Choir in Nabucco ! Such a colorful cast, la Reine de Saba ! (if it is not clear, it is a bit sarcastic)
> aunt podger
In something close, you have Netherlands gabbers. They are often shaved head persons, love military pants and rangers, but are not (neo-)nazis, even if nazis indeed try to enter and appropriate the movement. Mind you, the term gabber comes from yiddish, and there is a gabber music version of the Hava Naquila which is often sing by Ajax Amsterdam supporters.
So, yeah, nazis trying to appropriate/infiltrate other cultures is, alas, nothing new.
Have a nice day.
Please do boycott Hamilton! Yes, indeedy – it’s the right thing to do.
(If it comes to London, tickets will be rarer than hen’s teeth, so any little helps, because I would really like to see it.)
@Dalillama this is the truth. And (although I think many here probably do not need to be told this) the genocide continues today against those of us who are still around. Boarding schools have been replaced with forced and unnecessary foster care placement, to divide generations and break our affiliation with our people; my grandfather was a victim of this tactic.
And that’s without mentioning the outright aggression, like when they just straight up poison us (ex. Standing Rock, and this is not the first time. Aggressive mining is usually the culprit, mine seepage is extremely toxic)