dekedangle_rpfanon | #24 – Not Sure If Serious or Playing Dumba

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NA Honestly considering a big part of Hamilton is retelling an immigrant story with people of color, I actually understand that they aim not to cast white people in the main roles (excl. King George). And with all the attacks LMM came under for his casting choices race-wise, I don't blame the fandom for being sensitive on this one.

Of all the things wrong with Hamilton fandom, I'm side eyeing you hard that "Why won't they cast white people?" is the hill you choose to die on.

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They can't get their opinions validated in other places so perhaps they were hoping that this white bread fandom would agree with them.

This white bread fandom concerned with real life rapists and abusers. The opposite of exhausting and uncomfortable, compared to people supporting the casting of POC in the very few theatre roles that were written specifically for them.

ayrt

It's not a hill I choose to die on. It's the vehemence that even one of the roles (not even the main roles. Any role.) might have to go to a non-PoC is white-washing.

Did you get similarly "exhausted" and "uncomfortable" by the fact that the vast majority of casting calls specify Caucasian actors?

Did you get up in arms about:

1. Jennifer Lawrence playing Katniss, who is canonically olive skinned
2. Johnny Depp lying about how he's part Cherokee so he could be in that piece of shit Lone Ranger movie
3. Emma Stone being cast as a fucking part-Asian character

No? Then stfu.

ayrt

Yes. Actually. I fucking do care about 1 & 2 & 3. I do. I could go on for days about it.

But.

I really don't fucking care if Jon Rua's part in the ensemble goes to a white actor. I'm sorry if people are up in arms in Hamilton fandom are (which, I have seen, and I am summarily unfollowing everyone I know who reblogs this shit on my dash).

da

Honestly, this

I really don't fucking care if Jon Rua's part in the ensemble goes to a white actor. I'm sorry if people are up in arms in Hamilton fandom are (which, I have seen, and I am summarily unfollowing everyone I know who reblogs this shit on my dash).

suggests that you don't fully understand the stakes of 1, 2, and 3 and why they're bad.

Why the fuck did you feel the need to bring your shitty, wanky opinions on fucking Hamilton to deke? Stop. Walk away. We have enough wank about inconsequential shit that's actually hockey related without importing more.

+1 Someone was venting that Hamilton fandom was exhausting, and while another anon was trying to explain that it's not exhausting it turned... into a pretty exhausting wank ugh. Makes me very happy I am nowhere near the Hamilton fandom.

Oh okay, so you're all about equal opportunity. Except that systemically speaking, the scales are tipped towards Caucasian actors in the industry. You don't get to make your value judgments in a vacuum, like "oh I hate the large-scale white-washing that goes on but I also don't see why people don't want to see the very few POC roles that do exist go to white people."

You're a liar. And you have some very definite reverse racism thinking going on. I don't like you.

That's because it is.

sa

Also LOL "have to"??? Yeah sorry folks we scoured god's green earth but amazingly a POC actor looking for work and capable of playing this part was nowhere to be found so we had no choice, we HAD to!!

da

Seriously! And the justification... because people burn out and move on to other projects?? Sure, but... that means once a POC actor leaves a role no more POC actors anywhere are looking for work? Get the fuck out of here. Any white actor has a billion more opportunities for jobs than any POC, so sneering at people for being upset about white people cast in roles written for POC (because that was actually the point of the musical, not "the founding fathers were white!!") misses the point in so many different ways.

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