July 5, 2020

I don't know how you read, but...

Posted by Ann Althouse at 1:10 PM
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10 comments:

Jeff Gee said...

Could be auto correct. Could be 'book guy' is what you call everybody you suspect of having at some point read a book. Perhaps even affectionately. Lots of possibilities.

7/5/20, 1:33 PM
Char Char Binks, Esq. said...

Is that Booker T?

7/5/20, 1:53 PM
Joe Smith said...

So a white guy appropriating dance from black people who appropriated the story of Hamilton...

Similar to Robert Downey, Jr. "I'm the dude playing the dude disguised as another dude."

7/5/20, 2:56 PM
rehajm said...

Racial appropriation. You must be cancelled.

7/5/20, 2:59 PM
Krumhorn said...

I watched the musical last night on Disney+. It was much better than expected. Very operatic in structure. Some terrific performances.

- Krumhorn

7/5/20, 5:01 PM
Mary Beth said...

I gave up moving around while reading after I ran into a tree. It was dark and I was reading a Kindle Fire tablet so my vision outside the area of the tablet was reduced. I have a nice scar across my eyebrow now from where I split it open.

Even then, I was never that energetic and acrobatic.

7/5/20, 8:01 PM
RobinGoodfellow said...

Blogger Krumhorn said...
I watched the musical last night on Disney+. It was much better than expected. Very operatic in structure. Some terrific performances.

- Krumhorn

Mrs Goodfellow and I watched the other day. I gave up after 5 minutes, but I heard the whole thing.

Dayum!

Music was horrible. Half the “actors” were flat on the high note. And the voice of the Hamilton actor was so grating I just about got meth teeth by the end.

7/5/20, 8:47 PM
effinayright said...

This is very obvious one of Miss Ann's lamest offerings.

SEVEN comments in 9 hours.

WHY? Because no one has any more shits to give.

7/5/20, 9:09 PM
bagoh20 said...

Don't laugh. The left does want to cancel Hamilton.

""Are y'all ready to talk about how problematic Hamilton is? Lin Manuel Miranda created a piece of work that used hip hop (a genre created by black people) to tell the story of colonizers and slave owners," one Twitter user wrote.

"As much as I love the show, it and it's writer are deeply problematic," another wrote. "I've intentionally or unintentionally ignored these things for years, but I'm trying to fix this now so I can fully contextualize and understand Hamilton and it's effect as a whole."

"Hamilton is deeply problematic in concept and so is Lin Manuel Miranda to some degree," another person tweeted.

"I mean I think the fact that a musical like Hamilton (which is deeply problematic and nationalist) has to exist in order for non-white actors to have a space on Broadway is just very indicative of how non-white stories will never be able to thrive on this elitist medium," another person said.

"Reminder for all y'all Hamilton watching mofos: Hamilton was a racist slaveowner, and casting POC as white bigots isn't the reclamation you think it is," read a tweet that had nearly 60,000 likes. "It's a romanticized telling of a white man's plights, so none of y'all better be stanning the founding fathers AGAIN."

Ajamu Baracka, a self-described "international human rights activist," blasted Miranda.

"Lin-Manuel Miranda is a Puerto Rican Uncle Tom who instead of fighting for independence makes feel-good revisionism for white liberals. He is pathetic," Baracka said.

In May, Miranda and "Hamilton" creator Jeffrey Seller were forced to apologize because people criticized them for not supporting Black Lives Matter sufficiently and not speaking enough about police brutality and the George Floyd protests."

https://www.theblaze.com/news/hamilton-problematic-lin-manuel-miranda-criticism

7/5/20, 9:31 PM
Mark said...

Nice concern trolling by you and Glenn Beck, bagoh20.

OMG, a couple people said something on Twitter, its a movement!

7/6/20, 8:31 AM

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