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HockeyMom4Trump 91 points ago +91 / -0

Not a movie, but isn’t it strange that Hamilton can be played by a “person of color” (as the woke left calls people) when Hamilton was a white dude? Yet if they cast Brad Pitt to play Malcolm X or Sammy Davis Jr that would be racist?

The Oscars is interfering with these artists visions? A good director and film would just say screw your award. I am making the movie I want to make to support my vision, not win a little statue.

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BestTimeToBAlive 22 points ago +23 / -1

The entire cast of Hamilton is black & Latin. I think there’s one white girl in the show. One.

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CousinEddie 43 points ago +43 / -0

I wish someone would’ve done the Martin Luther King story but it’s an 80s hair band musical with glammed up white dudes.

Really highlight how fuckin stupid Hamilton is in every way

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ronburgandy 3 points ago +3 / -0

My uber rich spoiled little cousin has been to see Hamilton on broadway like 5 times now. If I had the money her parents did I'd spend it on a lot better shit lol

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HistoryInvestigator 2 points ago +2 / -0

A good parody is overdue.

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IncredibleMrE1 10 points ago +10 / -0

If there is a white person in the cast, that's new.

There was a MASSIVE uproar throughout the theatre community when the original casting call for Hamilton was announced, because it specifically told white people not to bother auditioning as they would not be cast.

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BestTimeToBAlive 4 points ago +5 / -1

I agree. I have friends in the show.

Imagine if “Equity” (lol) the union for Broadway, had an audition and said “blacks please do not apply to this call”??

ACLU would be called. It’d be national news

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HockeyMom4Trump 3 points ago +3 / -0

Oh, how diverse!

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PatrickSebast 21 points ago +21 / -0

The Oscars pretty much never pick the timeless films correctly so the good artists never did in the first place.

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HockeyMom4Trump 26 points ago +26 / -0

Remember when Shakespeare in Love won best picture over Saving Private Ryan?

They used to suck up to Harvey Weinstein so much

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MondoBurger 17 points ago +17 / -0

Saving Private Ryan with its all white cast wouldn't even be eligible for Best Picture with these rules unless the entire film crew was made up of fat angry black womxn.

Imagine the next big movie memorializing a world war like 1917 and the poster featuring black, asian, and women allied soldiers lol

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HockeyMom4Trump 7 points ago +7 / -0

lol. Nothing like hiring people based on race to solve racism, I guess?

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Mithrandir1776 3 points ago +3 / -0

Neither would LOTR

As far as I'm concerned the movie industry peaked then

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twopoint71 2 points ago +2 / -0

Don't forget the handicapped. In Electronic Arts Battlefield V, the protagonist is a Mary Sue with a prosthetic arm saving the day.

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Cloudy_mood 10 points ago +11 / -1

Yet if they cast Brad Pitt to play Malcolm X or Sammy Davis Jr that would be racist?

There would be fucking rioting in the streets. Whole buildings would be torn down my friend.

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Pat1776 7 points ago +7 / -0

what is crazy is that a black dude can play Hamilton, but if a white dude did, by their rules, he would be ineligible for an award. This is called discrimination. It will force directors to only use POC for all roles to increase their chances.

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ztrich007 2 points ago +2 / -0

They goin full retardo now