Look I'll just say this - whatever the relative merits of both otherwise, Allegiance is way more genuinely subversive than Hamilton
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Hamilton is imagines a world where the tension btwn patriotism and racial solidarity didn't exist. Allegiance rubs it right in your face
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Hamilton's whole (problematic) point is avoiding current real-world political conflicts to try to imagine a meaning of "America" beyond that
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Whereas Allegiance cut deep to the bone enough to reignite heartfelt personal anger about old "controversies" from people in their 90s
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Allegiance dug up the ancient buried powder keg of whether the 422nd RCT was a "suicide battalion", and vets understandably hit back over it
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It's water under the bridge right? It happened decades ago, reparations were paid. And yet I found myself getting mad & taking sides over it
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After watching the show and then researching the background I'm still torn up about it
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I wholeheartedly love the show and yet when I read the vets' letter asking Takei what gave him the right to judge I sympathize with them too
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It is absolutely a show to see if you or someone you love is a PoC in the armed forces or in law enforcement, going into 2017
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The 442nd were the most decorated unit in WWII, both spitting in the eye of racism and, arguably, giving racists exactly what they wanted
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Look at it from FDR's POV - he got to pander to white xenophobes for their votes AND get a unit of highly motivated combat troops
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Be worth looking at a parallel w the 54th Massachusetts (as profiled in the film Glory)
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And the general US tradition of making minorities prove themselves in horrible wars to earn their citizenship
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