Here's the thing abt whitewashing Hamilton's legacy: I have no doubt the real Alexander Hamilton was an elitist prick
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He certainly didn't care very much about slaves and whatever it was he personally disliked about slavery it was on pragmatic grounds
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He was a city boy, slaves worked on farms, he didn't like farms, a slave economy felt less modern to him than a money economy
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But the musical Hamilton is all about pitting him against his nemesis Jefferson and making Jefferson look like the bigger asshole
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And it struck a nerve probably because liberals are collectively sick of kissing Jefferson's shitstained ass
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The rehabilitation of Hamilton is part and parcel of the damnation of Jefferson, since Hamilton was everything Jefferson despised
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The musical Hamilton seems to me to be partly a stance of "I'll take a rich asshole ally who tells me who he is over a backstabber"
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No one in Hamilton is an actual abolitionist but Jefferson is the one who preaches sermons about universal equality while raping a child
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The shift in sentiment to identifying with the Federalists over the Democratic-Republicans is a shift in modern mood
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Toward "technocratic pragmatists" like Hamilton and John Adams and away from *cough* "flawed idealists" like Jefferson
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Like any modern person I'd find both men's actual politics repellent but I know between Hamilton and Jefferson whose hand I'd rather shake
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Discuss among yourselves how this applies to modern famous politicians if you'd like, I'd prefer not to
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