'All the criticisms are valid': Lin-Manuel Miranda responds to the move to cancel his show Hamilton because it glorifies slave owners and says 'I did my best'

UK Daily Mail ^ | July 7, 2020 | Paul Chavez and James Gordon

[C19fan]

Lin-Manuel Miranda took to social media Monday to respond to critics calling for Hamilton to be canceled for its glorification of slave owners. The 40-year-old playwright responded on Twitter in a thread debating critiques of the musical that debuted Friday on the Disney+ streaming service. Tracy Clayton tweeted that Hamilton the play that debuted in Broadway in 2015 and the movie version 'were given to us in two different worlds & our willingness to interrogate things in this way feels like a clear sign of change'.

[Sans-Culotte]

I love it when the Left eat their own.

Yep, Miranda is finding that he is now a Girondist among Jacobins.

[ealgeone]

Notice, the ones at the table are younger while the man with the “hat” is older.

[left that other site]

I love it when the left eats its own.

[Craftmore]

cultural appropriation