Thread by @wesyang

NPR's TV critic said In the Heights was a great movie even though it messed up the casting.

WaPo's critic calls for "accountability".

https://twitter.com/joelgrus/status/1407177620102344709

Lin Manuel-Miranda admired the American founders and probably thought his reimagining of the civil religion that crowned the second term of the Obama years would be more durable than it wound up being.

How did they decide that "White Latinxs" is the right way to render that term? (Both terms capitalized, s directly after the x...)

"White Latinx" is a pretty dangerous term, I think, for the woke coalition...

Colorism is important because once the overall diversity numbers are brought into line, the colorimeter will then come out...

While it seems hard to imagine treating it as a solemn duty to care intensely about it in a decade -- just think about all the solemn duties you are already observing today that would have surprised you a decade ago

Also, this cast does not look whitewashed to me, idk.

You gotta think the actors who finally got their shot in a movie dedicated to their community are not super psyched to be shit all over by some ideological zombie speaker

This is the reductio ad absurdum case and why it is a "successor" ideology -- there is never an end state to it, it is always manufacturing new pretexts for its continuation

https://twitter.com/wesyang/status/1276343167542059008?s=20

clarification: the piece was an op-ed, not a review by a critic. Full text here: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…

The op-ed, though, shows what was inevitable is now happening: YA Twitter struggle-session style commentary is migrating to the mainstream media
concerning non-YA culture and is likely to exert more influence

The open question is whether if In the Heights had been about Afro-Latinos if it would have been attacked as appropriation