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The problem isn't the questions, it's the answers. With Bridgerton you get the impression the aristocracy wasn't so bad as long as half of it is black. There's

The problem isn't the questions, it's the answers. With Bridgerton you get the impression the aristocracy wasn't so bad as long as half of it is black. There's no classism or anything structural in that show. It's escapist alt-history that even romanticizes what it depicts. In that sense it's no different than Hamilton, where you had, ironically enough, an almost all POC cast represent not a single POC character. superficial diversity in place of actually talking about race, class, and so on.

dragonwriter 5y ago
> With Bridgerton you get the impression the aristocracy wasn't so bad as long as half of it is black I think your mistake is reading Bridgerton as utopian political fiction and not a romance film with a fantasy drawn around combining exaggeration of a few specific facts of Regency England with a couple things drawn from modern Western race and gender politics is the context and engine of conflict. > There's no classism or anything structural in that show There is fairly intense classism in the show. > In that sense it's no different than Hamilton, where you had, ironically enough, an almost all POC cast represent not a single POC character. Minor nitpick: Hamilton, in fact, has a single explicitly-named on-stage POC character, though the part has no lines. Major nitpick: you...did not understand a few layers of metaphor in Hamilton. > superficial diversity in place of actually talking about race, class, and so on. Hamilton rather directly talks about race, class, “and so on”.