“I don’t think that we have to listen to any of these cynics,” Libby Emmons told Ben Domenech on Fox News Primetime.
Editor-in-chief of The Post Millennial Libby Emmons joined Fox News Primetime's Ben Domenech on Wednesday and discussed how woke liberals have ruined the once-beloved liberal culture.
On the topic of musical theater phenomenon Hamilton recently getting chucked aside by the progressive left after dubbing its creator and star's reputation "one of embarrassing earnestness," Emmons explained that politically cancelling the once-beloved show is "absurd."
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"I think Hamilton is legitimately the best American musical that has ever been staged in the history of our great musical tradition. It's a spectacular show. It brings the founding of America to all of us. It shows us that the face of America's founders are literally every one of us," Libby Emmons said, who attended both Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University to study theater arts.
"Anyone can be George Washington, anyone can take that risk. Anyone can step out and proclaim that they are going to be independent and seek freedom and liberty. I love the show and I think that what they're doing to Lin-Manuel Miranda is absurd. He loved the book. He wrote about Hamilton and there's a lot in the show too about abolition," she said, referencing John Laurens who advocated for freeing enslaved people and bringing them in to fight for America against the British in the Revolution.
"It's almost like they just hate the country or something."
The Fox News host asked Emmons if people will finally put woke progressive's criticism behind them and learn to enjoy the arts instead of falling into the trap of cancel culture.
The Post Millennial's @LibbyEmmons tells @bdomenech that it's time to tune out the woke critics and enjoy art for art's sake. pic.twitter.com/wzJzVPj0BK
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"Yeah, I think that's all of us all the time. The hate that's thrown at JK Rowling is literally because she stands up for women. The hate that's thrown at Harry Potter now is because people don't like when someone goes around standing up for women. I don't think that we have to listen to any of these cynics and I think it's also really telling that the hate for Hamilton didn't start until it left the realm of Broadway and became something all of us could enjoy and take part in," Emmons responded.
"Once it wasn't elitist entertainment anymore they had no time for it," Emmons added.
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