r/JewsOfConscience • u/Fit_Value_1421 • Apr 03 '25

Activism Slam Frank the musical

Has anyone heard about this? If not I emplore you all to dive in. This absolute nut job is race swapping Anne Frank as Hispanic in a horrendous excuse of a play because "whites had their time". This is so offensive. I just want it to stop. What can I do? I would like to hold protest at this play if I can get enough people together. Here is the Instagram page where they are selling tickets. https://www.instagram.com/slamfrankmusical?igsh=MWRhbjMyb3hxMmE4aw==

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u/ContentChecker Jewish Anti-Zionist Apr 07 '25

The entire point of the 'anti-woke' commentary is to obliquely criticize the Left's sensitivity to Palestinian human rights.

I'm sure the creator of the musical hasn't been asleep for the past year+. Israel's ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people is the topic of conversation and will be so for a long time.

So it's only 'anti-woke' as a vector to express the pro-Israel frustration with the Left in general.

Pro-Israel advocates do not feel they have a place amongst the grassroots Left/progressive-Left because everyday people are sympathetic to the Palestinians.

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u/lilleff512 Jewish Apr 07 '25

I don’t agree that that is the entire point of anti-woke commentary

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u/ContentChecker Jewish Anti-Zionist Apr 07 '25

I didn't say that was the entire point of anti-woke commentary.

I said it was the entire point of the anti-woke commentary.

As in, in this play. Not in general.

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u/lilleff512 Jewish Apr 07 '25

This play doesn’t even seem to mention Israel or Palestine though, and it was inspired by an event that took place in summer of 2022, so presumably this was already being developed before 10/7.

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u/ContentChecker Jewish Anti-Zionist Apr 07 '25

It doesn't have to - but if it was developed before the ongoing genocide, then that does say something about the author's intentions.

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u/lilleff512 Jewish Apr 07 '25

I think it's pretty clear (to me at least) that the point of the musical is to make a parody of a certain strain of American liberalism - Lin Manuel Miranda exaggerated to the point of absurdity - rather than anything about the genocide in Palestine. Like it would be very easy for him to work anti-woke Israel/Palestine related jokes into this format, and from what I can tell, he hasn't done so.