David French
speaker
1,367 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 28 Aug
David French’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And you know what it reminded me of?
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I remember seeing criticism of The Walking Dead years ago when it was very, very, very popular because it had gay characters in it.
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And yet The Walking Dead was –
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The Walking Dead was, in many ways, like the Second Amendment enthusiast's dream story.
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It was like, this is why you own guns, because the impending zombie apocalypse.
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And I can remember writing about some of the criticism and saying, look, you can paint the battleship New Jersey in rainbow colors, and it's still the battleship New Jersey.
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If you have a story that is...
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that is fundamentally oriented towards self-reliance and the Walking Dead, like the right to keep and bear arms, et cetera, the inclusion of some characters that you may have some qualms with doesn't change the underlying narrative thrust and arc of the whole story.
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It's the same thing with this.
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It's the inclusion of people from different backgrounds and identities into the story
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doesn't change the story.
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The story is still the story.
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Did having Black and Hispanic actors in Hamilton change the story of the American founding?
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No.
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I do think it made a lot more people see themselves in it.
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A lot more people could see themselves in the American founding and how it was for them because of the Black and Hispanic actors in Hamilton.
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But it doesn't change the story.
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And you're talking about a fictional person anyway.
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Exactly.
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But it's also, I think it's even worse than clickbait sky, because I do think that parts of the right are now fully consumed with identity politics to such an extent that they do think having a black actor changes the story or having a trans actor who's playing a man in the story really for like five minutes.
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