David French
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1,997 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 4d ago
David French’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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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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Right.
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I mean, you know, so you have a trans actor playing a man in the story that that changes the story.
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because the story is the identity.
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And that's sort of, in many ways, the heart of, that's what racism looks like, is that if you're gonna say, okay, the really salient factor for you
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to do the reverse of the Martin Luther King formulation is the color of your skin, more so than the content of your character, or in the case of a beautiful actress here, the beauty of your, because she's the face that launched a thousand ships, rather than the beauty of the person, it's the color of the skin.
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then you really are looking at the way in which a lot of racial and identity-based politics have warped to the right to such an extent that I do think it's not just clickbait.
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I think these people are legitimately thinking that the actual manifestation of whatever they want to call conservatism or whatever they want to call this belief system, that the actual manifestation requires certain identities, right?
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And in so doing, they are the flip side of the super hyper woke people.
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You know, like the kind of person, there was a recent book excerpt in the Free Press about somebody, a philanthropist who said, don't apply for a grant unless you're a woman of color.
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Right?
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