‘Oppenheimer’ and ‘Hamilton’ Have Dark Similarities That Should Not Be Ignored
Things are never quite as simple as they seem. While we like to put things into binary categories like good and evil, human truths are much more nuanced, and bad things usually get lost in the mix. This is what happened with Hamilton, and now it’s happening with Oppenheimer. For example, Hamilton kind of floats over the fact that Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and even the Schuyler sisters were all people who perpetuated slavery. Of course, the argument is that this is entertainment and not necessarily a…