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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why lie though? It's common knowledge some of this stuff and easily researched. 
Don't call it Hamilton then, just some historicalally inaccurate musical. 
I enjoy lots of fiction but the way some people cling to this as educational is crazy. [/quote]

A PP above you already has an excellent response to you so I'm copying that post here:

"[i]Having kids compare and contrast a musical they loved with the real historical record is a great intellectual exercise. OP, you're asking entertainment to do all the effort of educating your kids instead of understanding that it's a great starting point for reflection, analysis, debate, etc.[/i]"

+1 to that.

"Why lie though?" PP above: I think you don't get that an artist's interpretation of a real event or person is not a "lie." A book or documentary or news article intentionally fabricating or embellishing things would be lying. A musical, a play, a novel or short story or poem or song, using real things to riff off them -- that's not lying. Have you ever read historical fiction? You likely would point to that and say it's a lie, to you. It just isn't. Nor is this musical, or (as someone noted much earlier) "The Sound of Music" etc. Do you go to many plays or musicals, read fiction, or watch any TV or movies set in real historical times and involving fictionalized versions of real people? Surely those would be stuffed with what you'd call lies, if you think Hamilton's a lie.[/quote]

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