"Off With Jesse Green's Head" Demand KPOP Producers!
If there's a thread on this already, I cannot find it.
Jesse Green of the NYT did not like KPOP. He had favorable things to say about its earlier incarnations but not the noisy and weak Broadway version. In typical fashion for today, a bad review is being called racism because the show is about Koreans.
The word police seem to be most upset by the phrase, "squint-inducing lighting," as if it was a veiled use of a racist word. Um, OK. Maybe next time he'll write "lighting that makes you want to close your eyes halfway."
This is taking on minor life by SJW on social media, 99% of whom I suspect have not read the Times piece since it is firewalled. The review was scathing, but he hated it, and we need more scathing in reviews instead of rallying around a show or a person or a cause as opposed to actually reviewing something.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | December 4, 2022 5:55 PM
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The intelligence level of some of those complaining is exposed by them taking issue with Green describing it as a "concert-cum-party", with some accusing him of being a pervert.
It's so mind-blowingly stupid, that the whining has actually received a lot of pushback from the kinds of places that would usually support this kind of bullshit.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | December 3, 2022 4:42 PM
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R1 The dumbing down of vocabulalry seemed to start with the "niggardly" incident.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | December 3, 2022 4:49 PM
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< yes and i do see my typo... r2
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | December 3, 2022 4:53 PM
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I blame Tonya Pinkins for establishing this precedent for clapping back at reviews.
I also don't trust Jesse Green as a reviewer since I've loved several shows he's panned.
Nobody comes off looking good here.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | December 3, 2022 5:07 PM
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If Tonya Pinkins married David Dinkins…
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | December 3, 2022 5:54 PM
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Yes, and KPOP is most certainly wide-eyed awful!
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | December 3, 2022 7:52 PM
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And today in a tweet, Abraham Lim, one of the cast members who days ago posted a lengthy, shrill rebuke of the review on Instagram, referred in a to Green’s “myopic old male white gaze”. Fuck him.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | December 4, 2022 2:09 PM
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^^^ ‘referred to Green’s’
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | December 4, 2022 2:10 PM
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How fascinating for all involved.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | December 4, 2022 2:15 PM
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I wonder how the reactions would have been if Green had not used the words 'squint-inducing' or said anything about the language barrier. I'll bet he'd still be excoriated for his negative review, because how DARE he not like the show.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | December 4, 2022 3:23 PM
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Singapore/Fling has been particularly persistent in virtue signaling on this. Many of the regulars on ATC aren’t having any of it this time. I’m sitting this one out.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | December 4, 2022 5:55 PM
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