{"id":1194832,"date":"2022-01-06T17:05:58","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T22:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1194832"},"modified":"2022-01-06T17:06:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T22:06:09","slug":"nancy-pelosi-under-fire-for-promoting-credibly-accused-transphobic-white-supremacist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nancy-pelosi-under-fire-for-promoting-credibly-accused-transphobic-white-supremacist\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Pelosi Under Fire for Promoting Credibly Accused Transphobic White Supremacist"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnancy-pelosi-under-fire-for-promoting-credibly-accused-transphobic-white-supremacist%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1194832&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Broadway bad boy Lin-Manuel Miranda &#8216;very honored&#8217; to take part in January 6 reflection ceremony<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pelosi23-manuel.png\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"denied:data:image\/gif;base64, R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pelosi23-manuel.png 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pelosi23-manuel-300x179.png 300w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/>\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/andrew-stiles\/\" title=\"Posts by Andrew Stiles\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Stiles<\/a> \u2022 January 6, 2022 5:00 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) shocked the world Thursday by promoting a white supremacist during what was supposed to be a solemn ceremony to commemorate the anniversary of the January 6 uprising.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the event on Capitol Hill, the speaker praised Lin-Manuel Miranda as &#8220;one of the great creative talents of our time&#8221; before&nbsp;introducing a pre-recorded <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jbarro\/status\/1479172673993383939?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video<\/a> of Miranda and his fellow <em>Hamilton<\/em> cast mates performing the song &#8220;Dear Theodosia&#8221; from the hit musical. According to Pelosi,&nbsp;the Broadway bad boy was&nbsp;&#8220;very honored to be asked to participate today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Social media users and other observers were appalled, however, given that Miranda has been credibly accused of being a white supremacist, or at least of being adjacent to white supremacy, in light of the controversy surrounding the 2021 film based on his musical&nbsp;<em>In the Heights<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Journalists and other racism experts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/first-person\/2021\/6\/18\/22537351\/in-the-heights-lin-manuel-miranda-colorism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">panned<\/a> the musical for its &#8220;glaring lack of Afro-Latinx representation.&#8221; The <em>Washington Post<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2021\/06\/21\/in-the-heights-lin-manuel-miranda-black-colorism-afro-latinos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dismissed<\/a> it as &#8220;more of the same whitewashed Hollywood,&#8221; arguing that the absence of dark-skinned actors in leading roles made Miranda&#8217;s film debut &#8220;part of a long tradition in the Americas of Black erasure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Miranda has also been credibly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/theater\/transgender-hamilton-actor-fired\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accused<\/a>&nbsp;of fostering a transphobic workplace environment. A transgender <em>Hamilton<\/em> cast member reports being fired after requesting a &#8220;gender-neutral dressing room.&#8221; The cast member also described experiencing &#8220;frequent incidents of discrimination and harassment \u2026 including being purposely misgendered.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Political experts instantly assailed Pelosi&#8217;s judgment on social media. &#8220;What on earth,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jbarro\/status\/1479172673993383939?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> journalist Josh Barro. &#8220;Who thought this was a good idea[?]&#8221; Several pointed to a recent <em>Vox<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22641501\/hamilton-parks-rec-harry-potter-cringe-obama-era-pop-culture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a> that explains why&nbsp;<em>Hamilton<\/em>&nbsp;(and other cultural artifacts of the Obama administration) &#8220;feels so cringe right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Alas, the 81-year-old Pelosi is presumably not woke enough to understand why the decision to include Miranda in the ceremony was tantamount to committing violence against vulnerable communities.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s no excuse.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Broadway bad boy Lin-Manuel Miranda &#8216;very honored&#8217; to take part in January 6 reflection ceremony  Andrew Stiles \u2022 January 6, 2022 5:00 pm House &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1194832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}