#this show leaves all social bigotry WILDLY unexamined

[pilferingapples]

(realizing before I post this that I prob. need to clarify here that I'm talking about Gavroche the Musical and not anything else)

I'm sorry I just can't get over how the Thenardier's ONLY Evil Scheme we see them pull onstage is "attempting to apply for welfare, which they definitely need, but they're tacky and mean so they shouldn't have it"

we're sooort ooof informed about other crimes but this is the only one that happens where the audience can see it , the proof of how evil they are

trying to get money for poor families with dependent children...as a poor family with dependent children

it's just such an utterly Reaganite take on The Evils of Welfare

"what if this money goes to bad poor people?? what if the children of bad tacky people have food?? WHAT THEN. "

plot outlines by Javert I swear