Slam Frank's Blatantly Anti-Semitic IG Post- Page 4

[MikeInTheDistrict]

Posted: 12/18/25 at 10:19am

For a guy who wrote a play about the blind spots of the "woke left", he sure has a lot of blind spots himself. I don't think that conversation is horribly damning, but it is pretty much what I expected from what I've heard about this show. I think there is a valid point there about the weaponization of identity politics against the very people who should be allies in our fight against fascism, but I feel like Fox, and this show, risks playing into those very politics by perpetuating both false equivalencies and divisions between the experiences of marginalized groups.

Updated On: 12/18/25 at 10:19 AM

[darquegk]

Posted: 12/18/25 at 11:03am

This whole thing is starting to feel like the season-long B-plot of the theatrical equivalent of "The Morning Show," with Ben Schwartz playing an Andrew-Fox-esque character.

With all the talk about deleted threads and leaked conversations, I was expecting something MUCH more damning, but that call seems like more of the same in terms of the show's marketing and tone... plus the fact that it's from last year and not in regards to the current controversy left me wanting more, or at least different, from this whole thing.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 12/18/25 at 12:27pm

Yes, i am genuinely confused as to why this was “leaked” at all. 

[Charley Kringas Inc]

Posted: 12/18/25 at 1:37pm

MikeInTheDistrict said: "I think there is a valid point there about the weaponization of identity politics against the very people who should be allies in our fight against fascism, but I feel like Fox, and this show, risks playing into those very politics by perpetuating both false equivalencies and divisions between the experiences of marginalized groups."

"False equivalence" is also how I'd describe the way that people conflate the issues that result from leftists struggling to coalesce (cringe infighting, sloppy messaging) with everything conservatives have been doing for the past fifty years (a ruthless top-down effort to pervert democracy), so I don't have a huge amount of patience for both-sides satire.

[Kad]

Posted: 12/27/25 at 10:51pm

You’re telling me that a shoestring-budgeted, non-union production put up by people without a lot of experience doing something of this scale annd unexpectedly found a lot of sudden major acclaim and scrutiny had interpersonal drama? Stop the fckin presses. 
 

[BoringBoredBoard40]

Posted: 12/27/25 at 10:55pm

did you actually read the whole post or….?

[darquegk]

Posted: 12/27/25 at 11:59pm

When you do punk rock theatre (I mean the ethos, budget and production style, not the actual musical tone per se), you’re going to have punk rock problems. I’m not excusing or condemning, I’m basically saying “this is what the fringes are like, and now a spotlight is on one particular fringe act in a way that’s basically unprecedented in theatre.”

I can almost guarantee things are exactly the same at your city’s edgiest storefront/black box/queer theatre collective.

[Alex Kulak2]

Posted: 1/12/26 at 2:35pm

And Slam Frank has decided to steer into the skid.

For the good of the show, someone needs to take away Andrew Fox's phone.

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 1/12/26 at 2:44pm

Fortunately, the show closed last year. Hopefully we don't hear about them again.

[MikeInTheDistrict]

Posted: 1/12/26 at 3:29pm

Charley Kringas Inc said: "MikeInTheDistrict said: "I think there is a valid point there about the weaponization of identity politics against the very people who should be allies in our fight against fascism, but I feel like Fox, and this show, risks playing into those very politics by perpetuating both false equivalencies and divisions between the experiences of marginalized groups."

"False equivalence" is also how I'd describe the way that people conflate the issues that result from leftists struggling to coalesce (cringe infighting, sloppy messaging)with everything conservatives have been doing for the past fifty years (a ruthless top-down effort to pervert democracy), so I don't have a huge amount of patience for both-sides satire."

I apologize for missing this when you first posted, but that's actually exactly what I meant when I was talking about false equivalence. In light of what's been going on in just since New Years, I think it's pretty clear that the Left can't afford to be its own worst enemy anymore. 

The newest post from Fox is the definition of someone sick to the gills with irony poisoning.

Updated On: 1/12/26 at 03:29 PM