Oddbean new post about login | logout Netflix has become so woke, they cast a black woman to play Cleopatra. Yes, a woman of GREEK origin was black according to Netflix. sigh. I'm all for inclusion and all, but c'mon... Even statues from her time depicted her as a light skinned woman. I watched maybe 5 minutes and had to turn it off.
It’s a complete brain rot. Just look at this shit. https://youtu.be/_Godh2oR4kM?si=XxSACnWmy8q7fJ12
Egyptians were black maybe they are trying to bring this to the front. They should also touch the topic of how black people were keeping Hebrew people slaves at that time.
Cleopatra was a descendent of Ptolemy I, a Macedonian Greek. Macedonian royalty at that time retained their culture and language despite ruling over Egypt.
I’m looking forward to their WW2 in colour 😂
Hitler was black, wasn't he?
A black lesbian who identified as a naughty German dominatrix… on weekends allegedly
All in the name of personal identity subversion. Blending races, gender and cultures, etc. in order to break down the emotional values associated to these powerful human traits. Appreciation ≠ Appropriation
Hello Bridgerton on Netflix had a black Queen and King. They’ve been going this way for a while. I got so bored I started watching all the sports docs. 😅
There's a czech game called Kingdom come, devs took extra extra mile to depict everything around 14.century true to Bohemia at that time. Even chickens are only the breeds that were there at the time. First rants, there are no other races, no black people. Yea. No.
If you didn’t like the show, you didn’t like the show. However, the move to make more equitable casting decisions in recent years is a positive one for communities that have been marginalized and exploited to build most of our institutions. Representation is an important tool we can use to affirm the humanity of those we’ve historically dehumanized. Maybe that makes me “woke”. That term was stolen from the struggle of the black community and is now used to belittle any effort to grant them full access to full personhood. Maybe you are a member of that community. I don’t know. I’m not. The disgust you expressed about skin color specifically lead me to feel like maybe this was punching down though.
Skin color is irrelevant. To try and establish any connection to marginalised people where there is none is wokeism. It's feel-good and not based in any historic fact.
Well, you sound a lot like you find skin color relevant when it doesn't fit your expectation. Historically, movies had blond Jesus and every main character was cast rather more white than historically accurate and now the trend is the reverse, where Greek characters are cast black. Both is wrong in my opinion but being used to the former, we only feel it now as being wrong.
straight kool aid sipper over here
Agreed. That’s how I interpreted this, too.
My grandmother was black. She was a light skinned woman. She passed for “white” in an effort to combat #racism Would you be okay with someone like her portraying Cleopatra? It’s 2024 & multiple people have mixed blood lines. There is value in accepting that. Your idealized version of humans from the past is flawed. They most certainly were righteous & never killed anyone over something as trivial as their place of birth or religion. That’s sarcasm.
It's not up to me to "be ok with". If there was mixing of bloodlines outside of the traditional incestuous behavior, then yeah she could be mixed. But we don't have any evidence of that.
Fair enough. I can clearly see the evidence you’re providing of continually wanting to believe in ancient history. Cool. What are you doing to make the world a better place now? Others have chosen to systematically divide others via ideologies. “Woke” is the same as any other -ism. (Below) Let’s work together to build bridges. That is the only way change will ever happen. Otherwise the world will continue to be divided further into the us versus them that #humanity has done forever. —— Portion of one of my poems Then the - isms Keep the pawns fighting amongst theirselves Religion, class, race and sex Divided caste chattel is US society We’ve bought into “freedom” ideology “Let them eat fast food.” We ignore or berate those unlike us. This keeps us constantly wrestling
TV is a shit coin. ✨🙏 #optout
Did the same thing with both Zeus and Achilles in their Troy miniseries
Perhaps it’s not woke but an attempt to gain other demographics and make more bank