re: “If you don’t like the casting, don’t watch the show” – Cleopatra

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clearly non-black historical figures

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The whole point is that it’s not clear that she was non-black. And the reason it’s okay for black people to play roles traditionally played by whites and not okay for white people to play other races is because 99% of every role for a hundred years was written for white people. A little inclusion and diversity is not harming anyone cause now only 90% of roles are for white people.

I don’t get the impression that you are a very bright person, and your post history seems to echo that, so your insults don’t mean much.

Oh the irony

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The whole point is that it’s not clear that she was non-black.

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We have most of her lineage and none of what IS known points to any African blood.

So why assume it must be, when all the evidence suggests otherwise?

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And the reason it’s okay for black people to play roles traditionally played by whites and not okay for white people to play other races is because 99% of every role for a hundred years was written for white people.* A little inclusion and diversity is not harming anyone cause now only 90% of roles are for white people.

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Cleopatra wasn't a 'role'. She existed in the real world. We're not talking Lady Macbeth or some freaking Dwarven Queen.

Ann Boleyn, Joan D'Arc, Hamilton , etc... NONE of them were mere roles and none of them were 'black'.

* This isn't how history works. Good grief.

I have to believe you're trolling the board and don't really buy this crap. Otherwise, ... WOW.

The facts that destroy the narratives people like him push are very simple.

-ESG scores
-Population percentages

Of course there’s more but those two are sufficient to debunk that BS.

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The whole point is that it’s not clear that she was non-black. And the reason it’s okay for black people to play roles traditionally played by whites and not okay for white people to play other races is because 99% of every role for a hundred years was written for white people.

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So purposeful misrepresentation of history is acceptable. How very 1984 of you, O'Brien.

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The whole point is that it’s not clear that she was non-black.

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It is clear. Quite literally the only thing that even opens the possibility of her being black is that part of her lineage from the same continent that most black people originate from. But that continent is massive, and is home to plenty of non-black people. The part of her lineage in question is believed to come from a non-black region of that continent. Meanwhile, there is literally nothing indicating she was black.

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And the reason it’s okay for black people to play roles traditionally played by whites and not okay for white people to play other races is because 99% of every role for a hundred years was written for white people.

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Cleopatra isn’t a role you progressive dumbass. She was an actual person. Until you’re ready to post that it would be okay for Jon cena to play Muhammad Ali in an upcoming movie, your thoughts on this are hypocritical nonsense and less than worthless.

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A little inclusion and diversity is not harming anyone cause now only 90% of roles are for white people.

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Inclusion and diversity quite literally do harm people. Every day. That’s how we end up with your side appointing Supreme Court judges that don’t know what a woman is.

On the other hand, historical accuracy has never hurt anyone.

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I don’t get the impression that you are a very bright person, and your post history seems to echo that

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As a progressive, you aren’t intelligent enough to judge my brightness or understand my post history.

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so your insults don’t mean much.

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Facts aren’t insults.

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Is there any doubt that JPS is a manipulative, controlling narcissistic psychopath?

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Oh look, it’s Jay Are defending woke casting by telling us we’re the problem for caring.

You progs used to say “it’s a fictional character who can be any race” but that was so five years ago, before actual white people who existed in history were race swapped.

Race is so incredibly unimportant except it’s important to the producers who keep race swapping.

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Egyptian History was one of my studies in college,

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Well then you’ve latched on to the absurd ahistorical Afrocentric viewpoint