re: Elon Musk complains about actress choice for Helen of Troy.

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Deliberate erasure of Western European heritage & bloodlines sure as shite is.

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It’s an Ancient Greek piece of fiction set in Asia.

What is “Western European” in all of that?

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It’s an Ancient Greek piece of fiction set in Asia.

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It's still European mythology, so I get why people are upset.

It would be like casting a white person to play Baron Samedi.

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Lupita Nyong’o

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Sydney Sweeney would have been a good choice

Matt Damon as odysseus was also a terrible choice

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Sydney Sweeney would have been a good choice

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Her face isn't pretty enough. Her best assets lie.... elsewhere.

Margot Robbie, a young Kiera Knightly, a young Scarlett Johannsson

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Same reason I refuse to watch Hamilton.

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At least with that, it was pretty much unabashedly the point to sort of throw it in people’s faces.

I kind of prefer that to this trying to be coy ‘Why should you care?’ bullshite, such as this.

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That face did not launch 1000 ships...

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Death Cab for Cutie - The Face That Launched 1000 Shits

I mean did Greek gods really have white skin or we just finding another way to complain about White Victimhood?

Hollywood is run by those who wish to dilute.

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It’s an Ancient Greek piece of fiction set in Asia.

What is “Western European” in all of that?

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Anatolia was decidedly Greek at that time, especially western Anatolia.

Greeks during that time would have been very similar to other Europeans. Not only did they migrate westward, celtic tribes were migrating eastward and even proto-slavs were migrating southward.