Fictional Helen of Troy was hatched from an egg after her fictional God father Zeus transformed into a Swan, anything less than an authentic half-swan half-human actress is inauthentic, no one is complaining about that, just that a black woman is playing the role
British and American white male actors are playing fictional Greek characters and speaking English, nobody is complaining about that just that a black woman is playing a half-swan half-human fictional character, it seems white men can get away with playing inauthentic roles but not a black woman
We have seen this all before,
black woman plays lead in a star wars series, culture war hatemongering expressed as outraged racist, misogynistic psychodrama
black woman plays lead in disney movie, culture war hatemongering expressed as outraged racist, misogynistic psychodrama
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MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca · 5 pts · 106d
There's not psychodrama, there's a handful of goofs and trolls egging on culture warriors into another dumb fight that makes everyone tired and produces no change or anything of value.
spagbolioli@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 90d
the psychodrama is last week, this week it's evil sikhs so predictable and repetitive
UnequalExchange@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
in my opinion , until this hatemongering leads to anything dangerous being substantiated against the people who played a role in this thing's creation? It is not substantial. (Im ginna be honest with yall , I have no idea what a helen of troy is but meh Ill give my take) Have any ofbthe actors, writers, make up artists z whatever been shot at ? Or have they received death threats? If not? Pffft. I tell these needlessly embittered people: " REEEE CRY MORE SNOWFLAKES. Black people can act in whatever roles they want to loool"
In my opinion "Nothing is substantial until it is substantiated"
Its just a bunch of angry white people slobbering over each other about their poor widdle persecuted cutures' . Will they substantiate anything about this hatr? Well let us see.... Welp we waited three months and I havent read anything in the news yert or seen anythin sunstantial so....
What I find funniest is that there are people like this who talk about their european cultures being 'persecuted' and 'in a war'.... BUT YET....funnily enough we see that it is actually the Sudanese, Yemeni, Lebanese, Iranians, COngolese, Palestinians cultures that are currently being extincted off the planet... What about THEIR culture wars? Hmmm?