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Post by respect77 on Oct 12, 2020 15:35:41 GMT
LOL, again
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Post by respect77 on Oct 13, 2020 12:25:28 GMT
Peak woke Twitter again.
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Post by respect77 on Oct 13, 2020 12:51:45 GMT
Best answer. LOL.
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Post by pg13 on Oct 13, 2020 15:48:19 GMT
Rather depressing, but not surprising. I hope social media generated outrage doesn't lose Gal Gadot the role. Ancient Egyptians had no concept of race as we understand it today, so race is a relatively modern concept. It's a shame that this is being forced onto ancient history. Cleopatra was descended from the House of Ptolemy which makes her Macedonian Greek. Those who hold an Afrocentric view of Ancient Egyptians simply ignore this in favour of reasoning along the lines of "Ancient Egypt is in Africa and, therefore, Cleopatra was black...anything else is Europeans trying to steal Cleopatra's blackness!". Cleopatra's mother is completely unknown - might have been a concubine. But she did not have the same ancestry as, say, Pharaoh Ramses. Today's Egyptians haven't changed much from ancient ones. |
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Post by respect77 on Oct 14, 2020 11:19:43 GMT
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Post by respect77 on Oct 23, 2020 14:00:07 GMT
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Post by respect77 on Oct 24, 2020 13:01:48 GMT
The madness goes on.
Menstruation is a biological function related to biological sex which is real and only biological women menstruate. SMH.
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Post by Snow White on Oct 24, 2020 17:27:25 GMT
I'm willing to change my mind but at the moment I can't help but think trans activists and lobbyists in general hate biological women because we don't have gender dysphoria and are able to menstruate.
I can't find any other explanation on why they romanticize or fetishize periods. The only good things I associate periods with is the fact they indicate I'm not pregnant or that I produce hormones, other than that I hate periods.
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Post by elusivemoonwalker on Oct 24, 2020 19:38:39 GMT
The madness goes on. Menstruation is a biological function related to biological sex which is real and only biological women menstruate. SMH. 😮 is this real🤐🤐🤪 Not all people with periods are women ------------- Eh? What are they then🤔 |
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Post by respect77 on Oct 25, 2020 14:21:07 GMT
I can't.
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Post by elusivemoonwalker on Oct 25, 2020 15:16:26 GMT
Eh?🤔😒
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Post by TonyR on Oct 25, 2020 19:22:57 GMT
Although many fans say calling MJ Jacko is racist, where although there are racist connotations if one looks hard enough, it's really just a casual abbreviation of his surname a la Becks or Gazza. |
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Post by respect77 on Oct 26, 2020 3:55:34 GMT
In the case of "Jacko" it's more than that when it often comes with the word "Wacko". Even in news reports of him just arriving in Britain for the Bad Tour we saw he was completely unnecessarily often called "Wacko Jacko" routinely by the British media. On mainstream news. With Becks or Gazza I don't think they routinely did that.
But I agree that you have to look at the context and intent of someone calling him Jacko. Often it's meant as a nickname, without knowing he considered it offensive. If someone is obviously in that category I don't have a problem with that. But when they routinely called him Wacko Jacko then you know that wasn't without malice.
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Post by elusivemoonwalker on Oct 26, 2020 9:01:29 GMT
Agree with tony re jacko. Maybe some other nationalities who dont have shortened nicknames dont get it. But do agree with respect its very different when put with wacko.
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Post by respect77 on Oct 31, 2020 8:14:07 GMT
To be clear, I have no problem with anyone playing anyone (well, I did have a problem with a white actor being cast to play MJ in that movie that thankfully never materialized, because I felt that was to mock him. So I guess it depends on the context), but the double standards here are real.
Gal Gadot, an Israeli actress, got death threats on Twitter for playing Cleopatra, who the ignoramus or the historical revisionists tried to claim as black, when she most likely wasn't - after all she came from the Ptolemy family, which was Greek/Macedonian. Arabs also attacked Gadot for appropriating "their" history. Well, Cleopatra wasn't an Arab, she wasn't "their" history. Arabs conquered Egypt much later. So an Isreali actress isn't any more off in playing Cleopatra than an Egyptian, let alone a black one.
Now a black actress is cast to play Anne Boleyn. I wonder if the Guardian will write about that as well, like they joined the "woke" attacks against Gadot. If we are now so "woke" that only the same ethnicity can play a historical figure as what the historical figure was then why don't we stick to this idea all across the board?
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