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@InkedJoe @ChikaXIII @MouthFeel @jondelarroz Okay to piss on Greeks.

@ChikaXIII @MouthFeel @jondelarroz That makes even less sense. Shango is a literal historical figure & was a real person. You're literally proving my point. You're comparing a fictional story to an actual person/event that happened irl. And we already got many white Spidermen. Peter, Ben, Kaine, Otto, and others.

We live in a culture where white people are told they're not allowed to write certain fiction or engage in certain creative arts that are historically a part of non-white culture or it's "cultural appropriation." At the same time, white historical roles going to other races are cheered for by those same people. If all actors were allowed to play whatever they wanted and it wasnt' clearly hypocritical and clearly an attempt to destroy the white race, it wouldn't be a big deal. But with both of these conditions in existence, it's clearly a genocidal agenda through propaganda. Do you get it, Hollywood?

@InkedJoe @DoctorNordo @jondelarroz Adapting the Chinese story Journey to the West: You okay with gods, a stone monkey, pig demon, a sand ogre, and a dragon turned into a horse but not a white actor?

@DoctorNordo @jondelarroz Thats literally not the same.

@InkedJoe @jondelarroz So okay with white actors playing black characters from folklore and fiction? Dude Storm isn't real.

@jondelarroz Dude, you're an idiot. Helena of Troy is a FICTIONAL character in a story that is NOT HISTORICAL. Their skin doesn't define their character nor serves a purpose in the story. If it had no purpose in the story, then they had the right to cast whoever they wanted.

@toliro @mattyglesias Meaning she is pale. Do you really think Greek poets imagined a Greek woman as sub-Saharan African?

@CountofDown @mattyglesias “White armed” is a figure of speech that means she does not work outside in the sun and therefore doesn’t get sunburnt. In short, it means “rich person”, not “white skin person”. It’s not a physical description of skin color. It’s like “rosy-finger dawn”. Go to school.

When you see a Black actor cast to play a character described as fair-haired in an ancient epic poem, there's a clear agenda at work — an agenda to claim canonical works as the common patrimony of the entire West, and that's good! slowboring.com/p/a-diverse-od…

@Gasino11 @KemiBadenoch Did the point of not using our own oil and gas while importing foreign...

@KemiBadenoch Do you care more about your pride than reducing our fuel bills? So what if putin is a warmonger, he sells cheap gas and oil and we need cheap fuel. Just buy it

After 18 months of “standing up to Putin” the Labour govt quietly issued a licence allowing imports of Russian oil refined in third countries. Yesterday Labour MPs voted AGAINST UK oil and gas licences. We are now importing from Russia instead of drilling in the North Sea. Insane.

@russianbotulism @charlesmurray You would be screaming about whitewashing and cultural appropriation if they cast a white actor as a black character from history, folklore or pop culture.

@charlesmurray Cross-burner Charles no like the black actress. Shocker!

Orwellian.

@BeechEmmet79003 @charlesmurray You would be screaming about whitewashing and cultural appropriation if they cast a white actor as a black character from sub-Saharan African folklore or history.

@charlesmurray There have plenty of ‘reinterpretations’ of Shakespeare. Ian McKellen did a version of Richard III. Branagh had his version of Hamlet. Why this meltdown over casting of Odyssey?

@Stephen73127491 @charlesmurray So what this was dumped over 300 years ago.

@charlesmurray Shakespeare's works were performed by all male actors

@CatherineHall16 @ShakeLS @KatinOxford You are so unconcerned you comment.

@CountofDown @ShakeLS @KatinOxford I doubt it. Film casting isn’t high on my list of concerns. There is however a slight difference between casting an actual historical character and a supernatural being from myth.

There is zero reason to be upset about Helen of Troy being cast as a black woman. Except racism. There is no “historical accuracy” in a myth. Helen is not a real person. The requirements for Helen are to be extraordinarily beautiful and that more than describes Lupita.

@CatherineHall16 @ShakeLS @KatinOxford Ahem!

@CatherineHall16 @ShakeLS @KatinOxford Queen Anne Boleyn according to television vs reality.

@TomK_Brit1993 No.

Would you support Britain rejoining the EU?

@Pagodabaumbean @strewther @NRO @RichLowry Some folklore and same real.

@strewther @NRO @RichLowry You don’t think there’s a difference between a a historical Chinese dictator who existed in living memory and a woman who likely never existed except out of a 3,000 yr old story about an idealized lost Bronze Age culture, and was also maybe hatched from an egg?

What the Helen of Troy role most requires is luminous beauty, and there’s nothing inherently wrong with casting actors such as Lupita Nyong’o in roles that don’t match their ethnicity. | @RichLowry nationalreview.com/2026/05/does-i…

@tabnotscroll @NRO @RichLowry Okay with a white actor as...

@NRO @RichLowry All the knuckle draggers in here that have nothing better to do than complain about a fictional character casting have no idea where Troy is. Here’s a hint: it’s in Turkey and it’s not hard to imagine African diaspora being there.

@NRO @RichLowry You would be screaming about whitewashing and cultural appropriation if they cast a white actor as a black character from sub-Saharan African folklore or history.

@tabnotscroll @NRO @RichLowry You would be screaming about whitewashing and cultural appropriation if they cast a white actor as a black character from sub-Saharan African folklore or history.

@AiringViews @pritipatel Labour shut down more.

@pritipatel But the Tories were ok with Thatcher shutting down all the coal mines. 🙄

Labour’s ridiculous energy policies have weakened Britain and must be reversed.  The British Government should not be in a position where it relaxes sanctions on Russian energy or helps to strengthen Putin’s energy revenues.  Yesterday Labour voted against our domestic oil and gas industry in Parliament. They must immediately change course and stop trying to shut down the North Sea.   gov.uk/government/pub…

@tosuperego @elijahXmcm @mattyglesias No ancient text called her black.

@elijahXmcm @mattyglesias Didn't disagree with the analysis. I disagreed with using the term "fair" to mean "light haired". In Homeric, it meant beautiful/nice, the word he used wasn't ambiguous that the translation "fair" in English is. It can't be misinterpreted as being about colour.

@toliro @mattyglesias White armed.

@mattyglesias Nah. There isn’t a description of Helen’s SKIN COLOR in the Iliad nor in The Odyssey. Also, Helen was born out of an egg. A literal EGG. 🥚 So unless you can find an actress who was born out of an egg to play Helen, you don’t have a case.

@mattyglesias You would be screaming about whitewashing and cultural appropriation if they cast a white actor as a black character from sub-Saharan African folklore or history.