Stephanie Seenappa

@Elvis_Bob @JulianAcciard1 Or maybe they were just films made by American production companies and they used American actors, just as a film made in Greece would’ve used Greek actors, or film made in India would use Indian actors. Everyone I know think Italians and Greeks are European.

@StephanieSeena2 @JulianAcciard1 At the time of the film, Italians and Greeks we're not considered "white" by the racist bigots of the time, so it's funny that y'all HAVE evolved, just 70 years slower than the rest of us.

Newsflash, this is a Greek Epic based on an actual war, with Greek Mythology intertwined and every Greek God has a description over a thousand years old. The entire context of the story is based in a racial and ethnic identity. This would be like race-swapping Anansi or King T'Challa in avengers because they didn't directly deal with minority issues, or making Blade white.

I really am so proud of this kid. An absolute KING 👑 There’s more courage in this one kid’s small body than in all of UK’s politicians combined.

A young boy in the UK refused to pray during a mandatory school trip to a mosque. He stood silently with his hands in his pockets while the others bowed. This small act of defiance has gone viral — and rightly so. He is being called brave, and he is. In many parts of Europe, children are now being taken to mosques as part of “diversity education,” often without parents being fully informed. They are expected to participate in Islamic rituals, even if it goes against their own beliefs or their family’s values. This is not tolerance. This is cultural submission disguised as education. We should be teaching children to think for themselves, not pressuring them to conform to a religion that is fundamentally incompatible with Western freedom and equality. Japan must watch this closely. We do not need to import these conflicts. We must protect our own culture, our own values, and our children’s right to grow up without being forced to bow to foreign ideologies.

@Elvis_Bob @JulianAcciard1 Well, one major problem with that casting was that Rameses the Great was a natural redhead and Yul Brynner was much darker than that. But Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were both of European ancestry playing two people of European ancestry.

@JulianAcciard1 Hmmmm... That same "racial and ethnic identity" didn't seem to matter in the past. So what changed?

I have refrained from talking about Henry Nowak so far because I was too angry. I remain too angry. I'm angry at the scumbag who stabbed an 18-year-old boy to death. Who drove a blade into the back of his legs to stop him from running, then finished him by skewering him through the chest with an 8-inch blade. All while that poor boy tried desperately to escape. I'm angry that the same scumbag then cried "racism" to cover his tracks, claiming self-defence after pursuing and butchering an innocent boy who just wanted to get home. I'm angry at the parents who tried to hide the murder weapon and shield their killer son from justice, putting blood loyalty above any sense of right and wrong. I'm angry at the police who handcuffed a bleeding teenager while he cried "I'm dying" and "I can't breathe," and let him bleed out in the street. All because his attacker cried racism. I'm angry at the judge who has introduced manslaughter as an alternative verdict before the jury even had a chance to decide. Robbing Henry's family of the proper verdict on what was clearly cold-blooded murder. I'm angry at a nation that grants religious exemptions so minorities can carry deadly blades in public while locking up natives for far less. A nation that has opened the floodgates to migrants who want us dead and now watches its own young bleed out in the name of "diversity." I'm angry that we've allowed it to happen. I'm angry.

It’s a Greek story. The Greek people fought the Turks who enslaved then and tried to erase their culture for 400 years. In our grandparents generation, they killed 1.5 million and drove us off our ancestral land. In 1974, they invaded Cyprus. Maybe at some respect to the culture like Anthony Quinn did in Zorba. But no. They tell Greeks we have no right to a culture. John Leguizamo says he can play a Greek but Greeks can’t play him? It’s you who do not get it. All Greeks ask for is some respect but I guess if you’re a very small minority in the world, Hollywood doesn’t care. That’s not to say Homer told an oral story which everyone added to, but if you’re going to, show the respect you demand. And as you’re not Greek, I’d like to know when that rule changed that you’re allowed to have an opinion. Go look up the Greeks lynched by the Klan and the Tulsa riots. Would Nolan make movies about that and put in all Anglo characters?

@primepressure98 @backcourtnoey @AndyDufresn3 @LRNROSE And add any random architect or artisan who built a cathedral in the Middle Ages or any Roman building or Greek temple. Why with that history would we ever feel compelled to insert ourselves into anyone else’s? I am enormously proud of and grateful for my ancestry.

@StephanieSeena2 @backcourtnoey @AndyDufresn3 @LRNROSE My disdain for white ppl is irrelevant to giving proper accreditation to historical context. White people trying to insert themselves in every pieces of history when they were largely not apart of any of it is very stupid and disrespectful to history and ppl with brains

is odyssey white peoples black panther?! why are they acting like the story is real?

@primepressure98 @backcourtnoey @AndyDufresn3 @LRNROSE I normally don’t engage with the “we were kings” revisionist philosophy, but I could literally sit here on a random Monday morning and come up with lists of Europeans who contributed to the world from basic memory and that’s only a start.

@primepressure98 @backcourtnoey @AndyDufresn3 @LRNROSE Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Samuel Adams, Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Winston Churchill…..

@primepressure98 @backcourtnoey @AndyDufresn3 @LRNROSE Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Galen, Hippocrates, Heraclitus, Herodotus, Epicurus, Archimedes, Diogenes, Democritus, Herodotus, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Cicero, Livy, Plutarch, Julius Caesar, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Sappho, Pindar, Homer, Hesiod…..

@primepressure98 @backcourtnoey @AndyDufresn3 @LRNROSE Mark Twain, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louisa May Alcott, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Bram Stoker, William Butler Yeats, Henry James, Henry David Thoreau……

@primepressure98 @backcourtnoey @AndyDufresn3 @LRNROSE Rembrandt, Vermeer, Titian, Rodin, Renoir, Chopin, Tolstoy, Tchaikovsky, Dostoevsky, Goethe, John Locke, Voltaire, Thomas Hobbes, Montesquieu, Van Gogh, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, Copernicus, Gregor Mendel, Marie Curie, …………

@primepressure98 @backcourtnoey @AndyDufresn3 @LRNROSE Kepler, Gutenberg, Isaac Newton, da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Mozart, Vivaldi, Bach, Monet, Degas, Picasso, Decartes, Adam Smith, Pasteur, Alexander Fleming, Nicola Tesla, Dante, Milton, Byron, Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth, Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, ……

@primepressure98 @backcourtnoey @AndyDufresn3 @LRNROSE And while there might have been mixes of races existing or moving through ancient Greeks, the ancient Greeks were a distinct people who had a distinct view of themselves. They specifically describe themselves as being different from Ethiopians, for example.

@StephanieSeena2 @backcourtnoey @AndyDufresn3 @LRNROSE Never said they were “African” I said a mixed race of people multiple times, a professor who can’t read…hmm interesting “Today’s Greeks” have what to do with Ancient Greece? That’s like saying today’s South Africa was the same as ancient SA lol…just a stupid professor

@primepressure98 @backcourtnoey @AndyDufresn3 @LRNROSE Honest to God, I have a Greek friend so I’m going to go show her your question: “What do today’s Greeks have to do with Ancient Greece?” Can’t wait for the response. I don’t know: biology, shared history, etc. That has to be one of the most ignorant comments I’ve ever read.

@primepressure98 @backcourtnoey @AndyDufresn3 @LRNROSE Actually, ancient Greeks would’ve been lighter skinned than modern Greeks, who are descendants of people who lived under Ottoman invasion and oppression for hundreds of years. I don’t think Greek people see themselves as Turks. They fought hard for their own identity in fact.

@primepressure98 @backcourtnoey @AndyDufresn3 @LRNROSE And what exactly was scientifically asinine about saying that Europeans are phenotypically diverse? Can you dispute that? Europeans encompass all people from the Mediterranean to Scandinavia. From Spain in the east to the Balkans, Greece, and Eastern Europe. We’re pretty amazing.

@StephanieSeena2 @backcourtnoey @AndyDufresn3 @LRNROSE That in itself is an scientifically asinine thing to say and I think we gotta end the conversation right here. 1. Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens: A History of Ancient Greece 2. Daily Life of the Ancient Greeks 📚 This will get you started on your education, goodluck

@primepressure98 @backcourtnoey @AndyDufresn3 @LRNROSE No, but I am what I said I am, which is what led me to comment in the first place. The Odyssey in particular was the first book I ever studied in college, and I loved it enough to continue teaching it to my students.

@StephanieSeena2 @backcourtnoey @AndyDufresn3 @LRNROSE I can and I can read but a simple Google search could have saved you from typing bullshit back2back. Everyone on the internet is always coincidently a master on whatever subject they get into a debate about. If we were talking about space you’d tell me you’re an astronaut.

@primepressure98 @backcourtnoey @AndyDufresn3 @LRNROSE I think he looked like the earliest known depictions of him in art and he was certainly not African. He was Levantine. I personally know Levantine people who are very light skinned, so it’s conceivable that he had light skin.

@StephanieSeena2 @backcourtnoey @AndyDufresn3 @LRNROSE You probably think Jesus looks like a bearded Anakin Skywalker

@primepressure98 @backcourtnoey @AndyDufresn3 @LRNROSE I know in the Afrocentric view of the world non-white people think they did absolutely everything, but my question is always why were we building cathedrals in the middle ages before colonialism? Who did that? Who were Galileo, Plato, Shakespeare, Beethoven?