How is it then not a dogwhistle for the show to explicitly promote a historical revisionist conspiracy theory cooked up by right-wing black nationalists?

And I’ll readily admit that I’m not in favor of the particular line mentioned both within the docudrama, as well as the overt purposes of the director.

But, to be clear, the director isn’t American, she’s Iranian, and historically, the Persians did rule over what is now Egypt for nearly 300 years before the…

Probably not.

And like I said to someone else, for a person of that power and fame, and during a time period where a lot of shit was recorded about how they looked (such as Caesar balding or Nero having red hair), the utter lack of descriptions about Cleopatra’s skin color is telling. To me, it either means it wasn’t…

Rim shot.

You do realize that the country that borders Egypt...to the SOUTH...is Sudan? A nation and peoples that, for centuries prior to Cleopatra, had intermixed. Not saying that Cleopatra is secretly the descendant of the Kushite Empire, but your geography and understanding of Africa is piss-fucking-poor.

No-one is contending that ‘Amir’ knows more about Cleopatra because he’s Egyptian. But Gharavi is saying that he shouldn’t care if Cleopatra was Greek, because he isn’t genetically related to her either way. Read the Gharavi quote again.I’m saying that since he is Egyptian by nationality/upbringing, he thus has a…

Genes don’t spread the same as language and culture.

Genes don’t spread the same as language and culture.

People get what Gharavi’s argument is, but it’s his country. That’s what makes her comments so tone-deaf.

To be race-swapped, you have to know the person’s race. So I ask, what was Cleopatra’s race?

Macedonian is not a race. Greek is not a race. Egyptian is not a race. We don’t know what her race is. We have a good idea what her ethnicity was, and ethnicity really doesn’t give a damn about skin-color. Race is a modern…

The point isn’t whether or not he’s Egyptian. In Ghavari’s example, Amir brought up Cleopatra being Greek. If Amir presumably didn’t care that Cleopatra’s ethnicity has fuck-all to do with where she reigned, then presumably he wouldn’t care if she was depicted as dark-skinned.

If “Amir’s” issue is her depiction being…

Maybe because, I don’t know, Amir wants his country’s history accurately presented and doesn’t want to just pretend the period of ~300 years when they were ruled by a dynasty of Greeks didn’t happen.

I first saw him in White Boy Rick, where he played a notorious Detroit drug dealer.

Definitely menacing.

^ This right here.

It’s not as though Jonathan Majors was a complete unknown before he landed Kang.

Lovecraft Country was a critical darling, and he’s been in other roles in some pretty good films prior (I especially liked him in White Boy Rick). White #MeToo going on, any prior complaints would’ve likely been raised…

DeSantis doesn’t give a damn about the ashes.

He won re-election and he’s term limited. He’ll gladly leave the state in ashes if it means he gets a clear shot to replace either Rubio or Scott in the Senate, or has a clear run against anybody but Trump in 2026 or beyond.

DeSantis’ problem is that he became too popular…

Apparently Duncan sent the nude photo, and Alexander sent back a heart eyes emoji and then asked where he could send money.

I immediately thought of the Mazda Eunos Cosmo.

Good to know, Morgan. Do people from Italy and France and the U.K get upset about being referred to as European?

The fact that Ian Callum between 1999-2019 at Ford/Jaguar/Aston Martin wasn’t mentioned is a goddamn travesty and anybody who isn’t aware of his work for those marques should be ashamed of themselves.

For fuck’s sake, you have Daewoo and 1990s Chrysler on the list.

My guess is that Drew and her team have discussions with the guests well before hand so that she knows exactly what the temperature is. It would be rude (and silly) not too.