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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

People don't generally do that. If you're referring to Hamilton, it was not a documentary or a biography. And historically white people did that all the time in plays/movies for entertainment, so why get all angry about it now that it's not white people?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, if we're talking Hamilton it's even further, being pretty clearly a commentary on the whole "founding fathers freeing everyone while most of them owning human beings they refused freedom to" thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I brought up Hamilton because it's particularly not a documentary

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Netflix's Cleopatra comes to mind.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra_race_controversy Her race is actually heavily debated by historians, so that's not a very clear cut example.

[–] PreachHard 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Actually reading that article you linked it doesn't seem that debated and there isn't really any evidence of her being black.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're right, based on that article. It doesn't matter, I'm just pointing out that it wasn't just a random choice to make her black. I'd argue they should have made her Iranian to be more accurate, but the claim is that people are randomly just changing skin colors in documentaries all willy nilly and so far the only example is a weak one.

[–] PreachHard 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah you're right, it's one of those small complaints that's gonna always come from a small group of people. It's just media; people get so nuts about this site like everything should always cater to them...

Gets weaponised too I've seen people try to link this bullshit to "wokeism." As if that's the fucking problem with Hollywood.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Queen Cleopatra is a very recent example.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra_race_controversy Her race is actually heavily debated by historians, so that's not a very clear cut example.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

From the article you linked it seems that historians by and large agree she was of Greek descent with a bit of Persian ancestry, and a bunch of laypeople are heavily debating them on it.