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If that single black person is playing the legendary Greek warrior Achilles or Queen Anne Boleyn, I would argue that this is wokeness on steroids. (I know that
by inglor_cz 5y ago
If that single black person is playing the legendary Greek warrior Achilles or Queen Anne Boleyn, I would argue that this is wokeness on steroids.
(I know that neither of those examples happened at Netflix. But both happened fairly recently in the Anglosphere, which is probably the wokest pole of the Western world.)
No one in their sane mind would portray, say, Martin Luther King as a blond Swede, or a historical Japanese Shogun as a Maori.
- solenoidalslide 5y agoNative Americans were played by white people all the time. White people play the role of Jesus all the time. Where's your outrage for those? That is why such a view is seen as racist, or at the very least a double standard against black people.
- zozbot234 5y ago> If that single black person is playing the legendary Greek warrior Achilles There's actually iconography in Minoan Crete showing African Black folks (from Northern Africa of course, but Black folks were never exclusive to "Sub-Saharan" Africa anyway) as very well socially integrated, in the same social roles as "white" (actually, Levantine/Mediterranean) characters. So that's probably a bad example seeing as Minoan Crete itself may be the origin of the Achilles myth. And yes, they could be very effective warriors too, not unlike Achilles himself. In a radically un-Woke twist, a later source (Frontinus' Stratagems) goes as far as to describe a group of auxilia troops (i.e. quasi-mercenaries) from Africa fighting valiantly for the Carthaginians as nigerrimī.