Netflix will be releasing a “documentary” about Queen Cleopatra VII. This “documentary” is apparently based on the fictional notion that she was a sub-Saharan African. This is a long-debunked and remarkably silly idea, but welcome to 2023, I guess. Here’s a good takedown:
When you race swap enough fictional characters, you start in on race swapping the historical characters. then you re-write history entirely. then you *erase* and *invent* history. And then society is whatever those in power want it to be.
2 responses to “Cleopatra”
Debunked? There was never any doubt, Cleopatra was Greek. We have her whole family tree.
I want to film a remake of “Zulu Dawn” and cast Irish midgets as the Zulus, and Chinese as the English.
I bet you I can get enough funding to make a Scrooge McDuck money bin…