Netflix Getting Sued for Blackwashing Cleopatra by Actual Egyptian

[IceJad]

Egyptian lawyer sues Netflix over Queen Cleopatra - Egypt Independent

Egyptian lawyer Mahmoud al-Semary filed a case with the Public Prosecutor to shut down the Netflix platform in Egypt, following the trailer release of “Queen Cleopatra,” a new documentary depicting the historical figure as a black woman.

egyptindependent.com

Over the years Hollywood has this weird woke obsession of race swapping main characters (mostly white) to only feature minority especially black & latinos. When people complain about it the Hollywood elites and their progressive media hounds were quick to label genuine criticisms as bigotry and racism. They can get away with that in the west. After so long race swapping with impunity and gaslighting all who challenge them, now they face real push back from a place where their far-left ideology doesn't hold sway. And western laws hold even lesser sway.

Blackwashing Cleopatra from her Greek ethnicity has now landed Netflix in hot sand - hot Egyptian sand! Netflix is being sued for Afrocentrism and trying to eliminate ethnic Egyptian identity by falsifying history. In the lingo of the woke "We don't want your cultural imperialism". The woke Hollywood got too comfortable with their race swapping of historical people in their own lands unimpeded, they forgot the larger world don't operate on the same illogical ideology as them.

I hope the lawsuit succeed and Netflix gets heavily fined or booted out from Egypt. It is high time woke Hollywood learn that the rest of the world don't fancy their far-left racist ideology.

 

[PsaltiChrysostom]

There were people who objected to Rami Malek playing Pharoah Ahkmenrah in Night At The Museum, even though his parents are Egyptian immigrants. They thought Hollywood was whitewashing a fictional pharaoh.

 

[dzheremi]

Hahahaha.

I find it funny that the charge is that they are whitewashing ethnic Egyptians by portraying an ethnically Greek person as black, but I still hope the lawsuit wins. Egyptians have to deal with this stuff twice as bad as most other people, it seems, since for some reason these 'Afrocentrist' pseudo-scholars are all obsessed with Egypt in particular. Egyptians can't just be Egyptians, apparently; they have to be either lily white or jet black. Nothing in between, despite the vast majority of actual Egyptian people being in between.

 

[IceJad]

There were people who objected to Rami Malek playing Pharoah Ahkmenrah in Night At The Museum, even though his parents are Egyptian immigrants. They thought Hollywood was whitewashing a fictional pharaoh.

That's a long while ago. Good movie for what it was. Let's me guess the people who objected were not Egyptian but rather Americans or at least westerners. And let me give a further guess that the people who objected were ignorant of the fact that Egyptians are rather fair in comparison to subsaharan Africans.

 

[IceJad]

Hahahaha.

I find it funny that the charge is that they are whitewashing ethnic Egyptians by portraying an ethnically Greek person as black, but I still hope the lawsuit wins. Egyptians have to deal with this stuff twice as bad as most other people, it seems, since for some reason these 'Afrocentrist' pseudo-scholars are all obsessed with Egypt in particular. Egyptians can't just be Egyptians, apparently; they have to be either lily white or jet black. Nothing in between, despite the vast majority of actual Egyptian people being in between.

Very true Egyptians get historically portrayed in movie inaccurately. Like most people around the Mediterranean they tend to have olive tone skin.

 

[DaisyDay]

Trailer:

From the article:

The complaint submitted against Netflix stated, “Most of what Netflix platform displays do not conform to Islamic and societal values and principles, especially Egyptian ones.”​

 

[FireDragon76]

Cleopatra was of the Ptolemeic dynasty, who were Greeks that partially assimilated to Egyptian culture.

Frankly, I don't expect much to come of it. It's entertainment, not serious history.

 

[ThatRobGuy]

Seems like a publicity grab for the lawyer.

From the article, they link to the Lawyer's yellow pages entry (although the name's not exactly the same, so maybe the article got it wrong and it's a different attorney and the author of the article made a mistake)

But I highly doubt that a lawyer with almost no web presence, operating out of a dingy strip mall between a barber shop and the "Kolo Ala El Fahm BBQ", is going to pose any serious legal challenge to the legal team at an organization like Netlfix.

 

[PsaltiChrysostom]

Seems like a publicity grab for the lawyer.

From the article, they link to the Lawyer's yellow pages entry (although the name's not exactly the same, so maybe the article got it wrong and it's a different attorney and the author of the article made a mistake)

But I highly doubt that a lawyer with almost no web presence, operating out of a dingy strip mall between a barber shop and the "Kolo Ala El Fahm BBQ", is going to pose any serious legal challenge to the legal team at an organization like Netlfix.

Maybe he has a billboard where he is wearing a suit, a serious look and pointing!

We don't get paid until YOU get paid!

 

[Desk trauma]

Fine Egyptian jurisprudence. On par with the suit against Israel to recoup the “plunder” taken during the exodus.

 

[ThatRobGuy]

Maybe he has a billboard where he is wearing a suit, a serious look and pointing!

We don't get paid until YOU get paid!
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Being an Ohio native, I always associate that kind of billboard with Tim Misny.

He started with billboards like these

Then this....

...and once it got to the point where everyone knew the slogan, they morphed into just this lol

At which point it's not even an advertisement, he must just be doing it for fun.

 

[PsaltiChrysostom]

Fine Egyptian jurisprudence. On par with the suit against Israel to recoup the “plunder” taken during the exodus.

I gotta figure out who I can sue on behalf of my ancestors. I'm a typical American "mutt" so someone probably owes me something for something hundreds or thousands of years ago.

 

[PsaltiChrysostom]

Being an Ohio native, I always associate that kind of billboard with Tim Misny.

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At which point it's not even an advertisement, he must just be doing it for fun.

Since the number is a 419 area code, is he planning on suing Michigan over the Toledo Strip?

Of course Buckeyes should be suing the Wolverines for anything (I was born and raised in Cincinnati)

 

[ThatRobGuy]

Since the number is a 419 area code, is he planning on suing Michigan over the Toledo Strip?

Of course Buckeyes should be suing the Wolverines for anything (I was born and raised in Cincinnati)

He's expanded and has branches all over the state I think.

For a while he was just in the Cleveland area, but that People's Eyebrow (who did it first, him or The Rock??) took him to Ohio stardom lol

But I digress...

 

[durangodawood]

Egyptian lawyer sues Netflix over Queen Cleopatra - Egypt Independent

Egyptian lawyer Mahmoud al-Semary filed a case with the Public Prosecutor to shut down the Netflix platform in Egypt, following the trailer release of “Queen Cleopatra,” a new documentary depicting the historical figure as a black woman.

egyptindependent.com

Over the years Hollywood has this weird woke obsession of race swapping main characters (mostly white) to only feature minority especially black & latinos. When people complain about it the Hollywood elites and their progressive media hounds were quick to label genuine criticisms as bigotry and racism. They can get away with that in the west. After so long race swapping with impunity and gaslighting all who challenge them, now they face real push back from a place where their far-left ideology doesn't hold sway. And western laws hold even lesser sway.

Blackwashing Cleopatra from her Greek ethnicity has now landed Netflix in hot sand - hot Egyptian sand! Netflix is being sued for Afrocentrism and trying to eliminate ethnic Egyptian identity by falsifying history. In the lingo of the woke "We don't want your cultural imperialism". The woke Hollywood got too comfortable with their race swapping of historical people in their own lands unimpeded, they forgot the larger world don't operate on the same illogical ideology as them.

I hope the lawsuit succeed and Netflix gets heavily fined or booted out from Egypt. It is high time woke Hollywood learn that the rest of the world don't fancy their far-left racist ideology.

Have all the opinions you want about artistic creations. Fine.

But using the law to force your opinion on others...... Sooo conservative!

 

[The IbanezerScrooge]

Egyptian lawyer sues Netflix over Queen Cleopatra - Egypt Independent

Egyptian lawyer Mahmoud al-Semary filed a case with the Public Prosecutor to shut down the Netflix platform in Egypt, following the trailer release of “Queen Cleopatra,” a new documentary depicting the historical figure as a black woman.

egyptindependent.com

Over the years Hollywood has this weird woke obsession of race swapping main characters (mostly white) to only feature minority especially black & latinos. When people complain about it the Hollywood elites and their progressive media hounds were quick to label genuine criticisms as bigotry and racism. They can get away with that in the west. After so long race swapping with impunity and gaslighting all who challenge them, now they face real push back from a place where their far-left ideology doesn't hold sway. And western laws hold even lesser sway.

Blackwashing Cleopatra from her Greek ethnicity has now landed Netflix in hot sand - hot Egyptian sand! Netflix is being sued for Afrocentrism and trying to eliminate ethnic Egyptian identity by falsifying history. In the lingo of the woke "We don't want your cultural imperialism". The woke Hollywood got too comfortable with their race swapping of historical people in their own lands unimpeded, they forgot the larger world don't operate on the same illogical ideology as them.

I hope the lawsuit succeed and Netflix gets heavily fined or booted out from Egypt. It is high time woke Hollywood learn that the rest of the world don't fancy their far-left racist ideology.

"Hollywood", lol

Nutopia (production company) - Wikipedia

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[durangodawood]

Next thing you know theyll be suing to block prophet Muhammed cartoons.

 

[durangodawood]

Thats it.... Im suing Amazon for casting a black Dwarf.

 

[ThatRobGuy]

Have all the opinions you want about artistic creations. Fine.

But using the law to force your opinion on others...... Sooo conservative!

It's always been a murky territory with regards to "international laws" (with regards to various forms of art that gets transmitted over the internet, and whether or not you have to adhere to the laws of other countries)

I don't see any reason why a US-based company has to operate within the guidelines of what does or doesn't offend the sensibilities of people in other countries, nor certain foreign rulings for that matter.

If a platform who's content delivery mechanism is the internet (be it movies like Netflix, or social media) is based out of a particular country, and other countries don't like what they have on there, the onus should be on those other countries to invest in the tech interventions that would block it from coming in. Not on origin country's company to coddle everyone else.

However, I think certain precedents were set when Germany threatened legal action against Facebook because people (elsewhere in the world) were posting things that violated certain German speech laws, and Facebook caved and started removing posts.

Likewise when Australia tried to demand that Facebook owed their publishers money whenever someone linked their articles on the platform (although Facebook opted to just shutdown the news section for Australia...for which, they also cried about)


From my perspective, I don't care how an Egyptian judge may rule against Netflix, offended people in other countries shouldn't be able to dictate what I can or can't watch. And if Egypt wants to prevent its citizens from accessing certain things, it's on them to find a way to block it...not to expect that a US-based company is going to sink exorbitant sums into trying to cater to the "strictest common denominator" and to try to make 194 other countries happy with the content.

 

[MyOwnSockPuppet]

There were people who objected to Rami Malek playing Pharoah Ahkmenrah in Night At The Museum, even though his parents are Egyptian immigrants. They thought Hollywood was whitewashing a fictional pharaoh.

One of my favourite ways of tweaking people who at this point truly deserve it is pointing out Ben Kingsley played Gandhi, while failing to mention that while it's been his stage name since the 1960s he only changed it legally relatively recently.