Posted on 07/09/2026 6:27:40 AM PDT by texas booster
Emily Jashinsky is joined by Victor Davis Hanson, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of the forthcoming book, “The Counterrevolution: The Fall and Rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA Movement,”
to discuss the controversy surrounding Christopher Nolan's upcoming adaptation of The Odyssey, focusing on comments by Lupita Nyong'o about telling the story from a female perspective and broader debates over casting and representation.
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“This actress has a Master’s in Fine Arts from Yale”. How in the hell can anyone even have an undergrad degree in Fine Arts from any university without having read the Classics? Es ridiculo. Fine Arts, my ass...
My parents had bought Bullfinch’s Mythology to get bro and I interested in the Classics at an early age-it worked-I started checking out individual books of stories at the library in town-the Classics are interesting stories. The Classics were also included in some HS classes-some were required reading in the honors English course I took in my senior year of HS, but I haven’t heard of a HS offering anything like that in several decades. I still have the Bullfinch’s my parents bought for us as kids.
It is one thing to take liberties with the race/ethnic group and sex of major characters in movies based on recent works of fiction-but the Classics and other works that have been read by millions of people-and are many centuries old and often based on some degree of historical fact are another matter. They are a screenshot of the beliefs and behaviors of the far past-not a vehicle for virtue signalling and PC...
Is an Asian Mr Darcy-or a Black Elizabeth next? Or maybe King Arthur as an Asian-a Samurai warrior-or an Opera with a blonde, Caucasian Madame Butterfly...
We already have a black “Alexander Hamilton” ... which is ridiculous.
I still haven’t figured out how anyone thought that casting screw up was a good idea-some people do live in Lala land...
Ignore that turd
It was a deliberate “EFF YOU!!!” to America.
Yah hah….
Probably-and I will never understand adults indulging in childish behavior like that. They act as though it is a game-who gets to be pissed off and throw the ball way out of bounds-as if it is just a f’ing contest...
“A girl playing a male Greek soldier.” On Newsmax. I saw a video of that girl and some other actors on the set-all in costume-she looks about 4 feet tall-I was LMAO...
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Hermogenes: To be sure.
Socrates: And a true proposition says that which is, and a false proposition says that which is not?
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Socrates: Then in a proposition there is a true and false?
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Socrates: But is a proposition true as a whole only, and are the parts untrue?
Hermogenes: No; the parts are true as well as the whole.
Socrates: Would you say the large parts and not the smaller ones, or every part?
Hermogenes: I should say that every part is true.
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Hermogenes: No; that is the smallest.
Socrates: Then the name is a part of the true proposition?
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I just looked her up and I would have to say “AVERAGE”, not a great beauty but certainly not ugly.
Not a woman I would turn around on on the street to get a better look at!
Not exactly a ‘face to launch a thousand ships’, eh?
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