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QUEEN CLEOPATRA: Netflix sued by Egyptian lawyer for blackwashing history
Greek city times ^ | 20th April 2023

Posted on 04/19/2023 8:00:56 PM PDT by Cronos

An Egyptian lawyer has filed a case with the Public Prosecutor to close the Netflix platform after the trailer of “Queen Cleopatra" was released, which depicts the Greek historical figure as a black-skinned woman.

According to Egypt Independent, Mahmoud al-Semary demanded that all legal measures be taken against those responsible for the documentary and the management of the streaming platform for its participation in “this crime.” He also called for an investigation and for Netflix to be blocked in Egypt.

The complaint submitted against the streaming platform said that "most of what Netflix platform displays contradicts Islamic and societal values and principles, especially Egyptian ones."

It added that the platform displayed advertisements that attracted millions of people in the world to watch the documentary Queen Cleopatra, who was of Greek origin depicting her as black woman, unlike Egyptian history and civilization.

The case said that the documentary promotes Afrocentrism that is widely spread on social media, which have slogans and writings aimed at distorting and obliterating the Egyptian identity.

The complaint continued addressing Public Prosecution: "In order to preserve the Egyptian national and cultural identity among Egyptians all over the world and take pride in it, and to consolidate the spirit of belonging to the homeland, and accordingly we ask and seek you to take the necessary legal measures against this platform."

It demanded stopping broadcasts showing all works aimed at obliterating and distorting the Egyptian identity, through films aimed at falsifying and distorting history in Egypt.

The complaint accused makers of the documentary and platform management of forgery.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: afrocentrism; blackwashing; cleopatra; cleopatravii; cultureappropriation; egypt; falsehistory; godsgravesglyphs; macedonian; netflix; romanempire
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1 posted on 04/19/2023 8:00:56 PM PDT by Cronos
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To: Cronos

People suing because they don’t like how a movie was made? The plaintiff should be tossed in the Nile. It’s a friggin’ movie.


2 posted on 04/19/2023 8:02:34 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Cronos

She was a Macedonian Greek, as even the weakest student of European history knows.


3 posted on 04/19/2023 8:04:06 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Cronos

Africans don’t have much history that shows them as the wise, noble, honorable people the left loves to portray them as, so they just make some up.

It’s so utterly ridiculous at this point.


4 posted on 04/19/2023 8:08:24 PM PDT by Bullish (Either we don't see it coming or they don't... But somebody's got it coming.)
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To: Cronos

I stand with the Egyptians against the degenerates at Netflix and elsewhere in America.


5 posted on 04/19/2023 8:14:12 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

I wonder why he’s alleging ‘anti-Islamism’.

Cleopatra and her forbears were Greek long before Islam ever even existed.

This is kind of funny.


6 posted on 04/19/2023 8:15:11 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Cronos

Jada Smith strikes again. She SLAP’s history upside the head.


7 posted on 04/19/2023 8:17:36 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: Cronos

hey Mahmoud al-Semarym havent ya heard? Whitewashing/Blackwashing and distorting history is all the rage these days- get with the program


8 posted on 04/19/2023 8:19:33 PM PDT by Bob434 (question )
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To: Jamestown1630
True; they worshiped the Egyptian gods and goddesses, which had, over the centuries , a bit of ancient Greek Mythology overlaid onto that religion.

And not all Egyptians, today, are Muslims.

9 posted on 04/19/2023 8:21:03 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Cronos

Yay! Good move!


10 posted on 04/19/2023 8:21:25 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Cronos
The case said that the documentary promotes Afrocentrism that is widely spread on social media, which have slogans and writings aimed at distorting and obliterating the Egyptian identity.

So many BBC dramas now have blacks as historical British figures. I wish people could successfully sue the BBC for "distorting and obliterating" English identity. And I'm not even English.

11 posted on 04/19/2023 8:25:00 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Chad C. Mulligan
She was a Macedonian Greek, as even the weakest student of European history knows.

I once met a black woman (an aspiring screenwriter) who insisted that Cleopatra was black. I'm sure many blacks think so.

Some blacks even think Shakespeare, King James I, and Beethoven were black.

12 posted on 04/19/2023 8:26:57 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Angelino97

Do they think that H!tler was black, too?

Dark skin, black hair...


13 posted on 04/19/2023 8:31:45 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Angelino97

...and Elvis Presley.


14 posted on 04/19/2023 8:32:04 PM PDT by miserare ( Impeach Joe Biden!)
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To: Cronos

Hamilton wasn’t black...Ahhhh...NYC...the city where everything goes.


15 posted on 04/19/2023 8:32:34 PM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Cronos

This Cleopatra kerfuffle is saying the quiet part out loud.

While American/European culture has, over time, come to not only accept but to celebrate people of African descent, most other people are irredeemably racist towards them.

Egyptians are mortified to be represented as black.


16 posted on 04/19/2023 8:34:48 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Jamestown1630
I wonder why he’s alleging ‘anti-Islamism’.

Cleopatra had no connection whatsoever with Islam. Julius Caesar put a statue of her in a temple of Venus in Rome, associating her with that goddess. Her subjects would have been Zeusists, Platonists, a small Jewish community, and worshippers of Egyptian deities.

17 posted on 04/19/2023 8:35:02 PM PDT by Rufii
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To: Cronos

Yet another rancid, steaming log drop into the white porcelain bowl of wokeness.


18 posted on 04/19/2023 8:35:32 PM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: Cronos

Was black Cleo allies with Wakanda? What is the current truth this week anyways?


19 posted on 04/19/2023 8:36:08 PM PDT by Nateman (If Mohammad was not the Anti Christ Mad Moe definitely comes in as a Strong second..)
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To: Angelino97

I guess most of us are all ‘mixed-up and turned-around’, if you go back far enough.

(Meghan Markle is about 1/4 ‘Black’, if that; but she’s making a crusade out of that...)


20 posted on 04/19/2023 8:40:44 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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