Emergency cunting…(Is it though? Oh go on then – NA)
The identity racists on Twitter have gone into meltdown over Israeli actress Gal Gadot playing Cleopatra in a new fillum. Some loud mouthed know-nothings are demanding the part should have gone to an Arab or black actress. Jesus wept.
Here’s some facts…
1/ Cleopatra was the last in the line of the Ptolemaic dynasty who had ruled Egypt since the late fourth century BC after Ptolemy Soter, one of Alexander the Great’s generals, seized power there after Alexander’s death. She was of Greek- Macedonian descent, she was neither African nor Arab.
2/ Egypt was not conquered by Arabs until the 630s AD. Cleopatra died in 30BC. Interesting that those who denounce the USA or Australia as ‘settler-colonialist’ states don’t apply this logic to Egypt. The actual descendants of the Ancient Egyptians are the Copts who make up about 10% of the current population.
3/ Egypt did have black African pharaohs – from Nubia (modern Sudan). Just look at the faces on some of the monuments. Cleopatra was not one of them.
4/ My favourite historically illiterate tweet came from the person who said Cleopatra was born in Alexandria and Alexandria is in Egypt so she was Egyptian. Fuck me sideways. The official name of Alexandria (one of about fifty cities of that name founded by the great king) was Alexandria-By-Egypt not ‘in Egypt.’ Well into the first century AD, Alexandria had a Greek/Jewish population – there were regular riots between the two communities that led to interventions by various Roman emperors.
Learn some fucking history you twats.
Nominated by: Cunt’s Mate Cunt




