MacFarlane: I'm filling a notebook with misinformation spreading about January 6th today. The idea that these cases were wrongful, no case was overturned, not a one on appeal. And lots of people appealed. They had a 100% success rate for juries at trial.

This is the worst part of it. To know that there are so many horrible, racist, evil people in this country. To know that so many of our family, (former) friends and neighbors support this.

In a blow to the White House, Senate Republicans will remove a $1 billion Secret Service funding request that would help Trump’s ballroom project from their immigration enforcement funding bill amid internal objections.

Because the racists now feel safe to come out into the open.

It's a trump-related outrage from people who were always racist.

Before, racists and obvious bigots felt unsafe speaking up then as they would be put down quickly. Due to anonymity of social media and with a lot of countries electing leaders with bigoted views, these empower bigots in the society into saying what they like without consequence. Lead by example!

That’s why it doesn’t matter what skin color she has. It just needs to transport the concept of Beauty. It is an interpretation. Every incarnation has and will have parts specific to its era. Like the interpretation of what beauty is. Otherwise you’d have to argue why Nolan didn’t use Ancient Greek

That assumes modern concepts of beauty are the same as those in the early bronze age. I don't believe they are the same.

Or. Or! Hear me out: maybe race and skin color had nothing to do with it?! Maybe Nolan just thought she is extremely beautiful AND the best actress for HIS vision of the part. It’s HIS interpretation. Why one side is so bent over a new BLACK interpretation of a figure they’ve never given a 🦆 about 🤷‍♀️

Troy was located in modern-day Turkey. Back in the early 1900s, Turkish people were excluded from the "white" category in U.S. law due to anti-immigrant prejudice. So, actually, Helen could have been a POC "if" she had existed. Lastly, anyone not liking the casting can stay home. 🤷‍♀️

Because of a certain child rapist impostor in the People's house

You would think that these people would’ve read the Odyssey in school. Zeus fell in love with the swan concert to seduce her without raising suspicion of his jealous wife Zeus transformed himself into a swan and Helen of Troy was hatched from an egg. It is truly a ridiculous controversy.

— yes, this is my silly conspiracy that the most irritating aspects of the “woke agenda” are being funded by conservative investment firms, specifically because they WANTED to do it in a way that would make “the common man” more conservative. I.E.; Stupid, stubborn, and spiteful.

Conservative CEO’s hadn’t had decades to cram the word “Woke” down people’s throats in the 90’s. Specifically in a way that would infuriate people and turn a large number of them into anti-woke trolls, who would GLADLY support a child-raping con artist just to “own the libs”. —

A simple google search would tell you ancient Greece had black people there........ So this outrage is simple racism with no real leg to stand on.....

Racism is so much more mainstream than in years before Trump! Hell, their Jesus is still blonde with blue eyes and Judas is always black! Go figure!!!

Always this rank hypocrisy from the racists when it comes to skin color. If it's OK to cast a bunch of people who look like Vikings in the parts of all the swarthy Turkish and Greek protagonists, then it has to be just as OK to cast a Black woman as Helen!

Eartha Kitt played Helen of Troy in a stage adaptation, and that was way before the ‘90s.

I will never tire of Alanis Morrisette as God in Dogma. Just IMAGINE!!!!! that movie coming out now????? 🤣🤣🤣 the fake Christians’ rage! I can practically taste it!!!!

As long as Jesus, a Palestinian, is portrayed by white actors. Right?

Plot twist: Jesus isn’t white!

Bigots: You should hire based on the person, not skin color! Also bigots: This celebrated actor is not the right skin color!

Exactly. I miss Wonder Woman (Lynda Carter) from the 70s. The show was blatantly critical of the patriarchy. Nancy Drew was, too. We were so much more woke pre-2000.

Helen of Troy's whole deal is that she's the most beautiful woman in the world. There are many women who could play that role but if you don't think Luipta Nyong'o is EASILY one of them, you just don't know what beauty is.

People concerned about historical inaccuracy in a fictional story that has been adapted hundreds of times should be ranting about The Lion King instead. Um, excuse me... Hamlet wasn't a lion! Such bad casting! The female characters were voiced by women? That's not true to Shakespeare's vision!

We didn't have a child raping lying grifter as a "president" back then, nor the ignorant shitstain cultists that worship him. Of course, the very same people who are offended by a Black Helen of Troy have never read a book, never mind a translated Greek saga (they don't know "saga" either).

It gives the MaGa mob something to whine rage about instead of their corrupt criminal in the White House, illegal Iran war, inflation, gas prices and of course the Epstein files.

The old Xena and Hercules series did this sort of thing all the time. In one episode, Cecrops, the legendary first king of Athens, was played by a Black actor with a plummy Jamaican accent. In another, loosely based on the Gilgamesh legends, Iolaos's love interest Nebula was a Black actress.

Uh, how is abortion illegal again? christian nationalist fascism. That’s how.

There was some brief controversy over the 2023 Doctor Who episode Wild Blue Yonder casting British-Indian actor Nathaniel Curtis as Sir Isaac Newton. Sure, the real Newton was lily-white, but otherwise you look at Curtis (in a cute comedic opening scene) and think “Boom – that’s Newton”.

It's social media. Nobody use to give crap about this stuff. I still don't.

Yes but you see they want to take us all the way back to the 30s. The 1830s.

Faux News needs, absolutely needs to ragebait to keep their viewers interested. I wonder if it'll ever get tiresome to those viewers. Or, maybe they thrive on it the same way I read reddit drama posts.

In Greek Mythology, Andromeda is the daughter of the king and queen of Ethiopia. All were whitewashed in the classic 1981 movie Clash of Titans. Perseus rescues Andromeda from the sea monster and returns to Greece with her as his queen. Apparently miscegenation wasn't a problem back in those days.

Helen of Troy was a Greek mythological character— part mortal & part swan. She hatched from an egg produced by Leda, a mortal queen of Sparta, and Zeus, a god who transformed himself into a swan. None of this is real, BTW. It's just mythology.

Well said, Ms. Gwynnie!

Because all of these modern controversies are manufactured discontent driven by right wing extremists trying to rile people up about a nebulous 'before' time that never existed.

How many white men played Indians? Both native American and Indians?

Kurt Russell wasn’t fat enough to play Santa.

It's racism's kissing-cousin, colorism. Lupita is a dark-skinned Black woman, not a light-skinned Black woman. I want to say to them: "Zeus impregnated Leda while in the form of a swan and she was born from an egg. NONE of these actors look bird-like to me, but I'm willing to suspend disbelief..."

I watch a lot of old tv and I’ve noticed most of it was more ‘woke’ than tv today. Watched an episode of WKRP from 1980 where abortion was discussed as a medical issue to be decided solely by the woman, whose body is affected.

Sad, miserable, soulless people make things like this a controversy. They wouldn't have seen movie anyway.

Because we have a racist, misogynistic, incestuous, and traitoris dirtbag as president. He is leading a charge to let all of the freaks that have been the underbelly of our nation to come out and let their voices be heard.

please everyone knows helen was white with a british accent /s

This is the impact of Trump's life-long racism poisoning the public square.

It's ridiculous in that it was probably started by a few RW provocateurs when most people don't care one way or another. It's a work of fiction, might as well be mad that Nolan didn't cast a real Cyclops either.

I always imagined she looked like Claudette Colbert.

Cleopatra did look like Elizabeth Taylor right?

The biggest scandal is the white Jesus.

All this hand wringing from the people who think Jesus was white. Very on-brand.