Egyptian experts want series banned

Here we have WHITE American XENOPHOBE explaining why Egyptians are somehow 'wrong' about their own history.

Talk about American arrogance, appropriation and imperialism, but exactly what I'd expect from a proud Democrat Party member (remember the DNC is every bit as patriotic, pro-American, jingoistic and pro-war as the damn GOP; the entire political establishment, including the GOP [far-right] and the DNC ['moderate' right] is simply an extension of the industrial-military-complex and advocates for global capitalism. Shame on ANYONE who simps for EITHER party INCLUDING the one founded to preserve SLAVERY). 😠 And shame on the arrogance of a non-archeologist American attacking a qualified Egyptian archeologist as a 'dummy'. The XENOPHOBIA, and RACISM towards North Africans, is strong with this faux-'liberal'.

This subjective, discretionary 'My Truth' view of *history* really needs to be challenged. I'm seeing people categorised as Black simply according to how they make people *feel* or how they are historically perceived, and not in accordance with anything approaching ACTUAL history. This is juvenile, anti-science 'goodies versus baddies' pseudo-history, which contributes to racial division (by treating race as a feeling or a characteristic, rather than an objective matter), it gives too much power to bad faith actors, and it shouldn't be long before wannabes like Rachel Dolezal are embraced as 'POC' simply because that's how they'd prefer to be regarded.

But tell me, if I now choose to identify as Black will you support my delusion? As someone of Iberian ancestry who has been told I have a 'Black nose' (whatever that means), I surely have as much claim to Blackness as Cleopatra, although I am not a dead and misunderstood figure who occupied a foreign nation, committed fratricide, after having sex with a brother, murdered a sister, or seduced two military men in order to maintain my power, so perhaps I don't possess the right stuff to be treated...

What supposed 'intellect' and 'scholar' Keelai fails to add here is that the skeleton she refers to was supposedly of Cleopatra's *half*-sister, Arsionoe IV, and the claim that Cleopatra was part-Black on this basis has been rejected by the overwhelming body of scholars because the remains are impossible to identify as Arsinoe, the race of the remains are impossible to identify at all, the remains belonged to a child much younger than Arsinoe when she died, and although Arsinoe and Cleopatra shared the same father, Ptolemy XII Auletes, they are believed to have had different mothers (hence 'half-sister').

Once again, 'facts' are cherry-picked to serve a narrative, without providing us ALL the facts, and this is why so many of us on the left have a bad name. Because *establishment* Democrats, as opposed to fact-based progressive leftists and liberals, like myself, prefer to manipulate information for their own ends.

Does that make them better or worse than pig-ignorant Republicans and right-wingers?

Arguably, it might make them worse, because you know what they say about a little knowledge...

At least one knows where one stands with most Republicans. EVERYTHING they say can be treated as BULLSHIT, but the DANGEROUS thing about establishment libs like Keelai is that they will trot out *half*-truths to embellish their agenda, *without* giving you the FULL facts, and so it's harder to discern what is and isn't correct.

Macedonians were not Greek, but they were closely related to the Greeks. You also ignore that Alexander the Great's Empire was usurped by the Greeks. So the invaders who took Egypt were primarily Greek. So Cleopatra's ancestors, the Ptolemies, mixed with Greeks in Egypt.

The ancient Egyptians were Semitic, like Arabs and Jews. They were not black like sub-Saharan Africans.

Obviously no one was ethnically pure. Semitics mixed with blacks.

But the idea that Cleopatra was black is ludicrous. She was Macedonian and Greek and probably had some semitic Egyptian in there as well.

A DNA test was also attempted to determine the identity of the child. However, it was impossible to get an accurate reading since the bones had been handled too many times,[27] and the skull had been lost in Germany during World War II. Hilke Thür examined the old notes and photographs of the now-missing skull,[28][29] which was reconstructed using computer technology by forensic anthropologist Caroline Wilkinson to show what the woman may have looked like.[30] Thür alleged that it shows signs of African ancestry mixed with classical Grecian features[16] – despite the fact that Boas, Gravlee, Bernard and Leonard, and others have demonstrated that skull measurements are not a reliable indicator of race,[31] and the measurements were jotted down in 1920 before modern forensic science took hold.

Mary Beard wrote a dissenting essay criticizing the findings, pointing out that, first, there is no surviving name on the tomb and that the claim the tomb is alleged to invoke the shape of the Pharos Lighthouse "doesn't add up"; second, the skull doesn't survive intact and the age of the skeleton is too young to be Arsinoë's (the bones said to be that of a 15-18 year old, with Arsinoë being around her mid twenties at her death); and third, since Cleopatra and Arsinoë were not known to have the same mother, "the ethnic argument goes largely out of the window."[4] Furthermore, craniometry as used by Thür to determine race is based in scientific racism that is now generally considered a pseudoscience that supported exploitation of groups of people to perpetuate racial oppression and distorted future views of the biological basis of race.[33]

They're not?

Hey, if they want to ban X from talking about Y medical consequences, then let's go hog wild and ban fake documentaries too.