By Jon Donnis
Despite following various DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) programmes and relying on funds from international hedge funds to push a far-left, 'woke' agenda, Netflix has one major flaw, or perhaps it isn't a flaw but by design: they appear to have no issue being incredibly racist towards White people or anyone who doesn't fit the so-called "oppressed" narrative. Their latest abomination is called Kaos. The tagline for the show states that it "revolves around three humans as they discover their connection to each other and to a long-standing ancient prophecy while they deal with corrupt and arrogant gods of Classical mythology."
So far, so good, right? WRONG.
The moment the show begins, you hear the voiceover from Stephen Dillane as Prometheus. Stephen is English Irish-Australian. Alright, we can accept one part being played by a non-Greek actor, but who is next? Well, if you've seen the poster, you'll know that Jeff Goldblum plays Zeus. Jeff is probably the world's most famous Jewish actor—so, not Greek.
Let's look at more of the cast. Surely, we can find one Greek actor:
Janet McTeer as Hera – English actress.
Cliff Curtis as Poseidon – New Zealand Māori.
David Thewlis as Hades – English.
Killian Scott as Orpheus – Irish.
Debi Mazar as Medusa – Latvian-American.
Aurora Perrineau as Riddy (Eurydice) – Her name sounds somewhat Greek, right? And... she's a mixed-race 'nepo baby' of the Black actor from Lost.
And so on. I could go through the entire cast and find nearly every ethnicity—Arabs, Black actors, Indians. They even have transgender people on the crew and washed-up pop stars, but, for the life of me, there isn't a single Greek actor in the main cast.
However, I did find one Greek actor who is not listed in the credits: Peter Polycarpou, of Birds of a Feather fame. He has a brief cameo as a street vendor, and while none of the other characters in the show have a Greek accent, he speaks with a thick, stereotypical Greek accent, despite being a Londoner.
In general, I don't really care about the ethnicity of actors in a show, but in this world of woke ideology, where you dare not offend anyone or culturally appropriate, it seems bizarre that Netflix, the kings of 'wokeness', would not cast a single ethnically Greek actor in any of the main roles.
And before you argue that there aren't any big-name Greek actors, let me list a few: Jennifer Aniston as Hera, John Stamos as Zeus, Theo James as Hades. Other big-name actors who could fill these roles include Nia Vardalos, Zach Galifianakis, Tina Fey, and Maria Menounos, these are just the names that come to mind immediately.
I believe this huge misstep by Netflix exposes their true agenda. They don't actually care about being culturally correct; they merely follow whatever the hedge fund investors instruct, which appears to be race-swapping great figures in history or mythology and pushing a far-left, degenerate ideology.
It's such a shame, as I was really looking forward to this series. But when it's set in Crete, and even the supermarket announcements are in English, I can no longer give them the benefit of the doubt. Instead, I must assume this blatant racism was done intentionally.
This is a terrible take. They're playing fantasy characters that have very little to do with the original mythology. It would be racist if they were playing real people; not based on a dead religion nobody worships. A racist film would be John Wayne playing Ghenghis Kahn; not Robin Wright playing Antiope in Wonder Woman.
ReplyDeleteDude, Netflix have a history of this, they made Cleopatra black. They always take Greek characters, historical or mythological and raceswap them.
DeleteGreek mythology is still a big part of of the culture.
You are being racist by the simple fact you cant understand this.
If Blade was played by a white guy, would you say thats fine? Or would you moan that one of the few black super heroes has been raceswapped? I think we know the answer to that?
Or if Black Panther was cast as a white guy? All fictional characters right? So its ok? Is that what you are saying?
"If Blade was played by a white guy, would you say thats fine?"
DeleteYes. Just like if Spider-Man was being played by a black guy. You're a moron if you can't understand the difference. Saying "ma culture!" is what is racist because you won't accept the idea that fictional characters can't be anything other than white Greeks.
I think you are being disingenius.
DeleteIf they took a famous black character and made them white, you would call it racist.
Also Greek Mythology is not the same as just fictional characters like Spiderman.
They were literally religious figures that inspired the greatest minds in history.
Were literally a part of not just great works of art, but architecture, The Colossus of Rhodes literally of of the seven wonders of the world.
Now I am interested why you threw in the "white greeks" comments. Greeks in general do not self identify in that way, they will say "I am greek", regardless of their skin colour, Greeks in the mountains are very dark skined, where as ones in cities are more olive pale. One look at me and I am pretty brown with black hair, yet my uncle was pale and blonde haired, Greeks are incredibly diverse, so to say "white greeks" and try to use the racism card in that way really does expose your ignorance and racism.
Sad as I thought we were having a fair debate, but instead you are just another crazy racist woke liberal. If I had to guess, I would say you are a white Ashkenazi Jew. Purely from your attitude and hatred of "white people"