'Since when are Egyptians not white? All I know are': Rupert Murdoch

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'Since when are Egyptians not white? All I know are': Rupert Murdoch faces ridicule after tweeting his thoughts on row about white actors playing roles in new Moses film

Rupert Murdoch tweeted that all Egyptians he knows are white
Media mogul's comment is in defence of backlash over white actors playing Egyptians in the Exodus: Gods and Kings - movie about Moses' life
Twitter fans blew up at his remark saying he is ignorant and ill-informed
He replied that Egyptians are middle eastern and treated 'blacks as slaves'



Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has landed himself in hot water after declaring on social media that all Egyptians are white and treated 'blacks as slaves'.

Social media users are urging people to boycott of Exodus: Gods and Kings, which tells the story of Moses, calling it ‘offensive’ and ‘unacceptable’ that white actors are playing the roles of Egyptians.

The News Corp owner tweeted a post declaring that he didn't see what the problem was with film director Ridley Scott's decision to cast white people in the leading roles because Murdoch all Egyptians he knows are white.

Twitter followers launched into the 83-year-old who then dug an even bigger hole when trying to explain his remark.

Mr Murdoch's post that started the Twitter outrage says: 'Moses film attacked on Twitter for all white cast. Since when are Egyptians not white? All I know are.'

One follower sarcastically asked if Murdoch had attempted satire while simply asked him to 'STOP.'

Omar X lashed out describing his statement as 'bull***t'.

'For someone who runs the world's media, you're a rather ill-informed moron.' he posted.

Someone who goes by the twitter handle - Heauxbehavior - echoed those sentiments.

'You're funny. And TERRIBLY misinformed. And beyond ignorant.'

While a woman named Amy posted: 'Jesus Rupe, all that money and you know hee-haw about people.'

Murdoch then attempted to explain his stance by saying: 'Everybody-attacks last tweet. Of course Egyptians are Middle Eastern, but far from black. They treated blacks as slaves.'

This only angered Twitter followers even more.

'It seems @rupertmurdoch's Twitter account has been hacked by @rupertmurdoch,' Richard Robbins posted.

'Ever tired of being wrong?' asked someone who goes by the Twitter handle: StopSelfServatives.

However, Murdoch did not stop there and clearly became agitated by the negative comments.

'Okay, there are many shades of color. Nothing racist about that, so calm down!' he posted.

'Uh oh, did Uncle Rupie say something racist again? #RacistRupert,' Jeff Cormier posted.

Shawn Pasternak suggested that Murdoch should stop while he's behind.

'@rupertmurdoch no really, delete your account,' he tweeted.

Cindy Chin asked Murdoch if he was referring to his' Egyptian cotton sheets'.

The controversy has stemmed from Scott's decision to employ white actors in the leading roles claiming he would not have been able to finance its $40 millionUSD budget if he had hired unknown Egyptian actors instead of established Hollywood stars.

The title role is played by Christian Bale, which one Twitter user said was ‘akin to casting George Clooney to play Malcolm X’.

The film, which opens on Boxing Day, also features Sigourney Weaver, Australian Joel Edgerton and Aaron Paul, who is best known for his role as Jessie in the hit television series Breaking Bad.

While a number of ethnic minority actors have also been cast, including Sir Ben Kingsley, the majority of the non-white performers are in background roles, often even playing slaves or criminals.

The hashtag #boycottexodusmovie has been trending on Twitter as posters express movie fans' anger over the film's casting of white actors as Egyptians.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2853760/Since-Egyptians-not-white-know-Rupert-Murdoch-gets-slammed-comments-backlash-white-actors-playing-leading-roles-new-epic-Moses-film.html

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wen will oyinbo finallee learn dat da earlee egyptians were blakks ann moses a myth?

ashay
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[Tuff Gong]

A reminder that some of the most powerful folks on earth are not exactly Einsteins.

[Wahalla]

A reminder that some of the most powerful folks on earth are not exactly Einsteins.

It seems all the objectors are non Egyptians....I am interested in what the Egyptians comments...
Remember the comments on Louis Gosset Jnr when he played Anwar Sadat.... in the TV mini series apart from the critism of the portrayal of the Egyptian...

[lonewolf]

C'mon people, it's Hollywierd. There hasn't been a lick of truth ever to come out of that town. They pretending or acting when they think they are telling the truth...Truth does not sell

It's a fantasy world.

But they are big time Obama supporters. (so what does that tell ya)

[jah_yout]

Murdoch is one of the people responsible for global whitewashing of everything and global white supremacy so of course he thinks that every important person in history was white. ..
a hotta fire fi furback murdock

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It seems all the objectors are non Egyptians....I am interested in what the Egyptians comments...
Remember the comments on Louis Gosset Jnr when he played Anwar Sadat.... in the TV mini series apart from the critism of the portrayal of the Egyptian...

They made a movie with a pale arab sadat in egypt...although sadat was clearly what they call "black"..
As far as the movie they're not interested in historical accuracy. ..only in continuing hollyweird whitewashing of global history.
I did a thread dung a faith on this topic

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Lies Told to Make Egypt White


King Tut Was Related to Half of European Men

Scientists at Zurich-based DNA genealogy center iGENEA reconstructed the DNA profile of the boy Pharaoh based on a film that was made for a Discovery Channel special.

According to dailymail.co.uk, the team that made the documentary says it did not display enough information on screen for the iGENEA geneticists to carry out that task.

Carsten Pusch, a geneticist at Germany’s University of Tubingen who was part of the team that unraveled Tut’s DNA from samples taken from his mummy and mummies of his family members, said that iGENEA’s claims are “simply impossible.

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Mummies Had Blond or Red Hair

Some mummies were said to have been found with blond, red or straight hair. That was thought to be an indication that the Egyptians weren’t Black Africans.

Two British anthropologists, Don Brothwell and Richard Spearman, have found evidence of cortex keratin oxidation in ancient Egyptian hair. They held that the mummification process was responsible because of the strong alkaline substance used. This resulted in the yellowing and browning of hair as well as the straightening effect.

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Art and Sculptures Prove Ancient Egyptians Were Not Black

Manu Ampim, a professor at Merritt College specializing in African and African-American history and culture, claims in the book “Modern Fraud: The Forged Ancient Egyptian Statues of Ra-Hotep and Nofret” that many ancient Egyptian statues and artworks are modern frauds that have been created specifically to hide the “fact” that the ancient Egyptians were Black, while authentic artworks that demonstrate Black characteristics are systematically defaced or even “modified.”

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Egyptians Were Racist Against Nubians in Antiquity

Some modern-day Eurocentric scholars have argued that the ancient Egyptians hated and enslaved the Nubians because they were Black. They often use the Egyptian art depicting wars between ancient Egyptians and Nubians as evidence.

However, in the 18th century, French historian Count Volney wrote that “the ancient Egyptians were true negroes of the same type as all native born Africans.” Just a few years later, French scholar Jean-Jacques Champollion-Figeac stated in “Egypte Ancienne,” published in 1839, that the Egyptians and Nubians are represented in the same manner in tomb paintings and reliefs.

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Race and Skin Color Were Accurate in Drawings

Some argue that the Egyptians drew themselves in a reddish color to separate themselves from the Black-colored people in their art.

University of Chicago scholars assert that Nubians are generally depicted with black paint, but the skin pigment used in Egyptian paintings to refer to Nubians can also range “from dark red to brown to black.”

Historian Cheikh Anta Diop accused mainstream Egyptologists of his day of using the narrowest possible definition of “Blacks” in order to differentiate various African groups such as Egyptians into a European or Caucasoid racial zone

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Africans Were Backwards

Some say that Egyptians couldn’t have been Black Africans because they were “too backwards” to create such a civilization. But according to historian Dr. John Henrik Clarke, when the early Europeans first met Africans at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans were not slaves. Their nations were old before Europe was born. In this period of history, what was to be later known as “Africa” was an unknown place to the people who would someday be called “Europeans.”

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Hamitic Theory: Negroids Are Inferior

According to the theory, the Hamitic race (classified by European authors as a sub-group of the Caucasian race), was superior to and more advanced than the Negroid.

W. E. B. Du Bois wrote that “the term Hamite under which millions of Negroes have been characteristically transferred to the white race by some eager scientists” was a tool to create “false writing on Africa.”

[lonewolf]

If you want to put all this nonsense to rest...fly to Egypt. Last time I looked, there were still Egyptians in Egypt.

Blu, tell me one more time, what color is the sky in your world?