#but romans were racist to syrians blah blah they had the characters we were rooting for say the same racist shit and

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Like spartacus was a fun show it was a starz show where 90% of footage was directed to the lower half of gladiator characters so..u should not pick fights online with ppl over a show like that and if you do sincerely log off

But personally despite liking the show it like most media depicting the classical world is racist and orientalist. No dispute no argument I have a PhD from palestinian made university in recognizing that shit and even tho nasirs arc was pretty good and his relationship with agron a win for lgbt rep uhm.. I can still say orientalist and his character enforced that orientalism by playing the "good" syrian

But I didn't really care bc I expected that type of racism and like this was from 10 years ago

#but romans were racist to syrians blah blah they had the characters we were rooting for say the same racist shit and #the show writers realized they probably were too racist about it and introduced nasir and had crixus apologize to nasir for assuming #he was a liar bc he was syrian but nasir was lying in that moment so it was all bullshit #and they never revisited his heritage then #and orientalism is coupled with fetishism of oriental characters so yeah still is despite show writers intentions sorry not sorry