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Elon Musk threatens to make ‘historically accurate’ version of The Odyssey with Grok
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Um, the Odyssey is fiction. It literally can't be "historically accurate".
It's a dog whistle for casting only white people and no queer actors. If something has a racist angle, assume that's the one Musk means
Ah yes, the famously pale ancient Greeks who definitely only engaged in the "correct" kinds of relationships.
If he isn't an actual fucking idiot, he's a premium rate actor.
Ancient Greeks, ancients Sparta in particular, was gay as f.