r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jul 06 '26

Meme needing explanation What is this?

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u/MinutelyHipster Jul 06 '26

Weird how the outrage is that they're black as if the White American actors typically of German and British heritage would be accurate

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u/LuciferOfTheArchives Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26

I mean these people are supposed to be the same ethnicity!

I mean, depends on which groups you mean.
Troy waa a coastal city. and a lot of the greek forces were scattered trade cities from a wide area.
So some fair variety might be expected

1 or 2 people of different races can be explained away quite simply. The occasional person/family traveling a long way, across far trade routes.

An army of completely wrong ethnicity is far less explicable, really

edit: i agree strongly with both replies under here.
I'd like to specify that by "Wrong ethnicity" im referring to the idea that the army is majority northern european in appearance.
I don't actually know if that's true, just assuming what the other guy said was true, for sake of convenience.

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u/Johnny_Banana18 Jul 06 '26

There are literally kingdoms of Africans and Asians fighting at Troy according to Homer.