Rupert Murdoch Under Fire for Stunningly Tone-Deaf Tweets

Rupert Murdoch, who has officially entered the Shit My Dad Says phase of his career, caused a stir this weekend when defending his studio’s new movie, Exodus: Gods And Kings, in the most amazingly tone-deaf way imaginable. 

The Ridley Scott-directed movie, which is set in ancient Egypt, has been copping some flack on the internet in recent weeks for featuring an all-white cast, and relegating people of colour to secondary roles.
Murdoch popped his head out earlier today to address the claims, and after blinking a few times in confusion and asking an underling what year it is, he sent out a series of Tweets letting everyone know it’s cool, uncle Rupert’s got this.

The internet sensed a great disturbance, and immediately began piling on, after which, Murdoch back-pedaled explaining that most Egyptians are ‘far from black’ and treated blacks as slaves, something we know for a fact to be true because of other Hollywood movies.
A few of the film’s stars have responded to the claims. Joel ‘Straya’ Edgerton said that he does “understand and empathise with that position,” but casting decisions were out of his hands, and Christian Bale took a straight-down-the-line ‘deal with it’ approach. 

Exodus: Gods And Kings opens December 12 in America, one week before The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies, Annie and the new Night At The Museum arrive to erase it from that nation’s collective memory forever.
You can see it locally on December 4, should you desire.

via Complex

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