A Coptic Christian, if I had to guess? They're what's left of the natives of Egypt, going back to Biblical times and beyond to Narmer, and still standing despite mounting persecution from Egypt's Arab Muslim majority (most recently Obama's favorites in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood). Suffice to say, they don't look anything like the kangz think they do. (See, for example, the outrage that crowd had when Rami Malek was cast as an Egyptian character some years back)
One of my previous bosses was Coptic, and he was pretty proud of his heritage - referred to his people as 'the true sons and daughters of the Pharaohs' & all that. He also had nuclear-hot takes about Islamic Arabs, to put it mildly.
One of my previous bosses was Coptic, and he was pretty proud of his heritage - referred to his people as 'the true sons and daughters of the Pharaohs' & all that. He also had nuclear-hot takes about Islamic Arabs, to put it mildly.
As a gross generalization, Middle Eastern Catholics (Maronites, etc.) tend to be somewhat less based than members of Orthodox Churches (like the Copts). Every single time I see hair-raising regressivism from a Middle Eastern Christian, who really should know better, it's always a Catholic.
Maybe it's a generational thing? Of the Lebanese Maronites I've ever talked to, the older ones tend to still be fans of the Phalange and Lebanese Forces, or at least to believe that everything would be better if the Christian faction had won the Lebanese Civil War (and that they would have if not for those damn meddling Syrians and Iranians).
It's the younger ones who grew up here that are much more likely to have become enmeshed in intersectionality and the culture of the modern West, with all that that entails, at least as far as I can tell.
It's definitely not to generalize, as I'm sure most of them are cool. But of all the pseudo-intellectuals I know who spout this nonsense, e.g. Edward Said, Joseph Massad and a host of others, they're invariably members of the same group, even though they are older (though not Lebanese of course).
My cousin married into a Coptic family (very nice, and they knew each other since we were all in diapers, one of those childhood romances that worked), and while they're quite dark-skinned, they're definitely not "black".
A Coptic Christian, if I had to guess? They're what's left of the natives of Egypt, going back to Biblical times and beyond to Narmer, and still standing despite mounting persecution from Egypt's Arab Muslim majority (most recently Obama's favorites in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood). Suffice to say, they don't look anything like the kangz think they do. (See, for example, the outrage that crowd had when Rami Malek was cast as an Egyptian character some years back)
One of my previous bosses was Coptic, and he was pretty proud of his heritage - referred to his people as 'the true sons and daughters of the Pharaohs' & all that. He also had nuclear-hot takes about Islamic Arabs, to put it mildly.
As a gross generalization, Middle Eastern Catholics (Maronites, etc.) tend to be somewhat less based than members of Orthodox Churches (like the Copts). Every single time I see hair-raising regressivism from a Middle Eastern Christian, who really should know better, it's always a Catholic.
Maybe it's a generational thing? Of the Lebanese Maronites I've ever talked to, the older ones tend to still be fans of the Phalange and Lebanese Forces, or at least to believe that everything would be better if the Christian faction had won the Lebanese Civil War (and that they would have if not for those damn meddling Syrians and Iranians).
It's the younger ones who grew up here that are much more likely to have become enmeshed in intersectionality and the culture of the modern West, with all that that entails, at least as far as I can tell.
It's definitely not to generalize, as I'm sure most of them are cool. But of all the pseudo-intellectuals I know who spout this nonsense, e.g. Edward Said, Joseph Massad and a host of others, they're invariably members of the same group, even though they are older (though not Lebanese of course).
I am not sure what it is.
My cousin married into a Coptic family (very nice, and they knew each other since we were all in diapers, one of those childhood romances that worked), and while they're quite dark-skinned, they're definitely not "black".