Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: FPP Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Medium: Not Enough Black People in SHOGUN Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 12:08:36 -0400 Organization: Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh Wgah'nagl Fhtagn. Lines: 70 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: fredp1571@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 18:08:37 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="ba31c705bf7defc4a112340eb2476fbd"; logging-data="2470800"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18C3/pA3gOq8Z4dtO9iyS61" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:en6Khhi1cPlQLCt+ld9/JXISCSA= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 4214 On 4/17/24 2:46 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > In article , FPP > wrote: > >> On 4/16/24 3:14 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>> In article , FPP >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On 4/12/24 3:33 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > >>>>> Apparently a show about feudal Japan isn't diverse enough even though it >>>>> has hardly any white people-- 'not white' being the usual definition of >>>>> 'diversity' in Hollywood. >>>>> >>>>> Now it seems that the definition of 'diversity' is morphing yet again and >>>>> it now doesn't matter how many other minorities are in your show, you >>>>> still have to have a quota of black people regardless of whether their >>>>> presence makes any damn sense or not. >>>>> >>>>> https://medium.com/afrosapiophile/where-are-the-black-people-in-shogun-71f >>>>> c1be70ab0 >>> >>>> Guess we need another history lesson. Yes, there were black people >>>> living in Japan in 1600 (and before). We don't see them in SHOGUN for >>>> two reasons. >>>> >>>> 1) They were, statistically insignificant in number. >>>> 2) SHOGUN is based on real historical figures and events that took place >>>> in Osaka on the Island of Honshu. >>> >>> So bitching about no black people in SHOGUN is stupid, like I said. >>> >>> You're so obsessed with refuting everything I say that you no longer >>> even notice when you're agreeing with me. >> >> I didn't "refute" anything. I explained to you exactly why you won't >> see any black people in SHOGUN. > > Did you have a stroke and somehow think I was the author of the Medium > article that was complaining about no blacks in SHOGUN? > > If not, I can't imagine why you thought I needed an amateur historian > lecture on Japanese history. > Well, let's see who posted the original thread, shall we? > On 4/12/24 3:33 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >> Apparently a show about feudal Japan isn't diverse enough even though it >> has hardly any white people-- 'not white' being the usual definition of >> 'diversity' in Hollywood. >> >> Now it seems that the definition of 'diversity' is morphing yet again and >> it now doesn't matter how many other minorities are in your show, you still >> have to have a quota of black people regardless of whether their presence >> makes any damn sense or not. >> >> https://medium.com/afrosapiophile/where-are-the-black-people-in-shogun-71fc1be70ab0 >> Well, well, well... lookey there! You started the thread... so who the fuck am I supposed to reply to, dimwit? -- "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man’s mind." - OC Bible 25B.G. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ek8kap93bmk0q5w/D%20U%20N%20E%20Part%20II.jpg?dl=0 Gracie, age 6. https://www.dropbox.com/s/0es3xolxka455iw/BetterThingsToDo.jpg?dl=0