Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!news.mixmin.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: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 09:07:06 -0400 Organization: Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh Wgah'nagl Fhtagn. Lines: 72 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: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 15:07:07 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c5f2fe20dbbc7623edde313dddac98b8"; logging-data="3171773"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18phBM4Ja624g6LTmU1OMqN" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:qwVr6zjv6ok7NQgT37BmE2s+0Ow= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 4335 On 4/18/24 12:33 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > In article , FPP > wrote: > >> 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-7 >>>>>>> 1fc1be70ab0 >>>>> >>>>>> 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? > >> Well, well, well... lookey there! You started the thread... so who the >> fuck am I supposed to reply to, dimwit? > > No one, since I AGREED that there wouldn't be any black people in > SHOGUN. It's the blacktivist author of the Medium article that I cited > and which I was CRITICIZING who said otherwise. > > Jeezus, this is shit a 2-year-old can comprehend. > No one? New rules? So I don't get to say anything because I agree with you? You just buy Usenet, did you? -- "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