Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Adam H. Kerman" Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Medium: Not Enough Black People in SHOGUN Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 18:24:59 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: <1606819505.734744737.145729.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <20240415142040.00007dd6@example.com> Injection-Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 20:24:59 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="03f119fff5b223a5da5a167c4d47e774"; logging-data="465254"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19I0SRrgNRI8v6Zw5E37zovD4R8B4iQC+o=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:SG4lcVKQCz3hXOMeM0EwaxNQugY= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 3042 Rhino wrote: >On Sat, 13 Apr 2024 16:49:23 -0700 >anim8rfsk wrote: > >> The Horny Goat wrote: >> > On Fri, 12 Apr 2024 20:24:57 -0700, anim8rfsk >> > wrote: >> > >> >>> Do they not understand one of the key tenets of science is to >> >>> discover the truth of how things work and what goes into it. >> >>> Starting off with a black woman in a Santa Claus beard pretending >> >>> to be da Vinci doesn't sound like any sort of truth I'm aware of. >> >>> >> >> >> >> Well, it gets their pictures in the paper. I haven’t been back >> >> since they pulled that little stunt not even when they had the >> >> traveling Star Trek exhibit. >> >> >> > Strange - I always thought one of the main reasons for the Klingons >> > in Star Trek was to ensure black actors always got lots of work - >> > and in later shows beyond TOS enough of the Klingons were 'good >> > guys' that the 1960s / 70s ancestors of the current DIE crowd were >> > happy. >> >> No. That’s a lie told by total retard Michael Dorn (Worf) who says >> that the reason for Klingons is so they could hire black actors with >> nobody knowing. Klingons had been being played by non-black actors >> for decades, before somebody hired Dorn. >> >Correct! Having recently rewatched nearly every episode of ST:TOS >recently - I skipped the really awful ones - it's blindingly >obvious that every one of the people playing the Klingon commanders >(and every lesser Klingon that I can recall too) was white. Black actors is cultural appropriation, same as white actors, as they are supposed to be Mongolians. >Now, there *might* be some truth to the idea that later Star Treks used >more black actors as Klingons so that they could increase their count >of black actors; I really couldn't say about that. If the actor is wearing a mask or extensive face makeup, what does his skin color have to do with anything? You don't know what it is.