Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: shawn Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Medium: Not Enough Black People in SHOGUN Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 22:04:39 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: <20240412175429.000005c9@example.com> <2011618079.734663562.950518.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 04:04:40 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="446a2908f295b8dca0abda409129f3fc"; logging-data="2935566"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+sSmHJlqOe9NlxH0j54YtAB0/Rdba7GDQ=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ew+aM4YbgXk7Imj85DCuRZqsMFI= Bytes: 2860 On Fri, 12 Apr 2024 18:22:22 -0700, anim8rfsk wrote: >shawn wrote: >> On Fri, 12 Apr 2024 17:54:29 -0400, Rhino >> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 12 Apr 2024 19:33:34 +0000 >>> 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 >>>> >>>> >>> I can hardly wait until the next time they make a series about the >>> Revolutionary War and find themselves creating black leaders among the >>> revolutionaries to write the Constitution, lead the Army, etc. etc. >>> just to placate the DIE crowd.... >> >> I'm waiting to find out General Robert E Lee was actually a black man. >> > >Our Arizona science museum actually has the mission statement to teach >children that science was not done by white men and so they have a black >woman in a Santa Claus beard, greeting people as Leonardo da Vinci 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.