Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 18:38:56 +0000 From: BTR1701 Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Medium: Not Enough Black People in SHOGUN References: User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:46:40 -0700 Message-ID: Lines: 42 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-9dgE4yP0ho+aXtpBLPB9Ian8Z62E1VQDE/sljaTxvy0JeXbVxBBUTdYne1r7fjIJxCtuQll+SYawnf2!HOLTx/SeRlFBcIMe0g8qw8qXi/+jWCgZ98MJMcLP8J1khZMkauXgt0AiUo6EoBON0rqNPCLCINKm!iEM= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2832 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.