Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 16:26:12 +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: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 09:33:53 -0700 Message-ID: Lines: 57 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-38mDIKaEnzUvv+jZHqJkra2EDv2Gd2EMSLGV/lPxCZJhGfAwnc6FneAjA6FJAdDvVcFlwcOZQBat+zq!0jQEGB3vOjZfcyGi+x0NiI7qki5j+wD6d27a8b42qFyPniRTmU4oJilcerVrLaaO0kpSKoFQfcfE!OTfLeIwKEm0H0EATcaMYz3tS9iCjtDdtr4AnbpCLZstW+g== 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: 3641 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.