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Subject: Re: Medium: Not Enough Black People in SHOGUN
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 22:38:31 -0400
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On Fri, 12 Apr 2024 22:04:39 -0400
shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Apr 2024 18:22:22 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
> wrote:
> 
> >shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:  
> >> On Fri, 12 Apr 2024 17:54:29 -0400, Rhino
> >> <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
> >>   
> >>> On Fri, 12 Apr 2024 19:33:34 +0000
> >>> BTR1701 <no_email@invalid.invalid> 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.

You must be using "truth" in the old sense of "objective truth", i.e.
truth that can be determined by - and agreed to - by objective
observers.

Don't you know that this truth has been superseded by "individual
truth", namely the perceptions or even desires of an individual which
may not be verifiable by objective observers? That's the kind of
new-fangled truth we hear about in expressions like "lived truth" which
is apparently where if you are black, you can claim to have been the
victim of racism throughout your life and even if your closest friends
and family members who know better say this is false, "your truth"
trumps theirs. And if your truth is that black people did all the
important science ever and white people did none of it, well that too
trumps all other claims about science anyone else could make. 

-- 
Rhino