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Subject: Re: Medium: Not Enough Black People in SHOGUN
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In article <uvrgi4$2bcsg$1@dont-email.me>, FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com> 
wrote:

> On 4/17/24 2:46 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> > In article <uvogdg$1jt55$4@dont-email.me>, FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> >> On 4/16/24 3:14 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> >>> In article <uvlsre$v26u$1@dont-email.me>, FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com>
> >>> 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.