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Subject: Re: Medium: Not Enough Black People in SHOGUN
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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-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.