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From: FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Medium: Not Enough Black People in SHOGUN
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 09:07:06 -0400
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On 4/18/24 12:33 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> 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.
> 

No one?  New rules?
So I don't get to say anything because I agree with you?

You just buy Usenet, did you?

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