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Critic Complains That Show Set in 1500s Japan Didn't Have Any Black Characters
Western Journal ^ | 3/15/23 | Michael Austin

Posted on 03/15/2024 10:56:46 AM PDT by Impala64ssa

The reviews for Disney-owned FX’s new hit miniseries “Shōgun” have been absolutely glowing.

That is, apart from one notable exception.

The series, based on a 1975 novel by James Clavell, follows the story of an English explorer in the 1500s who finds himself smack-dab in the middle of an intense political conflict unfolding in the Japanese empire.

Though many seem to be enjoying the show, one critic — writer William Spivey — felt it was failing for one major reason: There is no black representation.

The article, which originated as a blog on Medium, has received some seriously harsh criticism, to say the least.

The general public appears to be getting sick of diversity and inclusion being placed above accurate historical storytelling.

(Excerpt) Read more at westernjournal.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Japan
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; jamesclavell; japan; shogun; thatsracist; williamspivey
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To: pfflier

I think if you go to the home islands of Japan now, you will find minorities are under represented across the board.
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And if I was a native Japanese citizen living there I’d be praying night and day that the minorities already there get deported tout suite.


21 posted on 03/15/2024 11:26:32 AM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Biden left our troops to die in Afghanistan and our military equipment to our enemy. Never forget.)
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To: No name given

Some people need a perpetual grievance.......just seems to be the same ethnicity most of the time.


22 posted on 03/15/2024 11:27:40 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: OttawaFreeper

GLAD I GOT MY EARLY EDUCATION IN A ONE ROOM SCHOOL


23 posted on 03/15/2024 11:28:28 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: PGR88

This 21st century Neo-Marxism, based in DC, NY and LA is a cancer on the world
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BINGO! A more factual statement has never been posted on this board!


24 posted on 03/15/2024 11:32:51 AM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Biden left our troops to die in Afghanistan and our military equipment to our enemy. Never forget.)
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To: pfflier

Apparently Japan realized some time ago what is bad for their country and kept it hat way.


25 posted on 03/15/2024 11:33:36 AM PDT by Saintgermain
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To: No name given

In fact, the whole failed ideology of Karl Marx and Frederich Engels is satanic and unholy. It needs to be sent back to hell where it belongs.
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Unnecessary to send it back because the spread of that evil ideology is now turning planet Earth itself into a living hell!


26 posted on 03/15/2024 11:37:14 AM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Biden left our troops to die in Afghanistan and our military equipment to our enemy. Never forget.)
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To: V_TWIN

That’s because after having occupied a CONTINENT with almost UNLIMITED RESOURCES for thousands of years, they (exclusive of the Egyptians) never even managed to invent the wheel.

Never invented any technology (even on a primitive level), lived in mud/animal shit huts at the best, and sold their fellow tribesmen into Arab/European slavery for glass beads and other such trinkets.

Says a lot for the DARK CONTINENT doesn’t it!


27 posted on 03/15/2024 12:01:32 PM PDT by 5th MEB (1)
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To: Impala64ssa

“...feel better if the story were renamed SHO ‘NUFF?”

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Best laugh of the day!


28 posted on 03/15/2024 12:07:28 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Impala64ssa

I wonder how long the writer searched, hoping and praying that he could find one person holding this ridiculous opinion before writing an article pretending to be shocked that he found one person holding this ridiculous opinion.

If there are 350 million people in the country, we can assume that at least 10 of them are insane, so how about we stop searching for one ridiculous example, which is what the left does to us.


29 posted on 03/15/2024 12:10:07 PM PDT by edwinland
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

“...you will find minorities are under represented across the board...”

That’s why they’re ***minorities***, I guess.


30 posted on 03/15/2024 12:10:14 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: READINABLUESTATE

One of the major premises was Portugal was attempting to prevent trade between Japan and other nations.


31 posted on 03/15/2024 12:12:51 PM PDT by mware
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To: Impala64ssa

so lucky 1500s Japan then.


32 posted on 03/15/2024 12:19:37 PM PDT by ronniesgal (have you even tried to mind your own business?)
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To: Impala64ssa
Has anyone else noticed that all the BBC period dramas now have Black aristocrats?

Even Downton Abbey had a suggested romantic relationship between a young white female aristocrat and a Black male, in the early 1920s.

Until the 1950s, the Black population of London was never more than 1%-3%.

In fact, from 1850 to 1950, the Black population in London probably went down to 1%, because of the end of the African slave trade, plus stricter immigration laws.

33 posted on 03/15/2024 12:21:14 PM PDT by zeestephen (Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
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To: Impala64ssa
When I first heard that criticism I laughed. Man, won't these dimwits ever stop?

I won't spoil it but the ending to episode 4 made me laugh. And I don't mean this in a cynical way, it was very very good! But for viewers who want to see Sho Nuff watch Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon!


Sho Nuff

34 posted on 03/15/2024 12:22:47 PM PDT by Enterprise
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To: OttawaFreeper

We need height challenged Samurai!


35 posted on 03/15/2024 12:23:21 PM PDT by Enterprise
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To: Impala64ssa

Didn’t they already make this show, with Richard Chamberlain?


36 posted on 03/15/2024 12:25:28 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: monkeyshine

They did already make it. It was in the early 1980’s.


37 posted on 03/15/2024 12:27:16 PM PDT by Enterprise
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To: Impala64ssa

what this moron say the same if they remade Zulu and had white people and asians mixed into the Zulu tribe?

what idiots.


38 posted on 03/15/2024 12:30:38 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: zeestephen

Nearly all scientists are black in movies now also. And usually the only happy couples presented are gay.


39 posted on 03/15/2024 12:32:05 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Impala64ssa

Nonwhite people either ?


40 posted on 03/15/2024 12:50:55 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad
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