Just something I’ve seen a lot of lately.

Chud relative once complained to me that “the far left” used AI to “Prove Yasuke was a black samurai and it was hilariously bad. They’re trying to rewrite history to make it woke.”

Fucking weird projection from the right.

  • Horse {they/them}@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    8 days ago

    lol, a “retainer” in feudal japan usually was a samurai, with Yasuke being a samurai retainer to Oda Nobunaga, one of the most famous and important feudal lords of the era

    literally as nonsensical as “he wasn’t a knight, he was just a landless member of the nobility that served his lord in a combat role and was anointed”

    • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      7·
      7 days ago

      Honestly regardless of his role, who cares how he’s depicted in fictional media? Was Abraham Lincoln an actual vampire hunter? No, but I still enjoyed the movie. They didn’t depict the Spartans as being into little boys (and yet they did bring up that the Greeks were, so why the selectivity?), and they also depicted the Persians who were far more technologically advanced in a very bizarre and obviously historically inaccurate fashion; Of course when you bring this up they’ll cry ‘artistic liberties’, which they won’t tolerate any of with Yasuke.

      Also the last samurai, shogun and Ronin, all movies with white main characters in a Japanese setting, and not a peep from these people.