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Nanomachines son said:

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Thanks to Ubisoft, history was nearly subverted. Wikipedia edits were locked, people were banned, and money fueled the propaganda. This prompted the Japanese to investigate, and the author’s mistake of using his nickname on Wikipedia exposed him. Ubisoft: hero or villain? Lmao.

— LearningTheLaw (@Mangalawyer) July 20, 2024

Ubisoft made as Assassin's Creed game with a black "samurai" known as Yasuke. This is a person who did exist in real life but he was never a samurai and was effectively the Japanese equivalent of a court jester. This professor faked history and used his own Wikipedia edits to support it all and got caught.

The Japanese government ultimately started investigating and found this all out.

Just an incredible amount of hubris and willingness to insert Afrocentrism into everything. This is something that would have gone by without response here because we don't have anyone willing to stand up for our history in places of power anymore but the Japanese elites still have pride in their own history so they exposed this guy.

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What is the motivation of these morons, that they would risk their careers?

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Same as it ever was...

racism.

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captkirk said:

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Nanomachines son said:

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Thanks to Ubisoft, history was nearly subverted. Wikipedia edits were locked, people were banned, and money fueled the propaganda. This prompted the Japanese to investigate, and the author’s mistake of using his nickname on Wikipedia exposed him. Ubisoft: hero or villain? Lmao.

— LearningTheLaw (@Mangalawyer) July 20, 2024

Ubisoft made as Assassin's Creed game with a black "samurai" known as Yasuke. This is a person who did exist in real life but he was never a samurai and was effectively the Japanese equivalent of a court jester. This professor faked history and used his own Wikipedia edits to support it all and got caught.

The Japanese government ultimately started investigating and found this all out.

Just an incredible amount of hubris and willingness to insert Afrocentrism into everything. This is something that would have gone by without response here because we don't have anyone willing to stand up for our history in places of power anymore but the Japanese elites still have pride in their own history so they exposed this guy.

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What is the motivation of these morons, that they would risk their careers?

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Same as it ever was...

racism.

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Racism sure but more like the left has a duty to infantilize blacks. They love to be condescending for some reason with some groups.

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captkirk said:

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Nanomachines son said:

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Thanks to Ubisoft, history was nearly subverted. Wikipedia edits were locked, people were banned, and money fueled the propaganda. This prompted the Japanese to investigate, and the author’s mistake of using his nickname on Wikipedia exposed him. Ubisoft: hero or villain? Lmao.

— LearningTheLaw (@Mangalawyer) July 20, 2024

Ubisoft made as Assassin's Creed game with a black "samurai" known as Yasuke. This is a person who did exist in real life but he was never a samurai and was effectively the Japanese equivalent of a court jester. This professor faked history and used his own Wikipedia edits to support it all and got caught.

The Japanese government ultimately started investigating and found this all out.

Just an incredible amount of hubris and willingness to insert Afrocentrism into everything. This is something that would have gone by without response here because we don't have anyone willing to stand up for our history in places of power anymore but the Japanese elites still have pride in their own history so they exposed this guy.

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What is the motivation of these morons, that they would risk their careers?

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This is how they fix the world. Reality doesn't jive with their worldview, so instead of adjusting their worldview, they just lie about reality

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We are watching the media do this RIGHT NOW regarding Biden dropping out. They want it to be true so they create this facade of agreement among their useful idiots in the hopes of it actually happening

Now do Bridgerton

I don't understand how Japan was able to step in and change anything. It's a ficticious video game right? Is there a law requiring it to be historically accurate?

I am not a gamer. I have no dog in this hunt. Just curious.

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AGinHI said:

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captkirk said:

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Nanomachines son said:

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Thanks to Ubisoft, history was nearly subverted. Wikipedia edits were locked, people were banned, and money fueled the propaganda. This prompted the Japanese to investigate, and the author’s mistake of using his nickname on Wikipedia exposed him. Ubisoft: hero or villain? Lmao.

— LearningTheLaw (@Mangalawyer) July 20, 2024

Ubisoft made as Assassin's Creed game with a black "samurai" known as Yasuke. This is a person who did exist in real life but he was never a samurai and was effectively the Japanese equivalent of a court jester. This professor faked history and used his own Wikipedia edits to support it all and got caught.

The Japanese government ultimately started investigating and found this all out.

Just an incredible amount of hubris and willingness to insert Afrocentrism into everything. This is something that would have gone by without response here because we don't have anyone willing to stand up for our history in places of power anymore but the Japanese elites still have pride in their own history so they exposed this guy.

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What is the motivation of these morons, that they would risk their careers?

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Same as it ever was...

racism.

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Racism sure but more like the left has a duty to infantilize blacks. They love to be condescending for some reason with some groups.

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Because they believe they're inferior.

Like not being able to get an ID and such, as Ami Horowitz has shown.

Reason - racism.

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Damn, how bad must is suck to be black that people have to lie constantly about their history and present to make it palatable?

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Considering they never invented the wheel, pretty bad actually.

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Just off the top of my head historical people that were black according to Afrocentrists

• Japanese (and then reference "black blood" in Japanese writing as proof)
• The British in the times of the Romans
• The Egyptians
• The 12 tribes of Israel
• Some if not many vikings

And they are dead serious that its all true.

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I had a black Uber driver tell me for 30 minutes that native Americans were really black and blacks were the true owners of land in America.

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Twitter is chock full of "foundational black Americans" that essentially rewrite all of American and global history to be black people created and built everything. It's honestly insane.

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You can basically tell them anything and they will believe it. For example, Yakub is an actual thing with these types. He's a super genius god who created white people to get back at his enemies. No I am not joking, they actually believe this.

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What is really sad is that a bunch of white liberals think that Africa and its people do not have a culture or history of their own that can be discussed and praised....

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To be honest, they really don't. The Bantu genociding everyone else is the most prescient aspect of African history and it is the biggest example of general Africa, which has been almost nothing but brutality, cannibalism, human sacrifice, and worse. The historical accounts of Europeans arriving in Subsaharan Africa describe this a lot. It's probably the most common aspect of African history by far.

Reminder that this is how progressives write historical fiction https://t.co/4BMQ8CeAP8 pic.twitter.com/qr2QJ13PjW

— Carlos That Notices Things (@QuetzalPhoenix) July 20, 2024

Nanomachines son said:

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Reminder that this is how progressives write historical fiction https://t.co/4BMQ8CeAP8 pic.twitter.com/qr2QJ13PjW

— Carlos That Notices Things (@QuetzalPhoenix) July 20, 2024

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I like the "better version of the world" How sanctimonious of them, to know what a "better version" would be like. I suppose the old version was to Japanese...

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Just off the top of my head historical people that were black according to Afrocentrists

• Japanese (and then reference "black blood" in Japanese writing as proof)
• The British in the times of the Romans
• The Egyptians
• The 12 tribes of Israel
• Some if not many vikings

And they are dead serious that its all true.

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Don't forget Jesus!




*beat me to it.

Dr. Mephisto said:

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Madman said:

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Just off the top of my head historical people that were black according to Afrocentrists

• Japanese (and then reference "black blood" in Japanese writing as proof)
• The British in the times of the Romans
• The Egyptians
• The 12 tribes of Israel
• Some if not many vikings

And they are dead serious that its all true.

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Don't forget Jesus!

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Well duh.

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Sounds like when the government of Egypt sued Netflix over trying to make Cleopatra a subsaharan black woman instead of the Greek woman she was.

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It was some random Egyptian lawyer and the "legal advisor" for the Culture Minister who separately sued Netflix by submitting a complaints with the public prosecutor, which takes some some squinting to construe as the government of Egypt itself.

https://www.newsweek.com/netflix-sued-depicting-cleopatra-black-1795681

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An Egyptian lawyer on Sunday filed a lawsuit over Netflix's upcoming Queen Cleopatra, accusing the streaming service of "erasing the Egyptian identity" for depicting the ruler as a Black woman.

Mahmoud al-Semary submitted the legal complaint with Egypt's public prosecutor following the recent release of a trailer for the docudrama series, which premieres May 10. His filing not only requested legal action be taken against the makers of the show but for Netflix to be shut down in Egypt. . .

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https://www.egyptindependent.com/another-lawsuit-filed-against-netflixs-controversial-film-queen-cleopatra/

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. . . Legal adviser and attorney of the Culture Minister, Essam Khalaf, submitted a complaint with the Public Prosecution against the Netflix platform in Egypt for committing several violations due to the release of the documentary film "Queen Cleopatra."

Khalaf demanded that the movie be canceled from the Netflix platform and permanently prevented from being shown. . . .

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This one recalls Devin Nunes haplessly suing Twitter over his mouthy bovine bete noire.

Man, if we can't expect our video games to be historically accurate, who can we trust??

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Man, if we can't expect our video games to be historically accurate, who can we trust??

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Lol

What's Japan's next target? They gonna try to tell us a 5'5" Tom Cruise looking mofo wasn't a badass samurai?

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What's Japan's next target? They gonna try to tell us a 5'5" Tom Cruise looking mofo wasn't a badass samurai?

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It's ridiculous. But i also really like the movie as well.

Want something a bit closer, watch Shogun on FX (thought they take some big liberties with Blackthorn as well).

This will become a Netflix series.

Well you know, it worked for Hamilton.

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What's Japan's next target? They gonna try to tell us a 5'5" Tom Cruise looking mofo wasn't a badass samurai?

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After we left Hawaii where I watched all the book stores I would frequent permanently close, I didn't know they still existed and hadn't stepped in one for 7 years until I walked into a Barnes and Noble one year ago. As someone who likes a physical book, it was heaven.

And in the history section I have seen this book African Samurai The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan, by Thomas Lockley. While I have never bothered to pick it up, the book has always caught my eye, because I was skeptical and wondered if it wasn't more a product of our current cultural climate than truth.

And lo and behold today I see this thread.

The "true" story of Yasuke, which influenced Assassin's Creed, and apparently a bunch of historians, authors, entertainers, and others (see below), is not a video game, or some Hollywood movie. It is lies presented as a history book, lapped up by the credulous.

And cut from the same cloth as the 1619 Project and media like this




In the recent May 2024 Forbes article challenging conservative critics, "Upcoming 'Assassin's Creed' Game Attacked As 'Woke' Over Black Samurai ProtagonistBut It's Based On A Real Black Warrior," the author writes:

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Yasuke is a real historical figure thought of by historians as the "first Black samurai."

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And when you click on the plural historians you are redirected to the Smithsonian article (Jan. 2023), "Who Was Yasuke, Japan's First Black Samurai?" where we learn that "historians" means one Thomas Lockley who is referenced throughout.

An Oxford historian offers a brief comment and two other authors are referenced, including one Kurusu Yushio from 1968. Celebrities Chadwick Boseman and LaKeith Stanfield are also mentioned as though their status gives credence to the Yasuke myth, and Oshiko Okuyama, an expert on Japanese studies at the University of Hawaii at Hilo is thrown in for good measure.

Okuyama does state, "Although ['Yasuke'] is a fantasy, the story is drawn from a documented history about a real-life dark-skinned samurai in 16th-century Japan, which not so many Japanese themselves knew."

But apparently it was all a fabrication.

It's as though one person created a lie, and the easily led true believers ran with it creating layers of fiction.

Bluto said:

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I don't understand how Japan was able to step in and change anything. It's a ficticious video game right? Is there a law requiring it to be historically accurate?

I am not a gamer. I have no dog in this hunt. Just curious.

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The issue here is that this particular series is what you would call the video game equivalent of historical fiction. You normally play a fictional character set in a real historical backdrop and you will interact with real historical figures throughout these games.

However, Ubisoft is known for injecting DEI crap into this particular series. Each game in this series has a screen before the game starts that tells you these games were made by a diverse team with multiple genders. Tells you right there they are going to be fast and loose with history.

This game in particular got more pub than usual because Ubisoft has been marketing this game as the first in the series where you get to play a real, historical figure. And, thus, the hilarity here is that the first time they let the player be a real historical figure they go with a black (of course) samurai and then lie about his history after promoting the hell out of this game that Japan had a real black samurai. They have promotion videos showing documentation of this trying to base all of this in historical fact....and it's not.

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unmade bed said:

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What's Japan's next target? They gonna try to tell us a 5'5" Tom Cruise looking mofo wasn't a badass samurai?

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After we left Hawaii where I watched all the book stores I would frequent permanently close, I didn't know they still existed and hadn't stepped in one for 7 years until I walked into a Barnes and Noble one year ago. As someone who likes a physical book, it was heaven.

And in the history section I have seen this book African Samurai The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan, by Thomas Lockley. While I have never bothered to pick it up, the book has always caught my eye, because I was skeptical and wondered if it wasn't more a product of our current cultural climate than truth.

And lo and behold today I see this thread.

The "true" story of Yasuke, which influenced Assassin's Creed, and apparently a bunch of historians, authors, entertainers, and others (see below), is not a video game, or some Hollywood movie. It is lies presented as a history book, lapped up by the credulous.

And cut from the same cloth as the 1619 Project and media like this




In the recent May 2024 Forbes article challenging conservative critics, "Upcoming 'Assassin's Creed' Game Attacked As 'Woke' Over Black Samurai ProtagonistBut It's Based On A Real Black Warrior," the author writes:

Quote:

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Yasuke is a real historical figure thought of by historians as the "first Black samurai."

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And when you click on the plural historians you are redirected to the Smithsonian article (Jan. 2023), "Who Was Yasuke, Japan's First Black Samurai?" where we learn that "historians" means one Thomas Lockley who is referenced throughout.

An Oxford historian offers a brief comment and two other authors are referenced, including one Kurusu Yushio from 1968. Celebrities Chadwick Boseman and LaKeith Stanfield are also mentioned as though their status gives credence to the Yasuke story, and Oshiko Okuyama, an expert on Japanese studies at the University of Hawaii at Hilo is thrown in for good measure.

Okuyama does state, "Although ['Yasuke'] is a fantasy, the story is drawn from a documented history about a real-life dark-skinned samurai in 16th-century Japan, which not so many Japanese themselves knew."

But apparently it was all a fabrication.

It's as though one person created a lie, and the easily led true believers ran with it creating layers of fiction.

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Thanks for sharing.

"Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past."
George Orwell

Nanomachines son said:

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Thanks to Ubisoft, history was nearly subverted. Wikipedia edits were locked, people were banned, and money fueled the propaganda. This prompted the Japanese to investigate, and the author’s mistake of using his nickname on Wikipedia exposed him. Ubisoft: hero or villain? Lmao.

— LearningTheLaw (@Mangalawyer) July 20, 2024

Ubisoft made as Assassin's Creed game with a black "samurai" known as Yasuke. This is a person who did exist in real life but he was never a samurai and was effectively the Japanese equivalent of a court jester. This professor faked history and used his own Wikipedia edits to support it all and got caught.

The Japanese government ultimately started investigating and found this all out.

Just an incredible amount of hubris and willingness to insert Afrocentrism into everything. This is something that would have gone by without response here because we don't have anyone willing to stand up for our history in places of power anymore but the Japanese elites still have pride in their own history so they exposed this guy.

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Consider me a video game noob. Did this guy fake a history in a video game or fake history for a course he was teaching?


If the former: who cares, it's a video game.

If the latter: bummer, Ted.

captkirk said:

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Nanomachines son said:

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Thanks to Ubisoft, history was nearly subverted. Wikipedia edits were locked, people were banned, and money fueled the propaganda. This prompted the Japanese to investigate, and the author’s mistake of using his nickname on Wikipedia exposed him. Ubisoft: hero or villain? Lmao.

— LearningTheLaw (@Mangalawyer) July 20, 2024

Ubisoft made as Assassin's Creed game with a black "samurai" known as Yasuke. This is a person who did exist in real life but he was never a samurai and was effectively the Japanese equivalent of a court jester. This professor faked history and used his own Wikipedia edits to support it all and got caught.

The Japanese government ultimately started investigating and found this all out.

Just an incredible amount of hubris and willingness to insert Afrocentrism into everything. This is something that would have gone by without response here because we don't have anyone willing to stand up for our history in places of power anymore but the Japanese elites still have pride in their own history so they exposed this guy.

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What is the motivation of these morons, that they would risk their careers?

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Thirty years ago, the real scholars tried to push back but they got steamrolled by the Marxists that they had thought were their friends.

Not Out Of Africa: How ""Afrocentrism"" Became An Excuse To Teach Myth As History https://a.co/d/hzBtlhd

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Nanomachines son said:

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Thanks to Ubisoft, history was nearly subverted. Wikipedia edits were locked, people were banned, and money fueled the propaganda. This prompted the Japanese to investigate, and the author’s mistake of using his nickname on Wikipedia exposed him. Ubisoft: hero or villain? Lmao.

— LearningTheLaw (@Mangalawyer) July 20, 2024

Ubisoft made as Assassin's Creed game with a black "samurai" known as Yasuke. This is a person who did exist in real life but he was never a samurai and was effectively the Japanese equivalent of a court jester. This professor faked history and used his own Wikipedia edits to support it all and got caught.

The Japanese government ultimately started investigating and found this all out.

Just an incredible amount of hubris and willingness to insert Afrocentrism into everything. This is something that would have gone by without response here because we don't have anyone willing to stand up for our history in places of power anymore but the Japanese elites still have pride in their own history so they exposed this guy.

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Consider me a video game noob. Did this guy fake a history in a video game or fake history for a course he was teaching?


If the former: who cares, it's a video game.

If the latter: bummer, Ted.

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I care only because video games are the primary means of entertainment consumption by the younger generations. If a game maker is going to promote their game as being historically accurate (which they went out of their way to do here), then they should be held accountable.

If they had simply made a black man a samurai with the usual Hollywood qualifier that "This is entertainment and all characters are fictional" then I agree with you.

They tried to change history here though and I think that should be fought whenever or wherever it's found.

bUt hAmIlToN Is sO BrAvE AnD DiVeRsE AnD ThE TuNeS ArE ThE BeSt!

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Just off the top of my head historical people that were black according to Afrocentrists

• Japanese (and then reference "black blood" in Japanese writing as proof)
• The British in the times of the Romans
• The Egyptians
• The 12 tribes of Israel
• Some if not many vikings

And they are dead serious that its all true.

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i am honestly curious as to what benefit there is to white liberals to insert black ethnicity into history accounts - there has to be a money trail there somewhere but i can't find nor understand it.

It's the intangible joy they get from performing the rite of racial self-abasement.basement. It's a type of "cultural cvkkolding." It seems crazy to me, but Michael Moore seems to find it exhilarating.

Ulysses90 said:

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It's the intangible joy they get from performing the rite of racial self-abasement.basement. It's a type of "cultural cvkkolding." It seems crazy to me, but Michael Moore seems to find it exhilarating.

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That is a very interesting idea. One that makes a lot of sense.

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BassCowboy33 said:

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Nanomachines son said:

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Thanks to Ubisoft, history was nearly subverted. Wikipedia edits were locked, people were banned, and money fueled the propaganda. This prompted the Japanese to investigate, and the author’s mistake of using his nickname on Wikipedia exposed him. Ubisoft: hero or villain? Lmao.

— LearningTheLaw (@Mangalawyer) July 20, 2024

Ubisoft made as Assassin's Creed game with a black "samurai" known as Yasuke. This is a person who did exist in real life but he was never a samurai and was effectively the Japanese equivalent of a court jester. This professor faked history and used his own Wikipedia edits to support it all and got caught.

The Japanese government ultimately started investigating and found this all out.

Just an incredible amount of hubris and willingness to insert Afrocentrism into everything. This is something that would have gone by without response here because we don't have anyone willing to stand up for our history in places of power anymore but the Japanese elites still have pride in their own history so they exposed this guy.

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Consider me a video game noob. Did this guy fake a history in a video game or fake history for a course he was teaching?


If the former: who cares, it's a video game.

If the latter: bummer, Ted.

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I care only because video games are the primary means of entertainment consumption by the younger generations. If a game maker is going to promote their game as being historically accurate (which they went out of their way to do here), then they should be held accountable.

If they had simply made a black man a samurai with the usual Hollywood qualifier that "This is entertainment and all characters are fictional" then I agree with you.

They tried to change history here though and I think that should be fought whenever or wherever it's found.

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Interesting, but still doesn't answer the question for those of us not versed in video game culture.

You really want to see something funny pull up an episode of Bridgerton on Netflix.

BassCowboy33 said:

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YouBet said:

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BassCowboy33 said:

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Nanomachines son said:

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Thanks to Ubisoft, history was nearly subverted. Wikipedia edits were locked, people were banned, and money fueled the propaganda. This prompted the Japanese to investigate, and the author’s mistake of using his nickname on Wikipedia exposed him. Ubisoft: hero or villain? Lmao.

— LearningTheLaw (@Mangalawyer) July 20, 2024

Ubisoft made as Assassin's Creed game with a black "samurai" known as Yasuke. This is a person who did exist in real life but he was never a samurai and was effectively the Japanese equivalent of a court jester. This professor faked history and used his own Wikipedia edits to support it all and got caught.

The Japanese government ultimately started investigating and found this all out.

Just an incredible amount of hubris and willingness to insert Afrocentrism into everything. This is something that would have gone by without response here because we don't have anyone willing to stand up for our history in places of power anymore but the Japanese elites still have pride in their own history so they exposed this guy.

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Consider me a video game noob. Did this guy fake a history in a video game or fake history for a course he was teaching?


If the former: who cares, it's a video game.

If the latter: bummer, Ted.

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I care only because video games are the primary means of entertainment consumption by the younger generations. If a game maker is going to promote their game as being historically accurate (which they went out of their way to do here), then they should be held accountable.

If they had simply made a black man a samurai with the usual Hollywood qualifier that "This is entertainment and all characters are fictional" then I agree with you.

They tried to change history here though and I think that should be fought whenever or wherever it's found.

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Interesting, but still doesn't answer the question for those of us not versed in video game culture.

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I don't know the answer to the question on if he was responsible for faking a history course or the game or both.

All I know is Ubisoft is a left wing video game company that pushed a lie as historical fact because it played into their racist culture of DEI and virtue signaling. And they got called to account.

So this is a small win for truth in a media channel that heavily influences our youth.