Yeah Bujinkan ninjitsu is mostly a load of bullshit about pop culture concepts of what ninjas are, from what I understand, but it's also an entirely japanese organization founded in the 70s
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Replying to @Cybren @dreamingnoctis and
It's like how people in America were somewhat upset about The Last Samurai with Tom Cruise because it's "cultural appropriation" but people in Japan were VERY upset about it because it was far-right fascist propaganda
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and
And it's kind of condescending that the American filmmakers didn't realize that what they were doing was far-right fascist propaganda because they could only see it through a Western lens, "Those poor oppressed Japanese who've had their ancient cultural traditions diluted"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @dreamingnoctis and
Don't you feel bad for this class of warrior-nobility who have lost their place in a rapidly modernizing society, though?
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Replying to @Cybren @arthur_affect and
Yeah, it's kind of like if someone from another country did a sentimental film about the confederacy or something. Like Last Samurai really is a romanticized "lost cause" narrative. God, in a weird moment of anticipatory awfulness it even references effing Sparta FFS.
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Replying to @dreamingnoctis @arthur_affect and
It's like doing a movie about Qin Shi Huang saying that he was good, actually, because he unified ch...wait
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Replying to @Cybren @dreamingnoctis and
The funny thing is that's a take with a pedigree Like one of the artifacts of the Cultural Revolution that produced the most discussion among Western sinologists was this essay the government put out saying Confucius was Bad and Qin Shi Huang Good, Actually
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and
Wait why did the Maoists hate Confucianism
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @Cybren and
Well because Confucius exemplified feudal values, obviously
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
In a way the reason the article was worth talking about isn't so much that it's surprising a Maoist would hate Confucius -- he was a sexist jerk who said that social lessers should obey their betters etc. -- but that they would have so much passion for it
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And that they'd elevate Qin Shi Huang in the process It's like going out of your way as a Western Marxist to say "Cicero sucked actually" and then pick some bad guy from history to elevate -- "You know, Augustus Caesar, who killed him, was actually Woke"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
Pardon me, are you Aaron Burr, sir?
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