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
But the... qin emperor... did not???
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The article in question makes this whole argument about how even though Qin Shi Huang was no leftist, his authoritarian state was in fact a necessary progression in the dialectic of history as preached by Marx, to move forward from feudalism into a more liberated era
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and
The whole thing is that Western scholars puzzled by why they'd bother saying this concluded this was, essentially, them being Very Online They knew that the Cultural Revolution was driving a lot of dissidents to say shit like "Mao is acting like the First Emperor"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and
And they decided to directly lean into that "So what if he is? What's so bad about Qin Shi Huang? Sometimes history calls for a God-King At least Qin CHANGED something about the world"
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