Without even touching the article I'm putting an 80% bet it's a deliberate translation error mixing up another noble title so they can call the samurai's wives "samurai"
Somehow, simultaneously, women and the poor blacks have always been oppressed, but at the same time they've been half (or more) of everything that's ever happened in history.
My local art museum pulled something similar in the late 90s. They were doing a display of early Egyptian art and African art of similar designs that they claimed was older and therefore the noble Africans invented art first a the Egyptians copied it.
Except we’re not talking about techniques or any fancy designs or styles. It was “Look! The Africans made dolls and several hundred years later Egypt made dolls too - so the Egyptians learned it from the Africans!” And aside from the fact that the dolls had 2 legs and 2 arms and a head, that’s where the similarity ended. I was outright mocking the assumption to friends, pointing out that 2 inventors, continents apart, could easily have had the same ideas about dolls at the same time, like children drawing stick figures. Same with the pottery - look they both had plates with colored squares painted on them but the African one is older so it must’ve come from there!
They’ll twist history into a gordion knot to get their narrative.
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Without even touching the article I'm putting an 80% bet it's a deliberate translation error mixing up another noble title so they can call the samurai's wives "samurai"
They are saying Samurai became an elite bureaucratic class and women performed certain duties in the bureaucracy
So stupid semantics games like always
The comments are having none of this bullshit:
I bet they're going to claim that half of them were black, too.
Half were black, half were women, and they both teamed up to protect Japan from White People.
I wuz a samurai and sheet
It's an interesting contradiction for them.
Somehow, simultaneously, women and the poor blacks have always been oppressed, but at the same time they've been half (or more) of everything that's ever happened in history.
My local art museum pulled something similar in the late 90s. They were doing a display of early Egyptian art and African art of similar designs that they claimed was older and therefore the noble Africans invented art first a the Egyptians copied it.
Except we’re not talking about techniques or any fancy designs or styles. It was “Look! The Africans made dolls and several hundred years later Egypt made dolls too - so the Egyptians learned it from the Africans!” And aside from the fact that the dolls had 2 legs and 2 arms and a head, that’s where the similarity ended. I was outright mocking the assumption to friends, pointing out that 2 inventors, continents apart, could easily have had the same ideas about dolls at the same time, like children drawing stick figures. Same with the pottery - look they both had plates with colored squares painted on them but the African one is older so it must’ve come from there!
They’ll twist history into a gordion knot to get their narrative.
Two humans made dolls that look like humans. What a shock.
if there were even one i'd be surprised
real life is not a fantasy anime
Not one of these people have ever felt what it's like to get hit by a man who knows how to throw a punch. It dispels the illusion so thoroughly.
Sounds like a porno