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Fictional alien time travellers can’t be black, insist morons (newsthump.com)
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[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago

I don't know anything about this either, but yes, It would be, as this seems to be an actual historical Japanese person who existed and was from Africa. Sure, Japan is pretty culturally homogeneous, but not totally. If they're upset about their actual history then they have a fucking issue. It's one character.