A lot of it is outrage baiting. There are so many choices for entertainment out there, you need to do something to get noticed, and negative attention is better than no attention at all. Generating bullshit outrage and astroturfed controversy is how you get the Internet to pay attention to your otherwise mediocre product. The alternative is that you don't get noticed at all and nobody buys your product. Also see here.
It's really pathetic that these people can't relate to or understand these conflicts unless they're filtered through the lens of pop culture.
It is all contextual. If you are making a game where you play as Yasuke, he will be black. If you make a quarter of the population of feudal Japan black, then it’s pushing the Message.
Yeah, he wasn’t the norm, that’s why he stands out. It is why people know about him.
He also didn't do anything except fight some people in a house for an undetermined amount of time and then get sold back into slavery. Anyone making a game about him is bound to be pushing an agenda that he was somehow important or notable beyond just being an African in Japan for all of two years. There's no other discernable reason to focus on him in any media.
>Starks and Stannis on opposite sides despite Ned actively supporting Stannis's claim to the throne and Stannis and Robb never openly coming to battle.
I think you could do a lot with his character in the hands of a good team. Yasuke is a fish out of water and so has to learn about the strange foreign land he lives in. The fact that we have little information about his life could be useful in developing a story that shows his progression.
He served Nobunaga as a sword bearer and was largely considered Nobunaga's pet to the point that when he surrendered following Nobunaga's death, he wasn't even considered human by the Japanese. Any idea of a story about loyalty and betrayal, etc. has to ignore the fact that he was in Nobunaga's service for all of a year and did very little of note in that time.
Portraying him as "normal" would be if none of the Japanese characters ever mentioned or referred to him being an unusual sight in Meiji-era Japan. That's what people are complaining about.
It's one of those things I miss in current year, along with the "woman warrior in a world where that's not a common thing" trope.
That’s been a thing for so long and the only way they can digest and process what’s going on in the world. They can’t grasp reality because their minds have been warped by years and years of propaganda laced media consumerism.
This is because people don’t want to think about how a black Person would stick out in a homogenized nonblack society. They don’t want to think about the adversity and struggles such a person would have to deal with because much like with companies like WotC, they get the majority of their understanding of foreign cultures and history from Disney and marvel.
Actually it seems that if there's only a handful of "different" people in a country the position seems to be one of amused tolerance and acceptance or at least this is what I've gathered from the historical travelogues I've read a prominent example is this one: