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Dudebusters posted...

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the situation

Is it that somebody overstated how much Japan had African slaves or something, and somebody tried to co-opt it into something about Yasuke and Assassins Creed because social media?

Its hard to keep up with since every time there's a new issue on this situation, so someone here can correct me if I'm wrong:

- Yosuke becomes AC MC
- Outcry because people wanted a Japanese Male character.
- debate about his significance in history and him being a "Samurai"
- Ubisoft quotes Thomas Lockley as an expert.
- Thomas fabricated a lot of stuff by even changing Wikipedia entries under an alt account to support his books.
- some of it being Yosuke a Samurai, but that's not the main part here.
- the main part was him claiming Japan had black Slaves? And it was common place (correct me if I'm wrong)

That last part is what really riled up some of the Japanese media and a politician.