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slartibartfastibast:

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slartibartfastibast:

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Pakistani King Arthur when?

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No, better yet, Robin Hood.

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No this kind of thing happened decades ago

\nYou know Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, the \u201891 Kevin Costner version? How Morgan Freeman played a black Muslim Merry Man named Azeem?\n

\nDoing legal review they had to change the name ‘cause the writer just assumed he was part of the legend but he was still a copywrited character from this 80s BBC take\n

\nBecause in setting up the Commonwealth after the fall of the Empire, the Brits had started to receive \u201cWest Indian\u201d black Caribbeaners and \u201cAsian\u201d (mostly Muslim) Desi immigrants to the home islands, and in retelling a national myth the national culture apparatus decided to incorporate a representative figure\n

\nWhich is ridiculous, there weren\u2019t Muslims faffing about the medieval forests defending the English people from corrupt nobles. But get this, the idea that \u201ctrue\u201d nobles or honest churchmen cared a shit about commoners\u2019 interests was just as ahistoric bullshit, but Robin of Locksley and Friar Tuck were there already anyway, that\u2019s how national myth works

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