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Why are people so butthurt over a black mermaid?

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  • MrOracle
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    The story of the Little Mermaid is based on a Hans Christian Anderson story, as are several other Disney movies. The character is a reflection of Scandinavian culture where it came from (HCA was Danish), and the likelihood of a brown or black person in the North Sea in the 18th century are close enough to zero that there's little point in calculating it.

    The 30 year old cartoon image of Ariel is quite accurate to the original story, and certainly makes sense given the Nordic foundation of the tale.

    Let's be completely upfront here: Disney specifically cast a black girl in this role specifically for woke points. White girls were not considered, even though the Disney character was a white ginger for 30 years, as was the character she was based on for 200 years. That's literally racism.

    And let's also be upfront and say that if they race-swapped the lead in Black Panther with a Mexican or a Korean, these same people defending black Ariel would be losing their minds.

    It's also not like this was an unusual circumstance. Disney and most of Hollywood has been race- and gender- and orientation-swapping existing characters for remakes for the last 5 years and people are sick of it.

    No one has a problem with black actors. No one has a problem with black characters. I'm pretty certain I own every movie that Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, and Samuel L. Jackson have ever made. At least 2/3 of my comedy collection are black comedians.

    What people have a problem with is race or gender - swapping EXISTING characters, especially when their looks are an important aspect of the role.

    Perhaps the worst example of this was making a movie about Anne Boleyn, an English queen that was unquestionably white, and casting a black actress to play her. This is a historical figure! Imagine a movie about Martin Luther King, or Aretha Franklin, cast with white actors!

    Disney could have created a new story, and cast whoever, and it would have been fine, but the point of wokeness is to destroy things that we used to love by poisoning them with unwanted changes - and ALWAYS in the anti-white direction - and trying to convince people to accept their forced anti-white changes.

    Finally, the thing few people realize is that, as much as the Woke Warriors try to talk about People Of Color, they are really just as racist against Latinos and Asians. All race-swaps are putting in black characters in place of white characters, never putting in an Asian or Latino.

    There's nothing honest about it. It's propaganda, and it's evil. It's also lazy - they think putting in a black actor for a white one means that they don't need to bother making anything else about the project good. Bad writing, bad costuming, bad CGI, bad editing, and just poor overall storytelling is the norm with these woke projects. And so they will continue to lose money and get bad reviews. They make their choice, and the public makes theirs.

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  • TheSpaceGnome
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    They aren't.

    People care about franchise continuity because removing that is the equivilant of killing off main characters or making the story so different you can't follow whats canon anymore, it's only tolerated if the original was bad/worse.

    I don't watch disney stuff, but ghostbusters certainly didn't need a retcon, let alone an all female cast replacement of the existing male characters, and I imagine fans of the little mermaid probably feel the same way.

    It has nothing to do with being black.

    No one dislikes kid arachnid/miles morales spiderman, because peter parker still exists.

    No one dislikes samual's portrayal of nick fury, because his version was entertaining, and the original one was a boring character that nobody cared about, so he had to get reinvented.

    No one is crying over a white or Asian version of static shock not existing.

    These are all well receieved characters, as they either upgraded or were joining existing characters, not retconing valued ones out of existence and replacing them.

    This matters for story too, prequels that contradict sequels are received badly for example. As are sequels that either kill off favorite characters or have plots that don't make sense based on earlier movies.

    Creative thinking, appropriate casting for roles, good acting, and good script writing are important.

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  • t_time
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    1st off I want to say everyone is entited to their own opinion. I disagree with the choice. And it's definitely NOT because I am a racist. Which I most certainly am NOT! I do NOT hate anyone because of their skin color. I was just surprised they did not match the description of what I have grew up knowing Ariel to be. Let red heads have their moment. On that note I also disagree with the choice of Emma Watson playing Belle in the live action Beauty and the beast. She ruined my all time favorite movie. It just wasn't who I pictured playing belle plus she can't sing. I think people are forgetting they also came out with a Cindrella movie (which I loved as a kid by the way) who was also black. You can watch it on Disney plus. Also there is Tiana. Mulan, Jasmine and even the movie life size with Tyra Banks as barbie (who is beyond gorgeous) . All woman of color. Why is everyone hating on people who have a different opinion on who the casting should have been? I would have had the same opinion if they made Ariel Caucasian blonde with pink eyes. Or they made her have green hair and blue skin. It wouldn't be what I expected and grew up knowing. I feel like if you don't agree you get called racist. And that's not fair! in most cases, thats bold accusation to make about someone. And In most cases is further from the truth. So STOP the hate.
    Believe me or not but I have been a victim of racism. I was with my 3 girlfriends who are Taiwanese. We ordered an uber one night. The guy pulls up. He said to my friend and I quote " I will take you 3 but I'm not taking the white girl" we fought with him and asked him why. he kept saying " I'm not taking her because she's white. and she is not welcomed to step foot inside this car". My friend told him we are taking another uber and gave him a bad review. I was taken back by this. I couldn't believe what just happened. It made me upset because I didn't do anything this this man and he hated me because I was Caucasian. This actually happened and yes it did suck. It's not fair to hate anyone by their skin color

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  • BlueScorpio
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    Racism.. it's the 21st century after all lol its funny cause for years blacks where whitewashed, erased, or just never given roles. Now that we're getting more representation, some people just can't handle it and want things to go back to the old way aka when we practically invisible internet media/Hollywood.

    I'm also noticing people calling it "woke" to, I'm starting to notice people flinging f that word around when they don't want to see certain person or group of people be showned on screen. What happened to a fictional character can be played by anyone and that race don't matter? That's what we've been told sense ever.

    Especially to black women and darkskin black women who still get erased out certains roles and get replaced by light skin or biracial women. That's still happening, look at the female rap/ pop industry today. It's a lot non black or biracial women pushed as black to black community. It's just crazy. I get wanting original stories with black characters instead of taking old character, but truth of the matter is some people are never going to be happy seeing black folks being in pretty much anything.

    I saw some if the reactions to black panther, to them it's not realistic cause we aren't being shown as struggling slaves cause that's all their use to seeing us in. But a man flying around in bat suit not knowing when Halloween ends and begins is? Okay.

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    • MrOracle
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      Everyone is fine with black actors. Black Panther was a huge success. There are dozens of A-list black actors in Hollywood, and it certainly isn't just black people going to see and support them.

      Likewise, everyone loved Tiana, and Jasmine and Mulan, for that matter. But they were given new, authentic stories, as they deserved to get. Stories that reflected their cultures and celebrated them. That's what SHOULD happen, and when it does, those movies are successful and well-received.

      That's not at all what happened here. Disney race-swapped Ariel for ESG points (i. e., wokeness), and not for creative reasons or because this was the best actress. Disney only invited black actresses to audition, so there's no question that they planned the race swap from the start.

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    • MrOracle
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      Ariel is a Scandinavian character from a Scandinavian story. But Disney is obsessed with doing remakes of everything, and every remake has to be more woke than the original. Because the character was already female, being female wasn't woke enough, so she had to be race-swapped for wokeness. If she had always been a black female, Disney would have had to make her trans, because remakes always have to be more woke.

      Wokeness is the problem here. Wokeness is openly racist. Woke people believe that you MUST use racism to "make up" for past racism, but two wrongs don't make a right. MLK would have lost his mind to find out what is going on today.

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    • BlueScorpio
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      @MrOracle actually a lot people had s issue with black panther despite its success. When we ask for original roles made for black people, there tends to be some backlash from that as well. Ariel is a fictional character, mermaids don't exist so this idea that mermaids can't be black (yes I'm seeing people say this) just doesn't make sense.

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    • BlueScorpio
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      @MrOracle and look how long it took Disney to give us princess and frog? That movie came out in 2009 and we still haven't gotten second film or just a film where little black girls can see more characters that look like them. We had to get on Disney for changing the way Tiana looked in wreck it Ralph.

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  • Glittershine1
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    I can't stand racist people! Especially if they're a colourist or they are stuck in their old ways!

    Non- black people have been extremely jealous of black women since slavery and when their ancestors found out the black people are more powerful and wealthy than any other race on the planet and they also couldn't accept that God is a black man, so some of their elder thought it was smart to white wash black history and promote European beauty standards worldwide instead to hide their racist behaviours! So I see where the ignorants comes from!

    To be honest I think casting only white and fairer skin women in Disney and other lotion picture films except for black women is extremely racist, unfair, biase and wrong! Black women are female too! and it's against the law to be racist and sexist to people of colour in the work place!

    However, it's the 21st century and having a black mermaid the live action version of the little mermaid is amazing, beautiful and very attractive in my opinion. It's a change! And at the end of the day it doesn't matter what colour the character is as long as the actress is confident and talented in playing the role and Halle Bailey has a beautiful singing voice. She deserves it! Black is beautiful!

    I'm black british- Caribbean and I would love to play a main protagonist in the a Disney movie. Even if I wrote my own x

    No matter what shade of brown a black woman is, we should never afraid to chase dreams, love and happiness no matter what people say or throw at us x

    We are human just like everyone else in this world and there is nothing wrong with being different x Being black is what makes us special and unique than everyone else x and this is a gift from God because we are the 'chosen ones'.

    I can't to see the new Disney live action version of the little mermaid next year- 2023 and I am so excited for it!

    Black lives matter! Xxx❤

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    • Miladin
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      TBH you are the one who sound very racist...

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    • Glittershine1
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      @Miladin FUCK OFF! THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH CASTING A BLACK FEMALE PROTAGONIST AS THE LITTLE MERMAID! STOP BEING AN IGNORANT WHITE SHIT!

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    • Miladin
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      @Glittershine1 Mind your language

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    • Glittershine1
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      @Miladin WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT YOU DISRESPECTFUL BASTARD!

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    • JesseJayNeak
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      Except that the original book describes the little mermaid in a very specific way and the movie is making a disservice by casting a black actress

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    • goaded
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      @JesseJayNeak Really? Quote it. Then explain why it's essential to the story.

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    • DermalPunch
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      God is a man? But don't men die...

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    • JesseJayNeak
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      @goaded let me see.

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    • TonightYouu
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      @DermalPunch jesus didn’t

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    • Glittershine1
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      @DermalPunch God is the holy spirit. He is everywhere. He can not die!

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    • Glittershine1
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      @TonightYouu Jesus died once!

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  • Tanhoaon
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    Racist are just the reasons that people want to make it is existing, but you know, smoke come from fire, that happens when media try to put a racial diversity on show, NOT an ability of actor/actress to play the role, that’s not fair first, so don’t talk so far equality when you can’t just respect someone’s effort sinking down by the thing called “diversity”.


    Also, why are you guys just keeping making a lot of conspiracies about all caused by White people. White people plan this, White people plan that. But somethings like White people trying to put a diversity on media, White people trying to protest for Black, White people trying to adopt Black kids, groups of various races, company has a certain amount of Black (google), movie only has Black people, something like that, are all so… vacant from people. Are they just wanting to complain or they just want to say what they want to say without thinking? Trying to replace some event with “White” words by “Black” words then every “racists” just disappear. If I am not Asian and state those things, they probably consider me racist, I bet.


    Let me state clear about racist. When you’re trying to say racist, let’s find racial problem in there. White does shit to Black? How about Black does shit to White, White does shit to White, Black does shit to Black, Black does shit to Asian, Asian does shit to Asian. Are they considered racist? Well, if it happen for every case of race, you can not say it racist. For another case, we have rich White, rich Black, even recently we have a lot of rich Asians pr rich Hispanic/Latino, is it racist problem? Absolutely not, we have poor Black, poor White and poor Asian. Nothing relates to racial problem, it’s just poor-rich problem. Maybe Black/White poor/rich does happen in the past, but things did change, in fact, more White are taken chances for diversity, so how about I say the whole diversity of races racist White?

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    • Tanhoaon
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      Society need time for a transformation even it has been more than a century since civil war happened. If you fight for Black, or Black fight for yourself, remember, if you too push a racial problem too far more than it should be, (because I see a lot of worse shit happen between Asian and Asian than White does to Black, but I bet in reality White does to White either.), you guys will create another worse problem than a current racial problem which is not really existing anymore.
      You claimed you are someone taking rights for Black, like a revenge. Revenge is painful, how you does to White today is how White did to Black in the past. What you do are criminals complaining criminals instead of focusing on problem. Honestly honestly, if you do want to put a diversity, put a diversity, a clear breed between Black and White. Don’t hide behind the racist curtain and then whine White so racist.

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    • Tanhoaon
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      Find a same speech. Don’t try to replace someone speech by another one speech.

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  • findacure4wokeness
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    It's Woke political correctness being crammed down everyones throats and nomatter where you turn you find it weather asked for it or not. a lot of people are feed up with it, I find it so hard to believe that with all this Black Rich History and stories we hear exists yet none of it can be made into movies so we must cast them into clearly white rolls. Those woke agendas are in all movies and shows and they do it to establish knew norms like race mixing and fake multicultural history to make people forget that most white countries were almost completely white 50 years ago.

    In Vikings Valhalla The Queen of Norway is a Black Woman, No leader of Norway was Black or a Woman back then.

    That mermaid is a fictional character yes but so is Camelot set back in what 6th century England in the Merlin series? It looks like it was set somewhere in Sub Saharan Africa, White Sir Lancelot will hook up with the Black Quinevere no doubt.

    It's so overdone now a lot of people automatically think of Forced Diversity when ever they see a black character including me and I just can't enjoy it after that and it angers me that I paid for my own indoctrination material.

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  • Miladin
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    - The Left, Hollywood, media trying to force woke ideology when it gets the chance to the extend that it feels like they're trying to stick it in our throats. Inclusion or diversity are definitely not a bad thing if done correctly. What they're doing however is lazy and it disrespects everyone (including black people for not coming up with new stories and characters for them).

    -Black population in USA is approximately 13%, gay people are far less than that and yet Hollywood, media, gaming industry and etc are trying so hard to change the stereotypes it's just unnatural and respectively it leads to disappointment, laugh, bitterness, criticism, etc. And of course narrow-minded people don't see that, cuz they are lazy and don't want to analyze this issue, but rather they repeat like parrots what the left is saying as a response shouting RACISM RACISM. I understand, it's far more easy to just be a parrot than to use your brain.

    -To those who find this racist how would you explain the fact that we enjoy movies with black folks like Denzel Washington or Samuel Jackson or Will Smith or Eddie Murphy where they kick many white people asses there? How would you explain that. Or when it comes to Disney movies plenty of people the majority of which whites adored Aladdin who's arab and muslim? Where's the racism here, or the islamophobia that lots of crazy left people use to shout left and right?

    -As for me personally, I don't care about little Mermaid, why would I? I'm just sick of this modern woke trend that ruins lots of good franchises.

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  • MrJMM
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    Most of the comments say “It's not my Ariel!” or “It's not even remotely close to the original” so I am like... Hmm. Let's see a Scandinavian story made by Hans Christian Anderson in 1837 dedicated to his boyfriend. Little Mermaid in the original story didn't have just Little Mermaid, The Sea King, The Sea Witch, and more, her skin color was never mentioned, and the entire idea was that readers could make up how they would see the mermaid in their heads. Her motivation is different because she vowed to marry a man to gain an immortal soul, The Sea Witch didn't have any personal gain, Little Mermaid is fifteen when she goes to the surface, and their sisters can visit land but rather be in the sea, little mermaid didn’t collect random object she had a garden with some flowers and a tree. Her transformation is extremely painful and she cuts her tongue. The prince meaning Eric marries a different princess even though he was interested in the mermaid. The little mermaid then gets information from her sister that she can become a Mermaid again but she notices that her sister's hair is cut off because they exchanged for a magical knife all she had to do is stab the prince in the heart. Little Mermaid doesn’t have a happy ending, she couldn't bare to kill the prince so she throws the knife and herself into the sea becoming sea foam. If people wanted close to the original then they should make a script for live adoption of the book and not the Disney movie that came out in 1989.

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    • MrJMM
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      *The characters didn't have names in the book

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    • MrJMM
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      Danish, not Scandinavian my bad

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  • shanshu
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    I think it's more nestalga and what people are used too I think, not the fact she's black, I think they are making too much of a point out there with doing a black version of something like they did with Annie ( which I found terrible Cameron Diaz was terrible as miss Hannignal.) Or doing a woman's version like with Ghostbusters.

    I mean what if they did a reboot of Blade and it was played by a white guy or a new tomb radar came out and it was play by a guy.. people would go insane over it in a bad way. It's not about a black person playing the roles, it what people grew knowing of the roles.

    Why don't they do their own version and put a new way of doing it.

    I mean look at Spiderman, they didn't go and make a black Peter Parker or a female Peter Parker. They did their own Spiderman Miles Morals and that girl is the white Spiderwoman outfit, I think her name was Gwen. Think outside the box.

    I mean they didn't have to do a black Annie, they could of done a musical of another orphan girl being adopted by a rich man.

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  • DizzyDesii
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    I just wish they styled her hair better like when she had it like this but in her sisters shade of red below

    Why are people so butthurt over a black mermaid?Why are people so butthurt over a black mermaid?Why are people so butthurt over a black mermaid?Why are people so butthurt over a black mermaid?Why are people so butthurt over a black mermaid?
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    • Maybeitsme39
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      That would have been so much better

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    • DizzyDesii
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      @Maybeitsme39 for sure 🙏

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    • DizzyDesii
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      Im seeing so many true colors on this post and I’m disgusted. People truly do punish a whole group of people, from both sides (black, white, republican, democrat, etc), in regards to one company's choosing of how they wanted to remake a movie. I bet these whiney whores still gonna go play at Disney World/Land though. I lost so much respect for so many people with this one

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  • Sixgunsound
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    I think people are having a knee-jerk reaction based on political tribalism if they have a problem with a children’s cartoon or in this case live action. Nothing is preventing them from keeping their old movies or books and telling the story they loved as children to their own children. As long as Disney didn’t take public funds to make the movie, I don’t care if the mermaid is striped or polka dotted. The market will sort out whether it is a good movie or not, but I do think that representation of the entire population, which if you were to count up the number of Disney characters and then see what percentage of the whole of them aren’t white, you would see that they are trying to correct a market based appeal inadequacy. Watch the video that @Msputiton posted about this and Grow up. I hope anyone who is angry is never in a position of trust with children or in public office.

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  • ohsheeT
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    I don't know how many billions of people there are on this planet but there's always going to be a problem with somebody somehow somewhere it doesn't matter if a squirrel was Tinkerbell mermaid there's going to be people that love it there's going to be people that hate it and the ones that hate it it's because they don't like themselves it's because they think that they're right all the time they think that they're special you have to ignore those people if that's the girl that's the Mermaid she's very beautiful mermaid and I would welcome that I would even welcome Tinkerbell squirrel as a mermaid but that girl is beautiful she deserves to be a mermaid and nobody should save a negative thing about it what is so negative about it I don't understand that she's a mermaid she's beautiful

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  • JamesDiaz11
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    Why do stupid people always say: "How could (something I don't agree with, but have no basis for it- I just accept whatever fad is most popular)? It's (fill in the year)!"

    Saying the year/ century we are in is not an argument.

    Race is allowed to matter to every other race, but when white people do it it's suddenly anachronistic, or worse: racist.

    If "white washing," is a bad thing, then "black washing" is also a bad thing. The little mermaid is based on European folklore, and should be represented by Indigenous European peoples, or their descendants.

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  • tony_baloney
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    People get upset every time a character or story is deviated from what it's viewed as in it's most popular form. You hear it most often from people who read a story before it was adapted into a movie. I still puke in my mouth a little when I think about what M Night did to Avatar. Look what happened with the sonic movie. Fortunately, sonic isn't human, so no one was able to pull the race card on that one. I feel like that's what 99% of the drama is surrounding. People are just upset the character was changed at all, but because she's black it's spiralling into race baiting drama

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  • purpledrops
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    The thing is, this movie will be made for the children of this generation. It's not aimed at the adults who have been whining about their "white redhead babe crush" being replaced. This will be their version of Little Mermaid and we have our own, there's nothing wrong with it. Skin colour should not matter.

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  • Msputiton
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    It's simple their petty pride, and hate makes it impossible to see the importance of this.

    What it means to young black girls to actually for the first time have something that shows them we can be a pretty princess too, instead of the pretty white princess's friend who straggles along or the servant.

    Let's hope when this shatters children's box office records they start giving our children stand alone original characters to look up to as well

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  • ZS007
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    it's cause Ariel wasn't black in the animation. I was surprised when I first heard it cause I was concerned about the red hair but I honestly don't care now I just hope that the movie is good cause I legit love the little mermaid. 🤣

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    • DermalPunch
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      Do you kow how many black, light-skinned people hav red hair? A looooot! I'm glad your concerns over a cartoon character were assuaged.

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    • ZS007
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      @DermalPunch actually no I have no idea how many black people have red hair. I rarely encounter black people throughout my day. I have to mention that it wasn't now that the trailer came out that I learnt about the actress who will play Ariel. It's been since they announced the cast hence the actor didn't have red hair then. I could only imagine her with red hair at the time. The trailer just came out so I just saw her with red hair. And indeed for some people Disney movies are a big deal. I'm glad you found something to argue about in my comment that had nothing negative 😃 I'm quite surprised actually... anything else to add?

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    • DermalPunch
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      Yes it was evident you don't interact much with black people from your comment. Who's arguing? And what is negative about your concerns being assuaged?

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    • ZS007
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      @DermalPunch if you didn't want to argue why did you reply to my comment, that once again had nothing wrong. Your reply was full of sarcasm and I think you know better than me your intention. Why did you answer to me if nothing bothered you? Even now you say you understand that I must not interact with black people and yet you decided to answer me with this fakeness. "I'm glad your concerns... " lmao well I'm not glad and I don't understand why you needed to reply

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  • msmissydc s
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    I am fine as long as a blue or purple person is playing ursula. And dont get me on costumes or cgi. I want a real purple person otherwise it runs tue original and this remake... Irony off: no I dont understand why people care. Its a fictional character and not even a human to begin with. why care about skin colour it?

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    • DermalPunch
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      Exaaaaactly! If someone other than them is represented it means that they are being overrun.

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  • PeteBy
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    I'd guess people are fed up of black's being randomly thrown in shows/adverts to appease a minority. It's all very WOKE.

    The silent minority speaking because the majority are too busy working.

    I've stopped watching TV/Movies because they throw random black people in who LITERALLY were not there in the timeline.

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  • KelleyNice
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    No one is upset over a black mermaid. If Disney wants to create a new story with black, green, or purple mermaids, no one will object. However, people don't like huge changes in the original story. And, story is the middle ages; not the 21st century.

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  • Oigit
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    Mermaids are one of many creatures in various folklore that has changed over generations. So, I think they should remake the movie based on the folklore of mermaids. Make her a actual sea monster that looks like a beautiful tell you are close enough to realize she isn't. Then you see the the monster she really is right before she drags you under water and eats you. That's the Little Mermaid movie I want to see.

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  • acooke-13
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    I understand people being confused because of the fact the original character is quite obviously white, it's like if a white woman was to play Princess Tiana, people would be confused. However, I don't see a problem with a black woman playing her. It's just a character it shouldn't really matter, unless a part of the film is about a particular race or time in history where it would be disrespectful to mix.

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  • Chazmatazz269
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    Ell oh ell! It doesn’t matter what century it is. Mermaids are almost certainly a figment of mankind’s imagination. So people being bent out of shape about what imaginary beings should look like is so far beyond ridiculous that i’m not certain there are words yet that adequately describe that combination of ignorance and privilege. I’m quite certain the whole of society would be better off without such people.

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  • Anjoomkabir
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    I don't know!

    I saw a response to this that read "Can't wait to see Tom hanks playing Nelson Mandela" It's simply not comparable, is it? Ariel is a fictional figure for Pete's sake. Who really cares what the colour of Ariel's skin is? The kids? Unlike adults, kids are colourblind. They aren't born to be racist

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    • AngeryCapsicum
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      You'd be surprised. Children are oops.

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    • Anjoomkabir
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      @AngeryCapsicum but that's usually (not all the time) because of the way the parents raised them. They pick up things from people around them.

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  • Aerolyn
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    There's always going to be a good amount of people butthurt by the slightest change if things.

    I feel like the reason is obvious, it's because she's black and being a mermaid has always been depicted as white.

    They don't like that change, for whatever reason.

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  • DJB72
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    Reverse the racial change and it gets accusations of "whitewashing" as when Scarlett Johansson was cast in a role associated with Japanese culture.

    You can't have it both ways. Either original ethnicity is important or it isn't. Since Hans Christian Andersen was from Copenhagen he probably wasn't picturing a black mermaid.

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    • 242plusInfinity
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      Horrible comparison.

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    • DJB72
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      Horrible question.

      If you want to see how perverse something is reverse it.

      Beauty pageants "Miss Idaho, 32;24;36"

      Invert it "Mr California, seven inches"

      If you can't see it's perverse from that, you're blind.

      Cultural "appropriation" goes both ways. Nobody told Obama he should be wearing Masai clothing because his dad was from Kenya. He was expected to wear Armani suits - European Caucasian dress. That's appropriating white culture, but it's socially acceptable.

      I need to say I have 100% respect for President Obama and his First Lady.

      But if a White President wore traditional Masai dress he'd be accused of appropriating Black culture.

      You can't have it both ways.

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  • josephinelcajon
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    I am for diversity BUT I am fully against the cancel anti-white! This is the removal of an already white character in order to replace them with a black person. If you added another character who is black, I would have no problem. Disney is currently changing moves and Theam park rides and attractions removing white characters and replacing them with black. This is NOT equal equality! This is racism!

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  • Subarugirl
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    Probably because Disney is being lazy by race swapping a character that was originally white instead of actually making the effort to create an original character that represents people of different races and ethnicities.

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    • skydragonx5
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      This right here as a black men

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    • Subarugirl
      Subarugirl
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      @skydragonx5 I don't think that many people get it.

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    • DermalPunch
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      I do agree with this! I do also think the casting is pretty good so far since she is a "red boned" girl. The thing is she can sing. That's the major thing, right.

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    • DermalPunch
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      They had that princess Tiana.

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    • TonightYouu
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      Not to mention totally butchering a fucking classic

      Me personally I didn’t really like little mermaid but are these rat bastards seriously going to take that same turd and reheat it?

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    • Subarugirl
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      @TonightYouu I get the feeling that you weren’t the targeted demographic for the movie any ways lol

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  • Cubus
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    I guess because Ariel has always had light skin and red hair, so changing it is lack of respect toward source material.

    And even if you make a fanfic then having someone who live several meters underwater black, doesn't make sense from a logical point of view.

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    • Flower7
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      Interesting concept, scientifically.

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    • Cubus
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      @Flower7 Thank you

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    • 242plusInfinity
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      I don't know why people are angry but I think if that is why... Those are horrible reasons. Sometimes it's okay to go against yesterday... As a black person I hope we all do.

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    • Cubus
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      @242plusInfinity Sometimes is, but not in case of books.

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  • qwert1234
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    I do not care about diversity. I want to stick to the original idea.

    If they really want to expand diversity, create a new character and write it good that people will see it as interesting.

    Let's face it - companies are not doing this for diversity.

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  • Filthy_Immigrant
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    just because we are in the 21st century does not mean we should ignore something called "fan base"

    I believe Netflix tried doing this with their Resident Evil series by casting Lance Reddick as their Albert Wesker hence why this franchised failed miserably.

    Why are people so butthurt over a black mermaid?
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    • AngryCarl
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      Studios have made the calculation that pissing off the fanbase is worth the free publicity they get from the controversy.

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    • Filthy_Immigrant
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      @AngryCarl and the fact that their franchises always fails miserably in the end pretty much explains its actually not worth it.

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  • worldscolide
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    Don't really care as long as she does a good job... On that same token leftists would have an absolute melt down if a white person was chosen to portray a black character, or straight person chosen to portray a gay person, or a normal person to portray a trans person. Both sides of this are just stupid.

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    • worldscolide
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      Aw two worthless piece of shit leftists down voted me without leaving a comment, how cowardly of you.

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  • Rod_Iron
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    I think people just don't like well established, well known, characters being repurposed. Take James Bond for example, I grew up watching Mr. Bonds adventures. I do not want an Asian, Black, Hispanic, or anything else Bond. I was a white British male playing that character because that's who he is. Now there are other 00 agents, the canon has made that very clear so pick one of them and nobody cares.

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  • DaisyM23
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    because people apparently think that in the small chance mermaids are real, they must be white too...

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    • DermalPunch
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      MHO!

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  • Cedman
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    It because for 2 centuries the little mermaid has been white young woman as the story originated in Copenhagen, Denmark. Having a black little mermaid changes a continuity of the story. I don't personally care because you can make spinoffs of a fairytale because they are fictional stories. It is kind of like how playing classical in a new exciting way is "wrong". People get angry about classical things being changed.

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  • TonightYouu
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    My biggest issue is that it’s not animated anymore let’s be honest here the little mermaid sucked it was some boring crybaby half salmon bitch who saw a penis for the first time wished for a pussy then went on land left her family and friends behind for dick

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  • CharlieDMX
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    No one has a problem with a black Mermaid.

    Most people have a problem with taking a beloved character and changing her skin color just to appear "inclusive".

    As you say, it is the 21st century, why are the filmmakers trying to rewrite history instead of making new stories that are diverse from their inception?

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  • CarrieWilson4567
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    My sister says it's because White women are all for inclusion and racial equality as long as White women don't lose their power and attention in the media.

    White women need to be the center of everything.

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  • Pinay_ako
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    Idc if she’s purple. Mermaids 🧜‍♀️ and fish come in different colours. Idc! Give me a good solid mermaid story! I like mermaids 🧜‍♀️

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  • 2Wheels
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    I haven't seen what this is from, but it pisses me off if it's true that people are upset about her color.

    Racism is a very triggering topic for me. It makes me so sad that it even exists.

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  • rosemilk
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    because there is no reason to change the race. just make a new character. or at least make her hair actually more red... live action disney films have been bad anyways.

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  • Pr3ttyInPink
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    It's not that we're butthurt, necessarily. It's the fact that Disney is willing to change the ethnicity of a character to appeal to a minority audience instead of creating a whole new original character.

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    • DermalPunch
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      So a beautiful girl that can sing doesn't appeal to a majority audience? No white girls will like this character? Black girls have liked white characters forever so this just proves your racist mindset. I am a black woman and I loved Ariel. I was a girl then.

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  • MysticDevice
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    Good question.

    On a side note: I can't wait for Tom Cruise to be the next Black Panther.

    Wait, what's that? You don't want established characters being messed with and race swapped for no reason? Interesting...

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  • G-Daz
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    Not me,

    I'm just waiting for the next

    - Nigerian Male Mulan

    - Female Italian Black Panther

    To come out.

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    • Fuentes
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      It's coming soon lol

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    • G-Daz
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      Can't say i would be too surprised. Already had a "genderless" fairy godmother
      Why are people so butthurt over a black mermaid?

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  • Berethor
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    SJWs ruin everything, it's an danish story, and it's about a timeline when west was white.

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  • sunflower00
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    Not a clue - she’s a mermaid, she doesn’t come from anywhere specific but the ocean, she looks beautiful and has the red hair so what’s the problem

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  • Apulu_Imback
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    I just don't like her braided and greasy hair. Mermaid have smooth open conditioned hair. That thing can be fixed.

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    • Lyndsielee666
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      Braids and…. Greasy hair?

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    • Apulu_Imback
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      @Lyndsielee666 it's the stylists fault, not her. Yeah if you see carefully then her hair isn't completely open, as if there are thin braids. And it seems greasy to me at least. Well I don't know if that's because if she have curly hair.

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    • Lyndsielee666
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      Might wanna word that differently kiddo. You’re looking rather racist.

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    • Apulu_Imback
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      @Lyndsielee666 ah I see yeah I got many dislikes, I don’t mean that I hate her because she is black. She is beautiful but her hair is just what upsets me.

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  • Likes2drive
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    Because it’s not staying with the original characters looks instead of just making a new character, it’s almost like when they change the actor for the same character in the sequel, it doesn’t make sense

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    • DizzyDesii
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      It might not make sense/cents to you but it will make dollars for Disney so may as well get over it and feel at peace

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    • Likes2drive
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      @DizzyDesii I’m not upset over it , remakes are never like the originals that’s all. I’m far from being racist that’s for sure, they just keep changing things but I think we will see if it does make dollars

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    • DizzyDesii
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      I didn't say you were upset nor racist. I said it may not make sense to you because you said above it doesn't make sense. And things change. I hate change but it happens and all we can do is adapt.

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    • Likes2drive
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      @DizzyDesii Yeah I guess, look how many different Batman’s we had or the Hulk

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    • DizzyDesii
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      Yea but they were different races so it really doesn't compare. But since you mentioned it, who was your fave hulk? Because i did not find the one in the avenger films to be appealing nor funny. But he was convincing as the nerdy bruce

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    • Likes2drive
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      @DizzyDesii I liked Eric Bana

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    • DizzyDesii
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      Finally someone freakin agrees! He was the most appealing and even his Hulk looked good. I like how he reacted when getting all shakey and Jennifer Connelly was amazing too. But i admit that outside of him jumping in the desert or fighting dogs, his film was a but boring with too much talk

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    • Likes2drive
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      @DizzyDesii Yeah exactly

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  • Ms_Facesitter
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    I don't really care about it. But I hope that the movie will follow the original in terms of plot.

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    • Sirenboobzilla
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      Of the original Disney version or the original version Disney got it from where she turns to sea foam?

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    • Ms_Facesitter
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      @Sirenboobzilla Probably the first haha sea foam?

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    • DermalPunch
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      This

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  • hyperben
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    they are? thats pretty sad but hardly surprising, people get upset about inaccurate depictions of Santa Clause!

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  • leighbee
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    Not hurt I just prefer the original as I am not really into remakes, nothing to do with her skin colour

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  • SolitarySolace
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    Because of the ones who say “my Ariel swims around in white tears!”


    That is why I am “butthurt” over a black mermaid in a movie made to divide people

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  • JaxiCats
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    I’m not triggered by the actor or skin color I’m upset about the hair

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    • worldscolide
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      Right that hair just looks weird!!

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    • BlueScorpio
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      @worldscolide I won't lie, I saw here hair to and I thought they could did better with it, and made it more red. Like giver complete dreads or something.

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    • JaxiCats
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      @BlueScorpio the issue for me is the dreads like Ik it’s most likely a wig or something but it doesn’t feel natural and I know one or two scenes are going to be different

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    • DizzyDesii
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      She and her sis have been growing dreads since childhood. So the color may not be real but the majority of the hair is. I feel they could have had someone who knows how to do dreads, do her hair. The dreads in the pic are not fully fresh and done. She needed them done like her sisters here
      Why are people so butthurt over a black mermaid?

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    • JaxiCats
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      @DizzyDesii it just doesn’t feel right to me considering the fork scene we’re Ariel runs it through her hair. If that scene is cuz I would be upset and if her dreads aren’t fresh why did they shoot the thing like that? I feel that has to be somewhat intentional

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    • DizzyDesii
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      Her dreads are not fresh. If you’ve ever had them or know people who have them, you know what fresh dreads look like. But nost likely its cgi since she's underwater and that scene so they got her hair lookin a mess regardless. And yea i dont see the fork scene happening unfortunately because dreads can't be combed through that easily

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    • JaxiCats
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      @DizzyDesii yea I know dreads as my brother had them and they look a hot mess. I just feel like the parts where it doesn’t look dreaded should and look more unraveled at the ends instead of half down and stuff.

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  • AmandaYVR
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    They're mad about white supremacy slowly dying. 😭

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  • Sandeeppingping
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    We should find a black character and get back at them for it ey?

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  • Anonymous
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    Dark skin is selected against in areas with lower amounts of light like the ocean because it inhibits Vitamin D. Lack of this Vitamin causes a lot of problems.

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  • Nash62826
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    They just love finding issues with everything.

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    • nawtee_me
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      who is they? I think he is the one starting something by not saying who it is that doesn't like them... He is vague and it leave you thinking he is right when he could be the one that doesn't like them,

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    • Nash62826
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      @nawtee_me u might have not seen its the 21st century so i doubt its him who has problem and its all over socisl medis lots pf people dont like it.

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  • FilmGuy93
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    I think there's probably some other messaging in the film that they are objecting to. Having a problem with a black mermaid is stupid.

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  • Jenny-Marie
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    Black or white is a non-issue. Unfortunately I haven't seen a mermaid of any colour so I'm unable to give a definitive answer to their ethnicity

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  • jasmine453luv
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    I think its wrong to replace people in movies but I believe everyone should be in any movie doesn’t matter what race you are or
    What kind of disability you have anyone
    Deserved to be in it

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  • TroyDT
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    I don't care about it at all. I do care that Disney's live action remakes of animated classics are generally subpar. I hope this is an exception.

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  • Babygirl_S
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    I'm not. I didn't know they were so concerned about her skin colour or hair texture. But I forgot that those countries showing objection have a long history of racism.

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    • CarrieWilson4567
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      Especially White women.
      My sister said black people don't swim so...

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    • JamesDiaz11
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      @CarrieWilson4567 black people don't know how to swim.

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    • CarrieWilson4567
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      @JamesDiaz11
      Right, my fat sister said that black people need swimming lessons and white people need dance lessons.

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    • JamesDiaz11
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      @CarrieWilson4567 That's fair.

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  • DermalPunch
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    It's so dumb and actually good casting since she's what we call a red girl.

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How do you feel about a black Little Mermaid?

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