Sounds about right to me

[htownbrown]

The Media Claims That Racists Are Outraged Over A Black Mermaid. The Outrage Is Completely Phony, Of Course.

 

The news of this casting was greeted with mild shrugs from the vast majority of grown-ups, who are too busy paying bills to worry about which actress is portraying a fictional fish woman in a Disney film. In some quarters, the news prompted exuberant celebration, as it finally explodes the pernicious and harmful myth that all aquatic creatures are Caucasian. Now little girls of all races can dream of one day living in a coral reef and doing battle with an evil octopus who communicates her dastardly plans via spontaneous musical numbers.

Most people don't care about any of this and some people are way too excited about it. But that's not the story the media is telling. Google "Ariel" or "The Little Mermaid" right now and you will be greeted with dozens of articles reporting on an alleged "outrage" among "racists" who are very angry that their favorite cartoon mermaid has changed colors. #NotMyAriel was even trending on Twitter last night, with well over 100,000 people tweeting on the subject.

The problem, though, is that easily 95% of the tweets in the #NotMyAriel hashtag are from people outraged at the people who are outraged about the casting. Go look through it yourself and you will be hard pressed to find a single person who appears to be authentically angry that Ariel isn't white. Almost everyone is angry that people are allegedly angry that Ariel isn't white.

BET has an article declaring "Racists Are Big Mad That A Black Girl Is Playing Ariel In ‘The Little Mermaid.'" To prove that these "big mad" racists do, in fact, exist, BET provides precisely six tweets. Two of the tweets are from anonymous accounts with less than 10 followers. Two are from non-white people. Complex, The Daily Dot, and Pajiba did entire articles about one "racist" tweet from one now-suspended account. It appears that the account is a sock puppet with a stolen profile photo, which is probably why it's suspended.

Now, I have noticed a few real people annoyed by the glaring double standard. A white cartoon character can be portrayed by a black actress but a black character could never be portrayed by a white actress. The "Aladdin" remake caught some griefbecause the woman playing Jasmine wasn't Arab enough. Movies that cast straight actors to play gay characters run afoul of the woke-squad. Just imagine the outrage — real, legitimate outrage — if Amy Adams was cast as Tiana in a "Princess and the Frog" remake. Yet the people who would be sent into convulsions of fury about that are the same people who cheer when a white character is changed to black. It is not "outrage" — and it certainly isn't racist — to point this out. The annoyance is over the hypocrisy, not the casting. Personally, I think people of any race should be able to play fictional characters of any race. It's all imaginary, anyway. Make James Bond black and Shaft white. Make them both Chinese. Make them green with purple stripes. Who cares? It's fiction.

"The Little Mermaid" is also fiction, and so is the outrage surrounding it. This is yet another phony "backlash" invented by people who are ideologically invested in the idea that America is a racist country where even the mermaids aren't allowed to be black. It's like the Starbucks cupsall over again — something that provides progressives an opportunity to write scolding thinkpieces, and tweet self-righteously, and scream at a bad guy who exists only in their imagination. In the end, the outrage is about as real as a mermaid. But why should that stop the media from reporting on it?

[MLD Woody]

Yes, stories that generate clicks are generally what's written. This involves embellishing, on both sides. 

The 30 something white male 4chan Trump train troll Lord's bitching about a black Ariel are in fact, the minority. 

Same as the SJW feminist pink hair shrill liberal bitches.

But playing them up as an issue generates views. 

[Clevfan4life]

25 minutes ago, MLD Woody said:

 

But playing them up as an issue generates views. 

are u as amazed as i am that tge older people in our country are more often than not the ones who cant figure out whats being done to us? I mean i have vastly more understanding for some little kid who's parents used a smart phone and/or tablet in lieu of actual parenting, those kids never had a shot.  But the the older people...people born not long after the war, how dobthey not see this shit? 

[MLD Woody]

45 minutes ago, Clevfan4life said:

are u as amazed as i am that tge older people in our country are more often than not the ones who cant figure out whats being done to us? I mean i have vastly more understanding for some little kid who's parents used a smart phone and/or tablet in lieu of actual parenting, those kids never had a shot.  But the the older people...people born not long after the war, how dobthey not see this shit? 

They aren't used to the internet. Didn't grow up with it. I think that's how they're so easily manipulated. 

[DieHardBrownsFan]

The outrage,  the endless pussy outrage........🖕

[Clevfan4life]

i am dying at tge hashtag #notmyariel tho. I would caucasians give no fuks about a fictional human/fish hybrid played a black actress......but nothing would surprise me either.

[Westside Steve]

They should cast a white actor as Frederick Douglass just to watch the Liberals completely lose their shit.

WSS

[MLD Woody]

20 minutes ago, Westside Steve said:

They should cast a white actor as Frederick Douglass just to watch the Liberals completely lose their shit.

WSS

But that's an actual historic figure ...

[bigbambo]

22 hours ago, Clevfan4life said:

are u as amazed as i am that tge older people in our country are more often than not the ones who cant figure out whats being done to us? I mean i have vastly more understanding for some little kid who's parents used a smart phone and/or tablet in lieu of actual parenting, those kids never had a shot.  But the the older people...people born not long after the war, how dobthey not see this shit? 

yeah, I'm so amazed...it's like a nazi in a concentration camp kissing putin being held by hitler.  These poor kids...how did they ever survive such tough times? you must be a gene yus to vastly understand...good for you!