Now that I see the reaction to a cartoon character being black I can confidently say there is no more racism in America.
We haven’t had the chance to discuss little mermaid
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I totally agree with you that racism is still present in America in everyone particularly starting with you and me.
Based on what i see the various population groups have different levels of calling out racism.
The best at 19 per cent of the US population is the Latino population which handle bias claims the best.
The worst discrimination is against Eastern or Orientals based on Harvard applications and studies.
The white population ar 68 per cent segment has intense race and hate mongering against it from many groups as Willie Sutton would say thats where the money is at.
The black population at 12 per cent has made it a cottage industry to use racism as a rallying cry yo create leverage to receive benefits that help small specific segments of that group and these elitist
then ignore the need of the larger black population. Perfect example look at the cities controlled by the blue.
Just so you can respond with hate please know I am developing programs to help my predominantly black community in which I live because I believe in Christianity and treating people with respect and dignity
I do not believe in what the Democratic Party or left sees as helping people by making them dependent
Do start with your side of the argument and i hope you will avoid hate mongering and focus on unity and solutions for all of society
It would make us a better world if you would
Give loving your fellow man a chance
Based on what i see the various population groups have different levels of calling out racism.
The best at 19 per cent of the US population is the Latino population which handle bias claims the best.
The worst discrimination is against Eastern or Orientals based on Harvard applications and studies.
The white population ar 68 per cent segment has intense race and hate mongering against it from many groups as Willie Sutton would say thats where the money is at.
The black population at 12 per cent has made it a cottage industry to use racism as a rallying cry yo create leverage to receive benefits that help small specific segments of that group and these elitist
then ignore the need of the larger black population. Perfect example look at the cities controlled by the blue.
Just so you can respond with hate please know I am developing programs to help my predominantly black community in which I live because I believe in Christianity and treating people with respect and dignity
I do not believe in what the Democratic Party or left sees as helping people by making them dependent
Do start with your side of the argument and i hope you will avoid hate mongering and focus on unity and solutions for all of society
It would make us a better world if you would
Give loving your fellow man a chance
I've seen some internet memes about this.
I don't get it. It's a fictional character. She can be whatever color they want her to be.
I don't get it. It's a fictional character. She can be whatever color they want her to be.
Winner!! This whole debate is stupid.
Personally, my favorite Disney princess is Tiana from the Princess and the Frog. Not b/c she's black, but because she was kick ass. She had a dream of having the best restaurant in New Orleans and she didn't sit on her ass and wait for some Prince Charming to come bail her out and make all her dreams come true. She learned from her dad that if you want something, you'd best be prepared to work for it. And she did and got her restaurant.
It seems to me that people of all races are being intentionally divisive, and pouring hate from all angles...not everyone, obviously, but many...policies are divisive, commercials, culture being promoted, is simply divisive. There's a reason for this...a people divided is much easier to conquer and control...just my .02
The meme that got me was one that said that in response to making The Little Mermaid black, they were going to do a movie with Mel Gibson as either Martin Luther King or Malcom X (I can't remember).
What the actual fu...
A large part of this problem is that so much is intentional...intended to bring outrage that may not have been racism in the beginning, but due to being forced to "pick sides" that's what it turns into...whether it be recasting for poc, or intentionally making someone a buffoon, or the bad guy, or always casting " white girls" with "poc" and not even casting a white male, unless, like I said, he's the "bad guy"...it's just proportionately incorrect...
Most of this stuff doesn't bother me, until the narrative becomes that I'm (or ppl that look like me) a bad person that doesn't deserve good, no matter how hard I try...that bothers me...
There absolutely is racism today, I just think that before, it was more prejudice that could easily be overcome with conversation...today it's being weaponized into hate...and THAT I don't like.
First, let me say that the Little Mermaid sucks ass. I hate it when my daughter wants to watch it. It is basically about a girl trying to change herself so a guy will like her.
That said, the right's reaction to it is right on brand. For people who call everyone else snowflakes, they tend to get very worked up over a mermaid being black in a movie.
Would this be a bad time to bring up that Jesus was also black?
The point most people want to ignore is that Disney is in the money printing business
They dont give a crap what color or species even the Little Mermaid is
If it makes more money do it
The moment it is more profitable to be Whiteness Disney will turn on the Black community or Latino or whatever and chase the money
Accept that reality and you will be better off and happier in your life
And it really does not matter to me what Disney does or how characters are portrayed as it TV and acting
They dont give a crap what color or species even the Little Mermaid is
If it makes more money do it
The moment it is more profitable to be Whiteness Disney will turn on the Black community or Latino or whatever and chase the money
Accept that reality and you will be better off and happier in your life
And it really does not matter to me what Disney does or how characters are portrayed as it TV and acting
where is this outrage? theres a handful of people that have a problem with everything being cherrypicked. other than that no one gives a sht.
if anyone wants to see racism you can check out the things said to/about clarance thomas recently. that was some heinous sht and it was not at all limited to a negligible handful of idiots - it was everywhere.
if anyone wants to see racism you can check out the things said to/about clarance thomas recently. that was some heinous sht and it was not at all limited to a negligible handful of idiots - it was everywhere.
a 'negligible handful of idiots' is only negligible if you only subscribe to white power news network. how is it that every time conservatives rage it's only a few that were cherrypicked. liberals do the same shit and it's ruining the country.
the more this continues the more i really want liberals to raid the Capitol. would be hilarious to hear the spin.
i have bloomberg on all day but how mentally deranged do you have to be to make an assumption like that based on absolutely nothing. ive barely seen anything about this because why would i care what color a mermaid is? no one in my life has said a word about it, dont care, dont know anyone that does. havent seen it blown up on social media. just people looking for something to be upset about.
of course people cherry pick idiot liberals. thats the bullsht of todays politics. its not hard to differentiate idiots from issues. its not one side thats always in the wrong, and no one has monopolized idiots.
and id have the same thoughts had the exact same thing played out from the left. reality is reality.
How many of 'the right' actually GAF? I've seen a couple of internet memes but no real outrage.
I just don't think people care. There's always gonna be a few to make a big deal out of it. But by and large...
You mean Jesus wasn't a white guy who spoke English with a British accent?
now they gone too far. they blackified jesus
Who knew?
I would be totally fascinated to hear how you came to know that Jesus was black
I have no clue but again I am all ears to hear how you assert that as a fact.
Or is it thrown up on the wall hoping it will stick
He was Palestinian Jewish or a Jewish Galilean if you prefer - the same as just about everyone else in the area at the time aside from the Romans.
Remember, Judas Iscariot had to point him out in the Garden of Gethsemane because he 'looked like everyone else.
He wasn't white. He didn't speak English (he probably could have but that's another argument) and He didn't have a British accent. None of this is news to anyone.
The reason He appears 'white' in older paintings is likely because the artists a) didn't know what He looked like, and b) when we picture someone and we don't know what they look like, we tend to picture them looking like us.
These paintings often date back hundreds of years. They couldn't Google a picture of Jesus to go by.
What Did Jesus Look Like? | HISTORY
He is one of the most commonly painted figures in Western art. But what do we really know about his appearance?
www.history.com
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4 million illegal immigrants enter our country
Inflation is at a 40 year high
Crime is increasing throughout our country
Leave it to the dem nancies to start a thread on the "real issues that matter."
Inflation is at a 40 year high
Crime is increasing throughout our country
Leave it to the dem nancies to start a thread on the "real issues that matter."
Just a minor point … English didn’t exist when Jesus was alive, matter of fact a English speaker today, could really only go as far back as Shakespearean (mid 1600) times and be able to communicate at all, and even then it would be quiet a challenge. Before that to about the mid 1300s understanding “English” at all would be virtually impossible for a modern speaker to to the great vowel shift of the time.He was Palestinian Jewish - the same as everyone else in the area at the time.
Remember, Judas Iscariot had to point him out because he 'looked like everyone else.
He wasn't white. He didn't speak English (he probably could have but that's another argument) and He didn't have a British accent. None of this is news to anyone.
The reason He appears 'white' in older paintings is likely because the artists a) didn't know what He looked like, and b) when we picture someone and we don't know what they look like, we tend to picture them looking like us.
These paintings often date back hundreds of years. They couldn't Google a picture of Jesus to go by.
What Did Jesus Look Like? | HISTORY
He is one of the most commonly painted figures in Western art. But what do we really know about his appearance?
And before that … “English” is unrecognizable.
“English” has roots in so many different cultures due to the British isles being invaded and conquered by so many outside parties…. Romans, Normans, Danes, Germanic tribes …
The history and evolution of Britain is absolutely fascinating.
Umm....son of God? He might be able to pull it off. (That's what I was getting at). But you are right about it not really existing.
And for the record, I'm guessing Jesus could also hit a curveball. (Let's see who gets that reference).
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Ah ha! Gotcha
.Major League
As far as the thread topic … personally, my general feeling is … “of course, of course Disney hired a black actress to play Ariel”. We can go around and around in circles discussing whether or not a mermaid is white or black and justify our positions by pointing out the original fairytale was Danish (white European), which is course countered by revealing that in the original text the mermaid’s skin was translucent green …. Rabble rabble rabble and around we go ….
The young lady has a tremendous singing voice, which is obviously the most important …
Where I tend to bristle, is the bullshit argument of “it’s a fictional being, who cares what skin color it is”…. This argument is often coupled with articles saying how wonderful “representation” is and how little girls of color can now see themselves in the Ariel Disney Princess. Variety magazine wrote articles on both of the above within hours of each other. If the character is fictional and therefore it’s skin color is meaningless, how can it be wonderful to POC little girls? How can something be both wonderful and meaningless???? That doesn’t make any sense
Going a little further, next year Disney will release its live adaption of “Snow White”, and Snow White will be played by a Latin actress.
(It will also “reimagine” the role of the Dwarves to be more inclusive of little people and how they are viewed in modern society, but that is a topic for a different thread)
Snow White, a German fairytale, telling the story of a German princess, being played by a Latin actress. Just putting my SJW hat on here … how is that not cultural appropriation? How is that not any different that Johnny Depp playing a Native American in The Lone Ranger?
When the movie Raya was released, there was a outcry from SJWs that Disney used voice actors of Korean, Chinese, and Japanese decent, versus the south Asian countries of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia where the story originated. They called it … cultural appropriation.
((sigh))
here is the thing … we all know if the situation was the other way … Ryan Gosling recast as T’Challa, Emily Blunt as Storm … cities would be burning and statues toppled (all by white upper middle class douchebag kids btw)
(shrug)
carry on
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