The racist backlash to The Little Mermaid and Lord of The Rings is exhausting and extremely predicta

Maybe Disney executed all the white people who dared audition

 

To be clear, you are saying its correct that they (meaning black people?) took our mermaid jobs which belong to white people?

 

Is Morgan Freeman unqualified to play Adolf Hitler?

Is Jim Carrey unqualified to play Joe Dimaggio?

Is Margot Robbie unqualified to play an ugly overweight high school loser?

Just because somebody is a good actor, doesn't mean they are a good fit for every role. And yes, appearances tailored to the role in the movie business actually matters.

I understand that we want minority actors to have opportunities, and they really didn't have a lot of opportunities in that business until the last 30-40 years, but that doesn't mean we should create these special rules so that they replace traditionally White characters in old stories. It means you should write new characters or elevate existing Black ones, don't prioritize turning White characters Black.

 

I'm saying Disney is taking jobs away from White people by trying to "diversify" all of their IPs, even their old ones, which in their case means "less White people."

I don't blame the actress for taking the role of Ariel at all. She's not the bad guy, here, Disney is.

 

So to be clear, all any institution has to do in order to defend itself from accusations of racism is interview minorities?

 

And you think that has to do with a mission correcting American racial politics rather than say, Disney doing business worldwide where there are lots of non-white people that watch movies? Moreover, since you believe that this is taking jobs from white people, you believe that certain jobs are owed to white people ... for what reason exactly? Racial birthright?

 

Seems to work for the NFL

 

Lmao, no it doesn't.

 

Don’t you get it? The original cartoon drew her as a white skinned mermaid, so now white people own that role, even in non-cartoon versions, and black people are stealing it. Stop the steal!

 

That's probably more to do with actually doing racist stuff, like with their healthcare for former players

 

Everyone's brain has been broken since 2016, but did conservatives get this mad when a Puerto Rican guy played Hamilton and rapped? And all the patriots were played by black people too? That king george was played by a white guy? I'm sure some did, but I dont remember it being much of a thing either. Certainly dont remember hearing people argue that Hamilton was taking away jobs from white people.

 

To be honest, I think this faux outrage is at least partially fueled by DeSantis being the rising star of right wing heroes and his attack on “woke” Disney… but there also probably a lot of real outrage by real racists who think white people are owed mermaid jobs…..

 

No problem as long as they cast the rest of the Apostles and Jewish population as black, too. Remember, Jesus looked like, “everyone else.” No remarkable features according to the New Testament.

 

It's a singing fish woman. Not a historical character. Are you broken? There is zero about an elf or a mermaid that makes it white. Only in your skewed eyes. No one is trying to get a biopic on Princess Dianna to be played by an African American.... its a fictionalized creature/character. Do you see the difference? Annie isnt real. Hitler was a real person.

 

Jesus is white according to Fox News

 

Link?

 

I really don't care who plays what role when or where...
But be careful with this line of thought. Hamilton was very much a historical character...not played by a white guy.
How well would a white Storm from the X-Men go over?
Again... I don't care but the argument being made above is a limiting one that you may not really want.