Making the new live action Little Mermaid watchable.
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You've opened by assuming my intents. Already a bad start to be wildly off by that far. Especially as you keep doing it all the way through. I brought no race or memes up, I only called your foundational statement ignorant.
This may be hard for you to understand, considering you went off on a wild tangent with no provocation, but people can disagree with your ideas without being the unhinged racist strawman you constructed.
Yes, and the other side has proven time and time again it can just make up stories wholesale to sell their products and do it quite successfully. It doesn't matter what we provide, if they are lacking in the necessary reality than a completely fabrication is more than enough for their purposes. Even when its found to be a fabrication, its simply buried and baited away from to sell the new one. Their "hearts and minds" are fickle and easily manipulated. Especially to an enemy who has not only mastered manipulating them without care for the damage or basic ethics/morals, but has control of all the most powerful weapons.
This implies its only done because they are accused of it. Which is simplifying the motives down considerably and I think loses sight of a lot.
In this case specifically, someone could prefer the white version for entirely non-racist reasons. Stickler for adaptational accuracy, the less weird looking of the actress' eyes, the improved color aesthetic from the more clashing of white/red vs blue instead of brown/brown on blue. None of those are anti-black or from a place of hate really, but can draw people to this option regardless. The color one is my personal beef, because christ its so washed out and plain looking.
There is also the simple reversal of "you race swapped it in the first place, doing it back is only fair." Which is what I wager this instance is more than any racism itself.
I'm not a man for optics, simply because I've been in this "culture war" for nearing three decades now and seen more ground lost to trying to keep up the PR facade than actually doing anything else.
And don't worry about the misstep, its easy to do when you get engaged in a mass argument.
Well yes, but we've moved on from the old fable type source. Now Disney's The Little Mermaid is the source material to people for this movie.
That's not even on people either. Disney isn't redoing it from the original material to make a "similar but different" version (like Mulan tried to do), this is them adapting their own work again. So accuracy to source is a valid complaint.
I still disagree on point 1, but that's just our worldviews not being congruent and we won't come to an agreement there.
I do agree on 2, people need to stop hate watching garbage. Its especially bad because they prop up an entire industry of clickbait outrage farmers who watch it and obsessively talk about it. I liked a lot of people in the "Fandom Menace" at first, but they are an example of why this kind of thing is a problem and is being used against us to monetize our outrage.