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The Little Mermaid’ Criticized By Prominent Diversity Advocate For Its “Dangerous” Erasure Of Slavery (archive.vn)
posted 3 years ago by Mpetey123 3 years ago by Mpetey123 +22 / -0
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– ailurus 21 points 3 years ago +21 / -0

He said that Disney could have set the film in Haiti after it had overthrown the shackles of slavery, with Ariel meeting her prince against the backdrop of burgeoning racial harmony.

Ummm, but in the previous paragraph you say:

but he argued that children are not well served by overlooking the past.

There was no racial harmony in Haiti after the revolution. Just Dessalines having his soldiers going house to house and murdering nearly every white person in the country.

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– Gizortnik 16 points 3 years ago +16 / -0

Somewhere around 2,500 whites were systematically executed, including the ones who had supported the revolution. Basically all of the French non-settlers and all of the plantation owners were killed. While some women were dragged onto the steps of the capital building and publicly had their throats cut, most of the women were forcibly married to black men. The dictator of Haiti then declared the country to be "black" in the constitution.

IIRC, the few whites men to survive were whites that were specifically in his political sphere (who were ordered to leave), and something like a hundred or so Prussian soldiers (Hessian effectively), that had assisted in the coup, and were also allowed to leave.

This act of barbarism is largely responsible for the state of near hysterical paranoia the American south began living in as a result, and was a major cause of many of it's racial laws in the Antebellum period. As with Nat Turner, there was worse blowback from these actions than anything good they may have theoretically caused. Certainly with Haiti, we can see that zero good came from it.

I will remind you that Kamalla Harris's family is part of the plantation-owning, slave owning, forcibly integrated population of Haiti

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– Smith1980 8 points 3 years ago +8 / -0

I thought her family owned slaves in Jamaica. But I’ve heard about that history. I can see how that would have a chain reaction in the south.

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– Gizortnik 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

I thought it was Hati... I could be wrong.

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– deleted 12 points 3 years ago +12 / -0
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– BetterNameUnfound 10 points 3 years ago +10 / -0

It's never enough.

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– MegoThor 8 points 3 years ago +8 / -0

The only winning move is to not play.

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– StupidPrizeWinner 8 points 3 years ago +8 / -0

Oh, so now historical accuracy and verisimilitude matter when it is about African slavey, "embracing our rich history and empowering (children) with the truth.” Go "whitewash" yourself, you nob.

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– Devidose 7 points 3 years ago +7 / -0

"Don't sabotage the grift!"

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– Norenia 5 points 3 years ago +5 / -0

Caribbean slavery on an island nation ruled by a black queen? Does he really want to go there?

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– deleted 5 points 3 years ago +5 / -0
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– TyCat999999 4 points 3 years ago +4 / -0

I love how fraught the modern “discourse” is. If you just don’t give a fuck, it’s very entertaining. After all the rage leftists threw at people who for disliking black Ariel, they turn around and do this, and gay leftists are also enraged that the makeup artist for Ursula isn’t gay because the original animated Ursula’s look was based on a drag Queen so it’s appropriation or something. And they’re also raging that some of the live action Lilo actors aren’t dark enough for their tastes. There isn’t any way to satisfy these psychopaths, so I just laugh at the whole state of things and go about my day however I would have done regardless.

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– Smith1980 3 points 3 years ago +3 / -0

I mean if these people want to learn about slavery they can go to a library or order some books on Amazon. Also there are videos on YouTube. If you are looking to this movie as some sort of historical documentary then that is pretty sad

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– bamboozler1 3 points 3 years ago +3 / -0

First it was “Mermaids can be black! It’s still the same (Danish) story, just with muh diversitay!”

And now this.

Full “mask off” moment, much!

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