The Absurd GOP

[Jehanne]

As mermaids do not exist, why not?  It's like asking why there can't be black dragons?  Or white ones?  Purple?  Pink?  With (or without) flowers??

Ok yeah but you're missing the point. Mermaids exist in fiction, and in the original movie, the little mermaid was a white girl with red hair. So the character they create, for this new movie, had better be a white girl with red hair. Makes perfect sense. Making her a black girl makes no sense.

You're entitled to your opinions (of course!), but artists (and the companies that own the copyrights & trademarks to their works) have artistic freedom:



If they want to change their characters appearance, in whole or in part, well, that is their artistic freedom & right; at a minimum, such is their First Amendment Right.