The Absurd GOP

[Fireball]

You know how Republican governors are ‘dumping’ unauthorized aliens in blue states?

Domestic Transporting -- Subsection 1324(a)(1)(A)(ii) makes it an offense for any person who -- knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, transports, or moves or attempts to transport or move such alien within the United States by means of transportation or otherwise, in furtherance of such violation of law.

Oh dearie dear…

Boru

Merrick Garland...paging Merrick Garland. It never ceases to amaze me how these eejits can commit crimes and then prance about the world stage bragging about it...and never being charged. Let's hope against hope that somebody does.

[Foxaèr]

Merrick Garland...paging Merrick Garland. It never ceases to amaze me how these eejits can commit crimes and then prance about the world stage bragging about it...and never being charged. Let's hope against hope that somebody does.

Clearly, it's only a crime if committed by a poor person or person of color.

[The Architect Of Fate]

Anti-trans troll Matt Walsh says Black mermaids aren’t “scientific” in on-air meltdown
LGBTQ Nation

Daily Wire host and columnist Matt Walsh has upped his profile as a notorious anti-LGBTQ troll in recent months, targeting transgender people with his film What Is a Woman? Now, he’s diving into the racist backlash against Disney’s live-action remake of The Little Mermaid.

And his argument against casting a Black actor in the film’s lead role is truly wild: he claims that it’s “scientific” for mermaids to be white.

Not to mention they already had a black mermaid and no one cared then 

https://littlemermaid.fandom.com/wiki/Gabriella

Of course, Walsh and his fellow loons insist the was a joke like they always do when they're called out for racism.

[Foxaèr]

Lately, I've had this thought that these irrational GOP outbursts are being used to deflect our attention away from more important issues. Thus, the conservatives are laughing behind our backs, Look at these snowflakes getting their panties in a twist over such triviality.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Anti-trans troll Matt Walsh says Black mermaids aren’t “scientific” in on-air meltdown
LGBTQ Nation

Daily Wire host and columnist Matt Walsh has upped his profile as a notorious anti-LGBTQ troll in recent months, targeting transgender people with his film What Is a Woman? Now, he’s diving into the racist backlash against Disney’s live-action remake of The Little Mermaid.

And his argument against casting a Black actor in the film’s lead role is truly wild: he claims that it’s “scientific” for mermaids to be white.

Hollywood has a long history of changing the ethnicity of fictional characters:

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Boru

[Angrboda]

Lately, I've had this thought that these irrational GOP outbursts are being used to deflect our attention away from more important issues. Thus, the conservatives are laughing behind our backs, Look at these snowflakes getting their panties in a twist over such triviality.

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”

― H.L. Mencken, In Defense Of Women

[Ahriman]

How much sense does it make to cast a black actress as the little mermaid when the original little mermaid was a white girl with red hair?

[Jehanne]

How much sense does it make to cast a black actress as the little mermaid when the original little mermaid was a white girl with red hair?

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??

[Ahriman]

How much sense does it make to cast a black actress as the little mermaid when the original little mermaid was a white girl with red hair?

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.

[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.