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To avoid controversy, Disney should have just kept the Little Mermaid white

posted a year ago by pbt (108)
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and have Prince Eric be black.

He can be the prince of Zamunda, in a crossover between the Little Mermaid and Coming to America.

[–] Ranb (7942) a year ago

You really think there are few people that would be all butt-hurt over any change to skin color in that film? Making Eric black would have brought the anti-miscegenation people out of the woodwork in droves. There is nothing worse, for some people, than imagining a black man in bed with a white woman.

[–] LoveCatsHateDogs (1648) a year ago

That must be why interracial porn is so unpopular.

[–] Ranb (7942) a year ago

Good one. :) What people do in private and how they display their feelings about an issue in public can be very different.

[–] Narwhale37 (825) a year ago

You don't get it. This is a powermove on their part. If this makes money, it will literally mark the end of the culture war. It will expose the right winged culture war babies as the manchildren minority that they are.

[–] HarveyManFredSin (4877) a year ago

You seem a bit unhinged.

People have different tastes to you. In a free society, you need to fucking deal with it, without calling people who have different tastes to you, names. That's NOT what nice, reasonable, mature people do (then again, my mistake if you don't regard yourself as any of those things).

[–] Narwhale37 (825) a year ago

Nah, Righties blew it when they attacked Halle Bailey the second the trailer dropped. It's not about "taste" because the movie hasn't came out yet and the right winged culture war babies haven't given valid criticism yet. Just seethe over their racist worldview collapsing before their eyes.

Expect copium intake by the gallon come June.

[–] HarveyManFredSin (4877) a year ago

If it turns out to be a GENUINELY good film, that's great. If it turns out to be another Ghostbusters: Answer the Call, and people are shamed for not supporting a mediocre film because it has the 'right' agenda, that's not so great.

Just make good films FFS, and leave the 'culture wars' to the activists and idiot columnists with nothing better to write about.

[–] chilidoggg (13389) a year ago

They should have made Ariel a lipstick lesbian and had Erik be a Muslim transgender disabled illegal alien (maybe put him in a wheelchair so neither of them have legs.)

[–] Kowalski (63571) a year ago

AWW...THE CLICHE JUMBLE UP...HOW BASIC OF YOU.