Ryan Kinel is angry. At least he's angry when he's on YouTube, somehow I doubt he is that angry all the time. Though in this case the schadenfreude he serves up is exquisite.
Disney is about to release a race-swapped, live-action version of the 1989 animated film, The Little Mermaid. (That was based on a Danish fairy tale, but cultural appropriation isn't an issue in that direction.) The 2 trailers that they released have been hammered on YouTube, to the point where Disney disabled comments.
Now I'm sure some of the comments were about race, but I'm equally sure that most of the comments were about what has plagued Marvel and everything else coming out under the Disney logo, including this movie, horrible computer graphics. In whichever trail I saw - I don't really care about this movie - things were either very dark or just bad. Making things very dark, or having a lot of rain - to blur things - is a cheap way to cover up for bad special effects.
So of course, with no comments on the trailers, Disney has done what they have done with every woke release in the past year or two. From The Woman King on down, if you don't like our sh*tty computer graphics, our bad writing, and worse acting, it is because you are just racist/homophobic/whatever. It was a defense that worked some when it was new. (Hint: You were NOT fighting racism by going to see the first Black Panther movie, you were giving money to a couple of multinational corporations.) People are not buying their BS anymore. Literally, not buying it, as in not buying tickets to movies.
This is Ryan Kinel's video Disney PANICS Over Little Mermaid Backlash | Halle Bailey Says You're RACIST If You Don't Like It!
Imagine the quandary for me of news like this when I DO NOT CARE WHAT COLOR YOUR SKIN IS. DO. NOT. CARE. NO POINTS GIVEN NONE TAKEN AWAY. YOUR SKIN COLOR IS NOT WHO YOU ARE. WHO YOU ARE IS IN-BETWEEN YOUR EARS NOT PIGMENT OF YOUR SKIN.
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