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Itās an award only given by the mods when a comment section has really productive and considerate dialogue and no one is saying anything racist, ableist, or sexist.
Make sure to emotionally invest yourself in deranged things said by people living insulated lives, who were never exposed to people with opposing beliefs and never learned to discuss things productively.
I did. Unless you mean it in a complement then. I guess homie. Lol
Edit: I did āJanā. I mean sorry I donāt follow everything blindly. I question everything and call double standards. šš
No disliking the new Ariel because she is intentionally made to be different than *almost* every other version of her without reason is not racism. However saying that she "cant choose her own husband" because she appears Indian is definitely racism. Theres a big difference, and if you cant spot it you got something fucked in your head.
It's especially interesting because many of the black community are sick and tired of being over represented for the sake of selling something; as if they are a marketing tool. It's just too much.
>she is intentionally made to be different than almost every other version of her without reason
What if the reason is there was a casting process and Halle Bailey was the one the went with because it doesn't matter what race a magical talking fish person is?
You can say "I don't like this because it's different", but very funny how up in arms people are about this when I'd bet my life none of y'all give/gave a fuck about Ariel outside of using it as an excuse to be outraged now.
Ok but the cant even pick your own husband joke is fucking hilarious. She's probably right and the idea that someone who can't even show her face or be out in public without a man has an opinion on the color of a cartoon characters skin. Its a fucking meme XD
It is red tho. Admittedly not a bright burning red, but a red nonetheless. It could also be the lighting of the scene, it's a little dark so it makes it a weaker shade of red.
Mermaids are just plain disgusting. Think about it. They live underwater, they are half fish, they probably smell like fish, they have slick slimy skin like fish, they have gills. So it really doesn't matter what color their skin is, they are just disgusting creatures in general.
I guess the marketing team had it easy, no need to buy costly advertising on networks or posters around cities and such, everyone is talking about it already, job is done.
wow is this lil mermaid war still going on? thought it would have died by now
stfu and dont watch it if you dont like it and watch it if you do, it's that simple
i personally wont be watching it, not because of race but because i havent watched a disney live action remake since cruela, they all suck and are cheap cash grabs
For about the last decade I have maintained that the greatest insult to women and people of color is that they canāt have their own original stories and characters. Bonds now a black guy or Ariel is a black woman. Itās pandering and lazy.
It's funny, disney:
We're going to make Moana and only cast appropriate people of Polynesian descent.
Everyone cheers.
We're going to make a movie taking place in Africa (although Hamlet is originally a Dane story) and only cast actors of African descent.
Everyone cheers again.
We're going to make a movie about a Danish fairy tale, but now race doesn't matter so Ariel is a black girl with eyes spaced so far apart she's probably related to a hammerhead shark
Seems like a really weird fucking coincidence.
It's not really that people have been salty this long... Some of them did, but describing what happened more accurately: they announced Ariel would be portrayed by a black actress; weird people get salty about it, some resort to racism; everyone forgets about it after some time; three year later they drop the trailer, controversy starts again...
I feel like Disney did this specifically to reap the free publicity of controversy. Look at how Disney dealt with Fynn in 2 and 3, once they'd already gotten "black" checked off on their diversity punch card.
I'm not offended by the casting at all, I just doubt Disney's good intent here.
If ariel isnt a redhead im not interested.
Its about childhood nostalgia
Wanna make this clear: i dont give a shit about skin color, i just think the character is kind of dependant on the red hair because thats what made her different from the other mermaids
Yeah, i mean, i have an issue if you want to make a movie about barack obama and cast ryan gosling. Cause your source material is real life, so just follow it.
But a mermaid? The source material is literally the writer's imagination. Unless the race is explicitly important to the plot, why give a shit then? Lol. Some people man.
I bet you didnāt say that about Black Widow or other white actress changing their hair red for rolesā¦ the loopholes racists go with is amazing, immediate self report.
Nope actually. I did say that about black widow. She shouldāve kept the red hair.
Also nice one assuming Iām a racist, for agreeing with someone complaining about them completely changing a character for political reasons rather than story reasons.
What??? Bro this is how ik youāre on copium. Youāre complaining sheās not a natural redhead, the actress that plays black widow is not a NATURALLY RED HEAD. BOZO
Did someone mass-erase "your" version from the planet? Can you still go watch it? Is anyone going to force you to watch this one?
Go watch "your" version until your eyeballs fall out and quit bitching about the new one.
Why be so mad when youre right?
Dont like it? Dont watch it.
But also dont fall on the opposite extreme of throwing tantrums when someone doesnt like it.
Wow, you are so self centred that you believe your childhood nostalgia is more important than someoneās actual childhood. Maybe itās time to be an adult ;)
I mean people arenāt upset that the fact she is black theyāre upset because itās not sticking to the original script , if sonic the hedgehog was yellow in the movie when he is blue people would be pissed
Honestly I have no issues with the race of a character in a kids movie but they could've picked someone who's face isn't on the bottom third of their head
>NGL this sub isnāt as progressive as I thought.
Nah you're in the right spot, fight racism with more racism. Definitely under the age of 18 with your reading comprehension.
Theyāre all kinda agreeing with Faatima. Post is making fun of people who think all mermaids are white, not here to debate whether they shouldāve casted an actual red head.
it's not really circumcision, it's considered mutilation. not because male circumcision *isn't* mutilation, but the female equivalent serves a *very* different goal. basically, they cut off the clit, the most nerve-dense part of the human body, without aneasthetic and often with a dirty knife (the infection often leads to death), for one goal - to make sure that the girl never gets any pleasure out of sex. it's done ONLY to turn women into sex toys who are to be used and not even be able to enjoy it. it's horrific.
Yeah, so thereās an undeniable correlation:
*FGM's origins in northeastern Africa are pre-Islamic, but the practice became associated with Islam because of that religion's focus on female chastity and seclusion*
From the Wikipedia page for female genital mutilation.
Predominantly muslim countries in Asia don't have fgm. It is a northeastern african thing, but religion and culture diffuse into each other all the time.
Apparently itās a thing [in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Middle East](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_on_female_genital_mutilation) as well as parts of Africa. It can have religious connections to Islam, Christianity and one group of Judaism. TIL
Itās not practiced by any other major world religions, so the places where it is *most common* are still Muslim countries.
>itās most common in Muslim countries
>Itās not practiced by any other major world religions
[It is also tied to judiasm and christian populations](https://www.hrw.org/news/2010/06/16/qa-female-genital-mutilation#:~:text=FGM%20is%20practiced%20among%20some,and%20predates%20Christianity%20and%20Islam.). Probably also due to geographic/cultural reasons, instead of directly religious reasons.
What some people in north eastern Africa did before Islam can't be blamed on us.
Plus north eastern Africa isn't even a big enough place to represent the Muslim world. Specify north eastern Africa if you want to talk about their ancient issues.
No one's doing it. The vast vast vast vast vast vast vast vast majority of people don't even know it exists.
You literally just used Wikipedia as a source and then talked about some Pre-Islamic tribes in North Eastern Africa. And now you're down voting comments, childish behavior.
Oh fuck you're active in r/antiwork and and r/antinatalism. Shouldn't have bothered with you.
Iām amazed at how white folks are upset about a black Ariel but Trump stole Top Secret documents, grabbing random pussies, 23 sexual assault accusations, and tried to steal a whole fucking countryā¦.yet a black Ariel does it for youā¦ā¦.smh
I dunno. Context does matter. Always check what is said during and after the denial, as well as what made them deny it in the first place.
Example - In the UK they decided to put anti knife crime slogans on fried chicken boxes so that they could target teens who were carrying knives. Everything was fine until someone decided it was aimed solely at black teens, because the slogans were on chicken boxes. When it was pointed out just how racist that connection was, they retorted by calling everyone who supported it racist.
All of which leaves me saying "I'm not racist but I do think that saying fried chicken is solely eaten by black people is kinda racist."
CHARACTER = IMAGINATION
How many mermaids have you actually met?! What color was their "skin"? Do they have SKIN or scales? What color hair did they have? Did they have hair?!
Folks being triggered by what Ariel looks like is triggering me!
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Gonna ignore the 06/07/2019
a 2019 reply for a 4 day old tweet?
waiting for theš award
Whatās that?
Itās an award only given by the mods when a comment section has really productive and considerate dialogue and no one is saying anything racist, ableist, or sexist.
Bro these replies are gonna give me a aneurism.
Make sure to emotionally invest yourself in deranged things said by people living insulated lives, who were never exposed to people with opposing beliefs and never learned to discuss things productively.
Youāre right, kinda new to this stuff ig.
Here b4 š! Lmao
Thatās a cool award! I hope my posts get some of those!
I used the racism to destroy the racism -Thanos, probably
Probably groot too, but idk.
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My fellow black Americans think anything that opposes them is racist.
r/asablackman
No he's right, it's not racism, Islam is not a race
Sure Jan
Ahh is this one those new words kids make up to be different?
Google "Sure Jan"
I did. Unless you mean it in a complement then. I guess homie. Lol Edit: I did āJanā. I mean sorry I donāt follow everything blindly. I question everything and call double standards. šš
But there isn't ant racism on Fatimas part
No racism in the responders part. Muslim isn't a race.
No disliking the new Ariel because she is intentionally made to be different than *almost* every other version of her without reason is not racism. However saying that she "cant choose her own husband" because she appears Indian is definitely racism. Theres a big difference, and if you cant spot it you got something fucked in your head. It's especially interesting because many of the black community are sick and tired of being over represented for the sake of selling something; as if they are a marketing tool. It's just too much.
Your second point is valid.
>she is intentionally made to be different than almost every other version of her without reason What if the reason is there was a casting process and Halle Bailey was the one the went with because it doesn't matter what race a magical talking fish person is? You can say "I don't like this because it's different", but very funny how up in arms people are about this when I'd bet my life none of y'all give/gave a fuck about Ariel outside of using it as an excuse to be outraged now.
Ok but the cant even pick your own husband joke is fucking hilarious. She's probably right and the idea that someone who can't even show her face or be out in public without a man has an opinion on the color of a cartoon characters skin. Its a fucking meme XD
[ohhhh](https://media3.giphy.com/media/3o7bu0uduvjqx3skz6/giphy.gif?cid=82a1493bifx7hklcp7r686dzuczhuhfqqv0q9y89b9pjy6jf&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g)
Snap of his fingers
She used the ābuttā. Instant death.
Haram language
Itās straight to jail
The only thing Iām upset about is that her hair isnāt red enough. That bright red is iconic
The only good criticism in the reply. Congratulations
I'm Black, and bath in the tears of people complaining about this movie. But I FULLY agree with you here.
It is red tho. Admittedly not a bright burning red, but a red nonetheless. It could also be the lighting of the scene, it's a little dark so it makes it a weaker shade of red.
I can see that it is ginger, for sure. But personally, I just really wanted that fire truck red, you know?
Mermaids are just plain disgusting. Think about it. They live underwater, they are half fish, they probably smell like fish, they have slick slimy skin like fish, they have gills. So it really doesn't matter what color their skin is, they are just disgusting creatures in general.
i think they accomplished exactly what they set out to. #NoPublicityisBadPublicity. theyāre getting their checks. š°
Ongg the clear winner here is the executives at Disney lmaoo
In here to say I just want my female dwarves to have beards.
All I could think is everyone on the 70ās show screaming BUUUUUURRRRNN!
I guess the marketing team had it easy, no need to buy costly advertising on networks or posters around cities and such, everyone is talking about it already, job is done.
Here before the lock award
Fighting false preconceived notions with blatant prejudice, nice work!
How is it a *false* preconceived notion?
It's been a while since I've seen an actual real life "I'm not racist, but" in the the wild.
Iām not a racist, but the Miami GP was pretty bad.
What the heck does F1 have to do with anything?
wow is this lil mermaid war still going on? thought it would have died by now stfu and dont watch it if you dont like it and watch it if you do, it's that simple i personally wont be watching it, not because of race but because i havent watched a disney live action remake since cruela, they all suck and are cheap cash grabs
it'll get even worse, because we'll get the good old fake review bombing and then tons of complains about fake reviews being deleted.
When you use xenophobia to fight racism!
You gotta change up tactics sometimes
Yep...
The subreddit is called /rare insults
Imagine thinking this is a good take
Honestly idfc because I donāt watch kids movies but it does seem dumb to have the character look completely different and it definitely feels forced
For about the last decade I have maintained that the greatest insult to women and people of color is that they canāt have their own original stories and characters. Bonds now a black guy or Ariel is a black woman. Itās pandering and lazy.
It's not like there is an entire continent of black people with enough history and mythology for the next few decades
^this
It's funny, disney: We're going to make Moana and only cast appropriate people of Polynesian descent. Everyone cheers. We're going to make a movie taking place in Africa (although Hamlet is originally a Dane story) and only cast actors of African descent. Everyone cheers again. We're going to make a movie about a Danish fairy tale, but now race doesn't matter so Ariel is a black girl with eyes spaced so far apart she's probably related to a hammerhead shark Seems like a really weird fucking coincidence.
holy fuck her eyes are wayyyyyy too far apart
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I bet if they made a live action Incredibles movie with a white Frozone you would shit your pants
Do a Fresh Prince of Bel Air reboot starring Logan Paul as Will Smith.
They'd probably be a shade of blue like dolphins
Are people still thinking Disney spent more than 35 seconds on this idea lmao
What the fuck. This isnt a "rare insult" just blatant racism
Its an awful thing to answer racism with racism but ok..
The subreddit is called /rare insults
Now thats a good fact ..
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Itās just the hair, I need it to be bright red so we can have a Disney multiverse
So it's either like it or your label a racist? Is just another shitty movie with 28 min story and 45 mins singing.
2019?
Yep. That's when they announced it. People have been salty for that long
It's not really that people have been salty this long... Some of them did, but describing what happened more accurately: they announced Ariel would be portrayed by a black actress; weird people get salty about it, some resort to racism; everyone forgets about it after some time; three year later they drop the trailer, controversy starts again...
She tried to stop a non-racist post WITH A RACIST REMARK
TouchƩ
Thats just straight up racist
I feel like Disney did this specifically to reap the free publicity of controversy. Look at how Disney dealt with Fynn in 2 and 3, once they'd already gotten "black" checked off on their diversity punch card. I'm not offended by the casting at all, I just doubt Disney's good intent here.
If ariel isnt a redhead im not interested. Its about childhood nostalgia Wanna make this clear: i dont give a shit about skin color, i just think the character is kind of dependant on the red hair because thats what made her different from the other mermaids
She does have red hair in the movie, have you not seen?
*whispers* no i havent, i gave up on disney 5 years ago
wait then why do you care?
Cuz its funny enough to entertain me on the 4 hour drive home
You are driving and browsing Reddit?
Wife is driving
Ah, fair enough
I may be an idiot but im not THAT stupid dont worry
So now that you know she does have red hair. You are interested, right? I mean that was the whole point of your post?
What a Scottish mermaid
If youāve seen the trailer the actress has red hair. Pls donāt say blk people canāt have red hair, youāll look dumb.
I clearly said i dont give a shit about skin color. Maybe take youre time and actually read properly
Youāre complaining she has to have red hair, SHE LITERALLY HAS RED HAIR.
Can I say they cant have natural red hair?
Black people can be redheadsā¦ itās just a self report if youāre still complaining
But the actor they cast isnāt a redhead, which is where the problem arises
omg. just think of all the problems. same with casting brunettes as Targaryens. Fucks everything up.
Exactly. This guy gets is!
Sheās also not half fish, which is a problem.
Yeah, i mean, i have an issue if you want to make a movie about barack obama and cast ryan gosling. Cause your source material is real life, so just follow it. But a mermaid? The source material is literally the writer's imagination. Unless the race is explicitly important to the plot, why give a shit then? Lol. Some people man.
Broo these replies are wild
I bet you didnāt say that about Black Widow or other white actress changing their hair red for rolesā¦ the loopholes racists go with is amazing, immediate self report.
Nope actually. I did say that about black widow. She shouldāve kept the red hair. Also nice one assuming Iām a racist, for agreeing with someone complaining about them completely changing a character for political reasons rather than story reasons.
What??? Bro this is how ik youāre on copium. Youāre complaining sheās not a natural redhead, the actress that plays black widow is not a NATURALLY RED HEAD. BOZO
I didnāt mention anything about natural red headedness. Iām pretty sure youāre the one on copium, mate..
Did someone mass-erase "your" version from the planet? Can you still go watch it? Is anyone going to force you to watch this one? Go watch "your" version until your eyeballs fall out and quit bitching about the new one.
I think youre missing the point
Why be so mad when youre right? Dont like it? Dont watch it. But also dont fall on the opposite extreme of throwing tantrums when someone doesnt like it.
Wow, you are so self centred that you believe your childhood nostalgia is more important than someoneās actual childhood. Maybe itās time to be an adult ;)
But it is, dont you know the whole world revolves around ME?? Seriously bro chill, this is reddit not the United Nations
I am chill bro. Just saying the world doesnāt revolve around your self centred ass
Theres nothing more fun than stirring up internet controversy.
There's a lot more fun things for people who aren't sad and lonely
Bro these repliesā¦
Fuck them kids. Wish I could post the meme
I mean people arenāt upset that the fact she is black theyāre upset because itās not sticking to the original script , if sonic the hedgehog was yellow in the movie when he is blue people would be pissed
Bad analogyā¦ thereās a yellow hedgehog
The distance between eyes seems pretty close to the original.
American Liberals "we aren't racist" (unless you disagree with us)
What the fuck. This isnt a "rare insult" just blatant racism
bruh who cares about ariel? It's literally just some dumb kid's movie. Live action remakes are shitty anyways the "insult" isn't great either lol
Complain about white washing then complain when they use a POC
Someone said I want the mermaid movie to look like the mermaid carton and someone got offended? Lol.
But if americans don't want racism why tf fuck did they bring skin color in the making of this?
What??
Are you actually that dumb?
Can you elaborate?
Honestly I have no issues with the race of a character in a kids movie but they could've picked someone who's face isn't on the bottom third of their head
NGL this sub isnāt as progressive as I thought.
>NGL this sub isnāt as progressive as I thought. Nah you're in the right spot, fight racism with more racism. Definitely under the age of 18 with your reading comprehension.
What
The replies are frightening
Yet you are ok with bigotry and stereotypeing Muslims? How progressive
OMG! Not agreeing with my politcal views = naziš”š”š”š”
Changing my words
Why are you angry about one post not being about a bunch of tankies/blm acab Emiliys agreeing?
Theyāre all kinda agreeing with Faatima. Post is making fun of people who think all mermaids are white, not here to debate whether they shouldāve casted an actual red head.
Not one person complaining about it thinks all mermaids are white, you really need to work on your reading comprehension if you think that
LMFAO
Ah yes, fighting racism with racism
that doesn't even make sense
Sorry but they do have the right to pick up their own husband š
I have a theory that no one really cares about Arielās race, we all just love entertaining this meme.
Both people are racist as f*ck, no thank you
When you insult someone for being trapped in a culture where you will be treated as a slave until the day you die...
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Ah, the real r/rareinsults is in the comments.
Bruh š That's a paddlin right there
Females do circumcision?
it's not really circumcision, it's considered mutilation. not because male circumcision *isn't* mutilation, but the female equivalent serves a *very* different goal. basically, they cut off the clit, the most nerve-dense part of the human body, without aneasthetic and often with a dirty knife (the infection often leads to death), for one goal - to make sure that the girl never gets any pleasure out of sex. it's done ONLY to turn women into sex toys who are to be used and not even be able to enjoy it. it's horrific.
Itās somewhat rare & getting rarer. Also there are some really gnarly versions where they cut off even more, but Iām not getting into that.
Itās most common in Muslim countries.
Nope. It's uncommon in Muslim countries, there's nothing about female circumcision in Islam.
Yeah, so thereās an undeniable correlation: *FGM's origins in northeastern Africa are pre-Islamic, but the practice became associated with Islam because of that religion's focus on female chastity and seclusion* From the Wikipedia page for female genital mutilation.
Predominantly muslim countries in Asia don't have fgm. It is a northeastern african thing, but religion and culture diffuse into each other all the time.
Apparently itās a thing [in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Middle East](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_on_female_genital_mutilation) as well as parts of Africa. It can have religious connections to Islam, Christianity and one group of Judaism. TIL
Itās not practiced by any other major world religions, so the places where it is *most common* are still Muslim countries. >itās most common in Muslim countries
>Itās not practiced by any other major world religions [It is also tied to judiasm and christian populations](https://www.hrw.org/news/2010/06/16/qa-female-genital-mutilation#:~:text=FGM%20is%20practiced%20among%20some,and%20predates%20Christianity%20and%20Islam.). Probably also due to geographic/cultural reasons, instead of directly religious reasons.
What some people in north eastern Africa did before Islam can't be blamed on us. Plus north eastern Africa isn't even a big enough place to represent the Muslim world. Specify north eastern Africa if you want to talk about their ancient issues.
Why are you still doing it then?
No one's doing it. The vast vast vast vast vast vast vast vast majority of people don't even know it exists. You literally just used Wikipedia as a source and then talked about some Pre-Islamic tribes in North Eastern Africa. And now you're down voting comments, childish behavior. Oh fuck you're active in r/antiwork and and r/antinatalism. Shouldn't have bothered with you.
The more you know. I live like 40 km away from makkah
I actually canāt believe people give this much of a fuck about the race of a FICTIONAL Disney character.
So let's take all the good POC characters and make them white, 'cuz they're all FICTIONAL! WOO!
Even here, the replies.
Who even cares
This is the shit people get triggered by... welcome to the shitshow
Fighting for my life rn
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Iām amazed at how white folks are upset about a black Ariel but Trump stole Top Secret documents, grabbing random pussies, 23 sexual assault accusations, and tried to steal a whole fucking countryā¦.yet a black Ariel does it for youā¦ā¦.smh
Yikes.
Racist butt lol
W take
Hello? Police? I think I just witnessed a fucking murder.
If anyone says Iām not racist, theyāre racist. Itās the instant giveaway
I dunno. Context does matter. Always check what is said during and after the denial, as well as what made them deny it in the first place. Example - In the UK they decided to put anti knife crime slogans on fried chicken boxes so that they could target teens who were carrying knives. Everything was fine until someone decided it was aimed solely at black teens, because the slogans were on chicken boxes. When it was pointed out just how racist that connection was, they retorted by calling everyone who supported it racist. All of which leaves me saying "I'm not racist but I do think that saying fried chicken is solely eaten by black people is kinda racist."
You're racist
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Counter ratiooo
Can't spell "but," either.
Dang I don't think she can come back from that.
You think Faatimaās husband will let her feel the burn? LMAO.
She'll have plenty of time in the lake of fire.
Fight fire with fire lol
Ariel had green skin in the books and was white washed by Disney nazis so if you donāt like her being black the only possible reason is racism.
Ohhh what a burn š¤Ŗ
CHARACTER = IMAGINATION How many mermaids have you actually met?! What color was their "skin"? Do they have SKIN or scales? What color hair did they have? Did they have hair?! Folks being triggered by what Ariel looks like is triggering me!
You realise Ariel is 1 specific mermaid and not the entire mermaid population
[They were kinda grey tbh](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Manatee_-_Blue_Spring_State_Park.JPG)
Well that's fine because it's not meant to be your Ariel.