Speaker 1: You're listening to comedy central. Wow. You know, every time
Speaker 1: one of these like Internet outrage things happens about which
Speaker 1: character is being played by whom and people get angry.
Speaker 1: I would get it if people had good faith arguments,
Speaker 1: but you can tell that people are just using these
Speaker 1: moments to disguise discriminatory idea and like and like, you know,
Speaker 1: racism that they hold is something. You know, it's it's
Speaker 1: like it's your thing. You know, people are gonna act like,
Speaker 1: Oh no, the Little Mermaid, I'm here because I'm a
Speaker 1: little mermaid purest. I will come up with all these
Speaker 1: bullshit answers. They'll be like, you know, you look at
Speaker 1: the history of the Little Mermaid, and I'm sorry, the
Speaker 1: history of the little you mean the imagination of the
Speaker 1: Little Mermaid. Yeah, I mean, if you look at it,
Speaker 1: if you if you were a fan, you would have
Speaker 1: known that Disney had long created black mermaids. Like they
Speaker 1: did this. They spin off all their movies. They've had
Speaker 1: tons of them. They had like a Black Mermaid. She'd
Speaker 1: sign language. Used to be a cartoon when we were kids.
Speaker 1: People don't care about it. They're like it's never it's
Speaker 1: never happen. It's just look, here's the thing. It's not
Speaker 1: about racist just about realism. I'm sorry, what? And then
Speaker 1: it's ironic that they try and use representation as the argument.
Speaker 1: The other way around, you know. So they will say
Speaker 1: it's it's not about representation. It shouldn't. Who Cares? Who
Speaker 1: plays the role? Oh, that matters is the best person
Speaker 1: gets the job. And it's like, have you heard Hanny
Speaker 1: Baby Sing? Have you heard her sing? You the best person? Like,
Speaker 1: who do you think they got? You Think Disney is
Speaker 1: just out there in the street, like you come, let's go.
Speaker 1: You think they play games like that? It is the
Speaker 1: best person for the job. You're angry about who the
Speaker 1: best person was. That's what you're angry about. And it's like, no,
Speaker 1: but but the Little Mermaid. She means soon and I
Speaker 1: don't deny that. I don't deny that. It must have
Speaker 1: been amazing for any redheaded little girl to see the
Speaker 1: Little Mermaid. It must have been amazing. It's a beautiful experience.
Speaker 1: But the movie is still there, you know, it's not gone.
Speaker 1: You can't not watch it. It hasn't been burned. It
Speaker 1: is still there. You can still watch it and you
Speaker 1: can enjoy it. I you all the time. It's not
Speaker 1: going anywhere. It's like you get so angry, but what
Speaker 1: about the little girls with red hair? Who Won't? Who
Speaker 1: won't what see themselves in what a Disney cartoon and like, like,
Speaker 1: are you being serious right now? You you have the
Speaker 1: princess and brave she she was redhead. Remember her, all right,
Speaker 1: you have you have Anna from from frozen. All right.
Speaker 1: You have a little kid from up like pulls off
Speaker 1: the helmets and like the head does the thing. It's
Speaker 1: the cutest thing. Remember. That's red hands. There's tons, tons
Speaker 1: of other characters. There are more redhead Disney like stars,
Speaker 1: like women, whose stars in the in the franchise, than
Speaker 1: black women. But now you're gonna make it seem like
Speaker 1: it's and it's not, like one should be against the other.
Speaker 1: There's no need. You have the Little Mermaid. It's fun.
Speaker 1: Now you've got to the pling, the real version of it.
Speaker 1: That's that's fun. Don't make it about realism. That it's guys.
Speaker 1: It's under the sea. There's a crab, there's a crab
Speaker 1: that is gonna talk and you're worried about this element.
Speaker 1: People are like, well, I just I just think it
Speaker 1: should be. It's all the things and then, and then
Speaker 1: I love when people go, Oh yeah, so if you
Speaker 1: don't care, then how would you feel if the Black
Speaker 1: Panther was played by a white guy? I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: the difference here is the Black Panther blackness is central
Speaker 1: to the character's identity, like literally, literally, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. It's like literally, that is the whole point
Speaker 1: of the thing. And, by the way, if you're gonna
Speaker 1: bring a whe guy who's gonna be like Vibrainian and
Speaker 1: bring him, I want to see that guy just the fun.
Speaker 1: Just bring that guy just for the fun of it.
Speaker 1: Let's see what happens. There many people who haven't seen
Speaker 1: themselves on screen. You're gonna get angry. You'RE gonna get
Speaker 1: angry because now somebody who's in a wheelchairs playing this role.
Speaker 1: You'RE gonna get angry because somebody who's black is now
Speaker 1: playing that role. You'RE gonna be it's the original is
Speaker 1: still there. There are many parts that are still out there.
Speaker 1: It's not like there is nothing left. It's like there's
Speaker 1: one movie in the world and there's one story and
Speaker 1: there's the only way you can tell it. There are
Speaker 1: many calm down, or at the very least, the very least,
Speaker 1: should get them to meet with Ursula, and then she'd
Speaker 1: take their voices away. Connect until somebody kisses you. Yeah, don't,
Speaker 1: don't come back ready. Think it look so angry then
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