September 15, 2022

Love this!

 

In case you're unfamiliar with the context, people on the far right (aka racists) are up in arms about Disney's casting of Halle Bailey in their new live-action version of The Little Mermaid, because as everyone knows, mermaids are, um, white, and um, having a mermaid of color is "woke" or some shit.  A brief piece from Rolling Stone summarizes the "controversy."  The writer points out that in the source story, the folk tale recorded by Dane Hans Christian Andersen, the mermaid "has green skin" (whoopsie).

 

NB: Click on the image above to go to the original Twitter thread, which has a couple more images and some amusing comments.

P.S. There's also this: