You have to account for the propaganda regarding Ukraine.
24/7 the people are being forced to support Ukraine. No such propaganda effort in regards Syria (who are white btw).
So I would recommend thinking a bit more, and also educating a bit more, otherwise you will fall for the trap set for you.
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Beware the blue lies, guys. The blue lies are killing us.
Reading a bit on Mandel's history, even though it's not half as interesting now that he lost the Senate primary to the other sleazebag opportunist, J.D Vance. It's a poor choice of photoshopping that made Mandel's hands darker than in the original picture.
You can find pictures of OG right-wing terrorist Timothy McVeigh in uniform standing next to black squad mates. It means nothing.
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House-passed legislation to erase Robert E. Lee Day and Confederate Memorial Day from a list of Louisiana holidays has been approved 28-4 by the state Senate. https://t.co/ZMXoueXiUQ
Not having read or heard of the book until just now, I wonder if she's representing it accurately. I found this response from the author to similar critiques and he is pretty adamant that racial composition of the population wasn't his concern.
The Li'l Puppet and I were marveling at the stupidity yesterday.
One, she can travel anywhere there's an ocean on Earth, so even if you insist that she wash up on a Scandinavian coast, she could be from literally anywhere. The first humangs came from Africa, so why not the first mermaids? Two, she spends an awful lot of time sitting on a small rocky island and singing her heart out, so she gets plenty of UV. Three, nobody needs any of these fucking live-action versions of Disney animated films in the first place, and the more identical to the original, the more fucking boring and useless they become. Four, when has any Disney film, animated or live action, kept true to a fucking story in the first place? Five ...
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As I know it’s coming, I can only hope the live action Lilo & Stitch pisses at least a few people off for dumb reasons. Maybe they’ll keep the scenes where Lilo harasses the tourists after they treat her poorly.
Also, um, in the original story one could make the argument that The little Mermaid is pasty white because she lacks a soul and is the embodiment of magical sea foam, so how dare they make her brown, they should make her white to show her lack of soul… er wait.
Gotta be honest, I figured our dystopian future would include horrors like deepfake revenge porn and AI bot catfishing, but I was not expecting "using AI to whitewash diverse movie characters."