Internet Right Outraged That Disney Doesn't Make New Snow White Literally About White Supremacy

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  1. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    Disney has done it again, race swapped for no reason, except this time her whiteness is essential to her character. Remember, we can race swap Bond because it's not essential to his character. That was the argument then, what's the excuse now? How will Europeans feel about their fairy tales culturally appropriated? The dwarfs can no longer be dwarfs because Peter Dinklage doesn't understand that fairy tale dwarfs are not the same thing as dwarfism.
    https://nypost.com/2023/07/17/disneys-live-action-snow-white-takes-wokeness-to-absurd-new-low/

    Mod Edit: I edited the title
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  2. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    Make her hair white, like Storm.
    Problem solved.
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  3. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    Little people stopped being called dwarves because of the fairy tale connotation.
    Little people have no problem playing dwarves, trolls, alien fetuses, or whatever else the role requires.

    Actually, there was a horror Snow White in the early 00's with Sigourney Weaver as the witch stepmother where the magic mirror talked because it had a Satanic demon inside, and the dwarves were regular sized guys.
    The resize thing has been done.
    No one complained.
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  4. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    Nope, she’s described as as having skin as white as snow.
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  5. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    The dwarves aren't called Doc, Sleepy, Dopey, Grumpy, Happy, Bashful and Sneezy in the French fairy tale.
    Turns out you can fuck around with public domain stories.
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  6. tafkats

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    Then she should always be depicted as having albinism.
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  7. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    This is a reboot of Walt’s first animated film.
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  8. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    And?
    I can't take the Disney version and tinker with it, but Disney can.
    I can make my own Snow White so long as I change the dwarf names and don't have "whistle while you work" and "heigh-ho" as songs.
    See how it works?
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    No one is putting a gun to your head and forcing you to watch it. I probably won’t watch it either.

    You can always just pop in your DVD of the classic animated movie or the more recent one with caucasian Kirsten Stewart.

    Problem solved.
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  10. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    why isn't there a race baiting emoji here?

    I feel like we need one.
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  11. Diacanu

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    Re: The link in the op: I just gotta say, the whole New York Times vs New York Post/Washington Post vs Washington Times thing is like if Coke and Pepsi had evil opposites called Poke and Cepsi that if you drink them give you explosive shits.
    You've really got to be paying the fuck attention.
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    Tererune Troll princess and Magical Girl

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    Either re-animate Micheal Jackson's dead corpse to play snow white or find some other black lady who has vitilago. No one make any jokes about the dwarves singing vitiligoooooo at the beginning of their song because it is already running through my head.

    Anyway, let us actually get Laverne Cox to do this because I want to see a good CHUD meltdown. Let us just put Laverne Cox in every role until the CHUDs drown in the drool of their own nervous breakdowns.
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    I am 60 years old. In six decades, I have never seen a grown ass man so emotionally invested in a Disney movie. Why the fuck do you even care? and don't give me any shit about her skin color because previous to the 1970s mostly all actors were white playing other cultures. Before that, vaudeville had all white casts and painted their faces. prior to that, plays were performed by all male casts.

    Please, have a seat. Here's a cup of tea. Now. I'm going to tell you something and I think it's important that you list and really understand what I'm about to tell you. Just because current existence for humans is no longer as dangerous as it was when we were prey does not mean you should always be looking for a fight. You do not have to succumb to manufactured outrage. It's not healthy. Drink your tea and sit here a moment and just reflect on that.
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  14. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    make up your mind. much like little mermaid, you can't have it both ways.

    speaking of little mermaid, my Danish descended ass didn't care.

    (Also: "Walt's"? You're on first name basis now?)
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  15. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    I wonder if they'd dare go with the canonical ending, since "Walt's first animated film" mutilated the story he appropriated...



    on that note, there's nothing in the Grimm's original saying she's caucasian...

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    I'm more offended by all these shitty "live action" (LOL) Disney remakes.
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  17. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    So if The Princes and the Frog gets race swapped to a white girl, no problem then?
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    WTF are you talking about? instead of a frog, a turtle or a snake is in the story? Who cares? if the frog is blue instead of green? who cares?
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    So I was curious and checked on the actress, Rachel Zegler.

    She is half Polish and half Colombian. And most Colombians are either partially or fully descended from Spanish.

    So her ancestry might be almost entirely European. Is that not white enough for people? I think this is more fake outrage over a non-issue.

    If your issue is with the skin tone of the actress then would you be okay with a pale white Korean or Japanese girl playing the role?
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  20. Diacanu

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    *Googles*
    That's what the diaper soaking is about??!?!
    She's milky tea!
    I get darker when I tan!
    FF made it sound like she was Lupita Nyong’o!!
    The right-wing bubble sucks so hard. :facepalm:
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  21. Shirogayne

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    If I didn't know Rachel Ziegler was part-Columbian from her casting in West Side Story, I never would have assumed she was Latina. :marathon:

    She's been pegged for this role for years so the fact you're foaming at the mouth now, I can only assume Joe Rogan has decided to rile up his base since no one cares about the black mermaid anymore.

    Boy, do I have news for you about French Algerians, Indian and Pakistani Brits and the entire neighborhood of Brixton, London.

    You better sit down :lol:

    Peter Dinklage asked for little people to be depicted with respect and dignity. That Disney chose to erase them entirely is on Disney, not him. :shrug:
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  22. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    No I’m talking about the black princess.
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  23. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    Did you not read the OP, leaked photos surfaced, that is why it's being discussed online. Disney's stock has dropped by 50% over the past two years, they keep having flop after flop, but sure, keep pissing of your customers.
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    What about them? Are you suggesting I'd be upset if Brad Pitt was replaced with Will Smith?

    Yes, I'm showing my age.

    What about ... Ethan Peck being replaced with ... wait. google says he's 37. So ... too old.

    Oh, here we go Tom Holland. he's ... 27 ish. Shameik moore is 28ish. I'd be ok with that.

    Actually, I can't even say I'd be ok with it. The truth is, I wouldn't care.
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  25. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    Actually, due to quantum timey-wimey all the live-action Spider-Mens are white-washed remakes of Miles Morales.
    :nyer:
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    I actually googled separately "young black actors" and "young white actors". Then chose the two completely randomly because I never seldom remember names of people in movies. and I was as surprised as anyone to see how very nice those random choices coincided.
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    Christ, the right-wing are so het up about guys losing their dicks and FF and the rest of their simps are here doing it without any surgery.
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    I wonder what's happened over the past two years that would have challenged any company that derives substantial revenue from movie theatres and theme parks. :thinking:
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    Also, I absolutely LOVE romance novels. The main character of the book "The Duke and I" by Julia Quin is an English Duke in the early 1800s. In the book, a total white guy.

    But, the tv series (Bridgerton) wrote into the storyline that the main character is black.

    RickDeckard (I think, and I could be wrong) and I had a brief discussion about it last year or two years ago. and I said then that I didn't care that they "race swapped" the main character's race. I liked the book and I liked the tv show.

    I don't watch movies and tv or read books to reaffirm my race is at the top of the food chain. I just love stories.
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  30. Ten Lubak

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    I just have such a problem giving one single flying fuuuuuuuuuuck about all this "race swapping"

    I'm more of a judge a movie on whether it's actually good or not. And guess what - if I don't want to see it, I won't go see it! How fucking novel is that, literally nothing has inconvenienced me

    Like you already have a movie with a white Little Mermaid. Go enjoy that. Who gives a shit if there's a black one now, some people might like to see that and I'm not a big enough cunt to say "the movie is ruined because the main character used to be a different color, this should upset you and you shouldn't go see it!!"

    The whole thing is so self centered
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