matt walsh is right, we should base it off of what hans christian anderson intended, and since the little mermaid is based off of himself, we clearly need a gay man to play the little mermaid, this should surely appease matt walsh
Yeah, and both him and his prince are dressing romanticly, like Mickiewicz or Byron and they ramble around seaweeds or moors pondering their lost homeland to austrohungary empire.
I'm surprised Walsh wasn't calling for the original Little Mermaid story to be outright banned, it's literally a story about a fish TRANSITIONING into a woman.
Actually mermaids are not transitioning from fish into women. That would mean that the fish would no longer exist after the transition was complete. Mermaids are half-woman, half-fish.
Probably because they can’t project onto the little mermaid that she’s a pedophile which is 💯 the narrative the right wing is going with to justify their hate speech against trans people.
This is based on the real time Hans Christian Anderson saw a mermaid and he wrote in his journal "I saw a mermaid, she was super white yo." That's how the story came to be.
When I think of *"scientific accuracy"* and *"danish culture"* I think of talking crabs suddenly breaking into Caribbean-inspired songs under water. Impressive how the animated movie managed to capture those concepts so perfectly.
@@UberNoodle Well a lot of classic fairy tales was horror stories basically. Little mermaid die in the end because she is a foolish half beast half man. Cinderella had red hot iron shoes apply to the evil stepmother.
Gotta love how Matt Walsh focuses on Hans Christian Andersen's "personal experiences" and "scientific accuracy". Ariel was a princess of Atlantis (in Greek mythology, located south of Europe, much closer to Africa). She was one of the many daughters of King Triton (also Ancient Greek), and her main enemy was the sea witch Ursula (a gray-skinned octopus woman aesthetically modeled after the drag queen Divine) and her sidekicks Flotsam and Jetsam, two moray eels (in Europe only found in the Mediterranean Sea) that have electrical strike abilities (not a moray eel trait). Ariel's close sidekicks were a tropical fish named Flounder (the species of seabed-dwelling fish whose eyes migrate to one side of their bodies) and Sebastian, a hermit crab (only found in the tropics) with a Jamaican accent. A truly scientifically accurate version of The Little Mermaid would be boring, weird, and perhaps a bit terrifying.
So Danish people are not allowed to have a folk lore? Danish people are not allowed to have culture? Have you ever heard about HC Andersen? How you ever heard about The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen? No you haven't... because you are too busy pointing fingers and screaming "racist" at people, because it makes you feel better. This is cultural appropriation against the Danish people, and the Danish folk lore and Danish culture, which deserve preservation just as much as any other culture... unless you are racist off course?
@@diligencehumility6971 Who are you talking to? You’ve replied to my comment - which was about Hamilton. The musical. Also, I don’t think it matters what the mermaid’s skin colour is. Your comment is hysterical. Hans Christian Andersen is extremely well known. His fairy tales are probably the most familiar and, not unlike Shakespeare, these tales are told over and over. Often details are changed. Hand wringing about the colour of the mermaid’s skin seems moronic. Nobody is disrespecting HC Andersen. Nobody is disrespecting Danish culture. Especially not me.
@@joeyg448 They're just spamming their incoherent grievance rant on multiple prominent comments for attention. I don't think they realize the elevated level of rabid spite has caused their brain to leak out over, and I repeat, the color of human mixed into a fictional fish person. And you know it's the color of human that is the problem, because they didn't make this complaint the last time Disney heavily altered The Little Mermaid. It's animated movie was a huge success with people like them, after all. Their grievances are artificial, an attempt to mock real harm in the world so they don't have to feel bad about hurting people. It's just sad and childish, honestly.
@@UsenameTakenWasTaken Ah. I should’ve realised that was the case. I get an email alert when someone replies to a comment I’ve written so I assumed they had read what I wrote. How tedious. Oh - “incoherent grievance” is an excellent description (as is ‘rabid spite’ - good writing). Weird claim though. Like Danish culture reaches its penultimate expression in Hans Christian Andersen. Obviously not consuming the excellent crime fiction coming out of Denmark. Racists are boringly predictable 🙄
He actually said "From a scientific perspective" when talking about a fantastical magical fish/human that defies scientific reality in practically every other aspect of it's (not even real) existence. If the human half of the mermaid had been pale blue or green or anything other than brown or black, I suspect it would be a safe bet that Matt wouldn't even feel the need to comment on it at all. But the actress is black... so... Matt practically suggests he'd rather she not have skin at all.
I thought he was going to mention (scientifically) Dugongs, a sort of fat dolphin that is sometimes said to be what sex-starved delirious sailors saw swimming beside their boat, tempting them. And dugongs are not African-American.
@@macroman52 If he pulls the thread long enough he'll eventually end up telling mermaids that if they don't like what he says they should just go back to their own biome.
Yeah. Getting into science (which he really shouldn't, he's just not bright) to explain how a mermaid is supposed to look? Seriously, she is something that can't exist, scientifically. And if she did, she wouldn't have breasts. Cause fish aren't mammals. So, a magical, mythological creature can have any skin color at all. In fact, I think she was green, originally.
Right wing talking heads just say words assuming none of their supporters are smart enough to research things for themselves from sources that are legitimate scientific sources with data that can be verified from other legitimate scientific sources. When the right wing says “do your own research” what they mean is research what QAnon nutjobs say on this subject regardless of the fact that none of those sources can be verified or reproduced with similar results.
I mean, I won't lie. A horror version of Little Mermaid where Ariel is a lust-obsessed, translucent skeleton monster pursuing Prince Eric across land and sea sounds awesome and is absolutely a movie that I would watch...
The original little mermaid is public domain so anyone can make a little mermaid movie as long as it’s not too close to the Disney version. A lot more stuff would be public domain too if it weren’t for Disney. Look up the copyright extension act of 1999.
Matt Walsh: "Mermaids shouldn't be black, they should be white. SCIENTIFICALLY SPEAKING. Actually, they shouldn't really be white, they should be transparent." Okay, then why weren't you mad at a white mermaid?
Even that's not 100% true. Many deep sea creatures has dark pigmentation, not all are transparent or translucent. Anglerfish and sharks that live in deep waters have dark pigmentation.
you think he was being serious? I mean come on, they guy is jokingly saying he would watch a horrific mermaid film and you believe him? he says a lot I dont agree with, but if the left needs to go after everything even obvious jokes then...
@@AxeManOfSuburbia James and skull. Please tell me you're both aware of his extremely bad mood setting with his "jokes". He sounds and looks like the same whenever he does a thing. He might as well be a transphobic robot that's not capable of showing any level of human emotion. Pretty hard to tell when he's serious or not... Just saying lol. The beard also helps hide his facial expressions... Also his beard looks like shiz lol.
Evidence of racial equality in 90s Hollywood: The studio had no faith in Bad Boys because they felt no one might want to watch two black guys in the lead roles (the movie was originally for Jon Lovitz and Dana Carvey... Imagine how bad that would have been). Vin Diesel couldn't get cast in the 90s. He was too light to be black, too dark to be white and not quite hispanic enough. He ended up financing his own feature film as writer, director and lead (about his own experiences about being unable to get cast due to his mixed race), and that's what got him the attention of Spielberg, who cast him in Saving Private Ryan. Even in the 2000s, the studio didn't know who to cast opposite Will Smith for Hitch. They felt going full interracial with a white actress was too taboo. But if they cast a black actress, it wouldn't appeal to white audiences. And that's why they cast Eva Mendes. Not dark enough to alienate white audiences, and not white enough to upset racist audiences. Will was the most bankable star and had the perfect public image at the time for a rom-com (hip, sexy, funny, charismatic, likable, etc), but studios still had to tiptoe around race.
Sounds like nonsense, blade??? Every Eddie Murphy movie ever made??? Come on... and who is "they" you keep talking about? Black actors werent taboo in the 90s.
@@brianbridges8124 Of course black actors weren't taboo in and of themselves. The 'taboo' aspect is the depiction of an interracial relationship onscreen and I'm referring to accounts of studio concerns at the time. Another example: Angelina Jolie and Denzel Washington in Bone Collector. They are a couple in the final scene. Studio was ok with them holding hands, but decided against depicting an onscreen kiss. Director Phillip Noyce discussed this in the director's commentary. Noyce was ok with it, as were the actors... Studio said no.
@@axelfoley133 no you mentioned bad boys, which isnt about interacial relationships, it's just two black cops... nobody thought that was taboo at the time. Black actors were getting plenty of work in the 90s. The interracial thing..... maybe I can see a small amount of the production companies being unsure of that because of racism. But the idea that people of colour are underrepresented and are only getting work in the last 10- 15 years is an insane idea that I've heard many people put forward. Good stories don't need to change skin colour, because a good story resonates regardless of race, which ironically is the type of world wokeists want, but on the other hand, they want to make a point of changing skin colour in remake movies for no other reason than racial reasons which only serves to prolong the racism in society.
Just like they say what Jesus would say, or believe. If Jesus came back together. Conservative Christians would crucify him and call him an Anarcho Commie degenerate. 🤣
Same with Dave Rubin who the right wing claims to speak for all gay men and he’s useful to the right as a token gay similar to Candice Owens is their token black who will affirm their conformation bias and regurgitate their racist tropes and justify these beliefs.
So Danish people are not allowed to have a folk lore? Danish people are not allowed to have culture? Have you ever heard about HC Andersen? How you ever heard about The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen? No you haven't... because you are too busy pointing fingers and screaming "racist" at people, because it makes you feel better. This is cultural appropriation against the Danish people, and the Danish folk lore and Danish culture, which deserve preservation just as much as any other culture... unless you are racist off course?
Tip for life: if you don't think *ADAPTATIONS* should have the artistic license to deviate from the original, don't watch the animated film because it deviated in *CRUCIAL* details from the original including the ending. Tip for life 2: if go so far as to debate the scientific accuracy of the skin color of mythical creatures, you should, first, be made to explain first how Mermaids can *TALK* and *SING UNDER WATER.*
isn't that what MW said? That he doesn't care if you change the race, just dont change a white character to black/other and be ok with it and then if a black/other character is played by a white there's a problem? Change the race/sex all you want, just dont make it one sided.
@@jameeyg87 Nope, that's the trade-off he offered "if it all agreed" as if we don't already live in a world with plenty of examples in the oposite direction (hello Dr Strange, hello Gods of Egypt, hello, hello Ghost in the Shell). As if most movies are not white-led. It's a cop-out.
@@jameeyg87 Guess what? We don't have to agree or offer him or you any trade-off. If he *actually* doesn't care he could've said "who cares", instead of playing his audience's fantasies of white erasure. Conversely, if dude wants to be the guy whining about mythical creatures not being white, it's not my problem. Don't ask me to pretend it's not so. Don't ask me not to pretend his "if it all agreed" spiel is not a cop-out.
@@livelongandtroll9108 yes, and all those movies are met with controversy and anger when whites are in the role. What’s funny is that MW says he doesn’t care, just keep it fair which is way less than when it’s the other way with people celebrating when a minority gets a white role. For eg I would always want idris alba to be James Bond, but many times when it was speculated or said he would be a great bond, pundits would also add how a white bond was lame in the first place and how this is a white black thing.
@@jameeyg87 Remember when Matt Walsh's colleague at the Daily Wire, Jordan Peterson, lost it on twitter over the suggestion of Bond being played by Idris Elba?
This isn't a new low for him. His low is starting a harassment campaign against one of the best children's hospitals in the country which led to bomb threats, putting the lives of children in at risk.
Before that it was The Smurfs and Teletubbies among others. Sesame Street has always been a big one for them as well. Don’t forget the rage when a puppet with an accent is introduced. Add that to the M&M’s they got upset over and Mr. Potatohead. This party seems to be extremely preoccupied with childrens TV and movies, candy and toys while also promoting themselves as the party “of real men” who tan their balls. Their BS is all so ridiculous and absurd by the time it’s pointed out exactly HOW ridiculous and absurd they are on to the next manufactured cultural outrage.
@@tommydevine9993 Yeah, bigotry is a part of it. “Stranger Danger” is learned but also part of human psychology. The same thing happens in politics that happens in sports. The stuff you see surrounding it is very similar. Humans evolved as social animals for survival. Groups provide support, comfort and security among other things. This means anything different may potentially “harm” the group. Anything seen as a challenge must be defeated. If those challenges and fears are irrational then ANYTHING can be blamed as the cause and ANYTHING can be claimed as a solution. When all of this uproar is manufactured and ultimately driven by hubris, ego, narcissism, megalomania, delusions of grandeur or any other of the multitudes of human BS it gets out of control. At the very core of this is fear. It is primal. It is also effective when motivating people. When fear is primal you stop thinking and react. When fear is rational, like an imminent hurricane, agreement can be made on what steps can be taken to prepare or mitigate losses. When fears are irrational they start to become more subjective and lead to “going down the rabbit hole” becoming more extreme in trying to find a solution for something that does not exist. Apologies for the lengthy comment, I start typing and don’t realize I ramble.
As a parent of an African American daughter, I can tell you it means THE WORLD to have "a princess of color" in a Disney movie. They have been waiting for DECADES. I remember how excited I was to get a black haired ethnic barbie. What a racist propagandist! People like him are why the right is losing.
@@ctrekronertrekroner3931 they already did make a black mermaid 😂🤦♂️ you actually can’t see how little sense your comment makes but you’re acting like you’re so right. Being that un-self aware is a work of art.
emma made a good point about rubin. maybe he attacks his own so that "they" don't attack him. i suppose that's a credible defense mechanism. for a chickensh*t. applies to any of the right wing's "tokens".
Dave speaking out his revenge fantasies on all the people who called him by a girl's name when he was a kid. I will never understand how people can side with their bullies to try and spread their misery to others. This is so far beyond Stockholm syndrome, it's just masochism at this point.
@@brandonfitzgerald1457 My point is that his actions directly contribute to his own bullying. It's one thing to try and redirect to spare yourself, but this is a step beyond that.
What is hilarious to me is the idea that he is angry at the thought of a fictional character being black. Is it really the "under the sea" thing? A fictional character. Speaking of fictional characters why isn't he also upset that they made Jesus white? Or Trump a hero and a genius? Too soon?
He has like 4 or 5 kids though. You guys are also being trolled by a flippant and sarcastic remark he made in response to a viewer comment. Y'all are taking it seriously for some reason
@@michaelegan3522 this weirdo did an entire documentary asking people to define what a woman is. And the fact that he's married with kids makes this even weirder. Bc none of his comments or positions ever have real life examples. Which means the weirdo stuff the does online isn't even how he acts at home.
@@ribbrascal - this may shock you but Hollywood takes liberties all the time with characters. Thor is based on Norse mythology, but it never mentions him being an avenger. 🙄
Thing is, in Hans Christian Anderson's original, the mermaid was blonde. So they should be getting upset about the lack of accuracy in the Disney animated version if they're actually concerned with being true to the text. Clearly they won't because the issue isn't accuracy. It's racism, the rest is the peanut butter they've covered it in so the general public will swallow their bigotry
@@gwelwynn Nice strawman. Got any proof or will you just spout buzzwords? Disney's Ariel is a pale skinned redhed, and I'm not seeing that here. Not even griffy or yougnrippa like the race swapping.
There have been tons of on-stage adaptations of The Little Mermaid and other shows that have swapped ethnicity and even gender. Is he saying that if a school put on a play of the little mermaid, no non-white girls could play Ariel? Would he like to explain why to their parents? Besides it’s just an adaptation it’s not like it’s the ‘official’ version of the little mermaid. Not even the Disney is the ‘official’ version. They are not obligated to match what the book said word for word.
Grown man (Walsh) worried about cartoon mermaid being a black woman in live action movie. Bro. By the way, as a sailor that loves seafaring lore and a marine scientist, I can tell you that mermaid tales were based on sea animals. This includes manatees, harbor porpoises, and baluga whales. Also, mermaids lured sailors into the water to drown and eat men. Not all deep sea creatures are translucent. Never mind they came up to the surface to lure men over the side. Light is frequency. This means in water it's both reflected and refracted. Walsh is an idiot. Hailey Bailey is an amazing singer. See you all at the movies!
8:00 - 8:34 *OHH MY GOD.* I seriously can barely write this comment bc i just keep laughing so hard. He thinks we should be applying "science" to what a *magical mermaid* should look like. He wants kids to go see a pale, translucent, skeletal Disney princess. Oh my god he is an absolute freak
As proof that Sam doesn't screen IMs before he reads them, he once read off an IM, then named Jack Yerdadov as the author, realizing midway through that he was being had.
I grew up with all white fairy tales, and never gave it a second thought. It was just 🤷🏻♀️ Cinderella is blond, and little mermaid is a red head, Belle is a brunette, and they’re all white. I never thought it was a big deal. Then, a few years ago, my daughter saw Moana for the first time, and got really excited. She held up her hand and said that Moana looked just like her. We’re middle eastern, not Hawaiian, but for her, it was close enough. My daughter has always been a sensitive soul. I’m happy these different princesses are here now for all the other little girls who need them.
I never felt that way watching Jackie Chan movies, Xiaolin Showdown, Static Shock, the Torkaizer promo, or Kamen Rider or countless other non-white media. Or even white led shows. Sounds like your kids lack empathy.
@@MisterHeroman I watched and liked all the movies growing up, and didn’t care that they were mostly white either, just like you. But everybody is different, and have different needs, and different insecurities. My daughter was pleased to see a princess with skin like hers. It was an honest feeling from a 3 year old. Why do you have to be so negative about it?
The Little Mermaid 1989 animated version was based on Hans Christian Anderson's tale of The Little Mermaid, some of the major characters can still be referenced from the original tale. "They were beautiful children, but the youngest was the prettiest of them all. Her skin was as clear and delicate as a rose petal, and her eyes as blue as the deepest sea; but, like all the others, she had no feet and her body ended in a fish’s tail.” “When something like a black cloud passed between her and them, she knew that it was either a whale swimming over her head, or a ship full of human beings who never imagined that a pretty little mermaid was standing beneath them, holding out her white hands towards the keel of the ship.” “He fixed his coal-black eyes upon her so earnestly that she cast down her own and then became aware that her fish’s tail was gone and that she had as pretty a pair of white legs and tiny feet as any little maiden could have.” “Then the little mermaid raised her lovely white arms, stood on the tips of her toes, glided over the floor, and danced as yet no one yet had been able to dance.” “She saw her sisters rising out of the flood. They were as pale as she, but their hair no longer waved in the wind; it had been cut off.” -The Little Mermaid: Hans Christian Andersen Regardless of what other people think, the original tale that they based this animation on stated in several places that The Little Mermaid is white, and will be a white woman after her transformation. I have seen a lot of people say that Anderson never stated or hinted the mermaid's race anywhere, and yet here we are. Those people who said the race of the mermaid didn't matter probably never read the source material for Disney's animated version of the story.
@@whiterunguard1434 It is a fictional character written by a white author who clearly stated that his character's skin is what would be considered a white person. I've seen Japanese movie adaptation of a novel written by a British author, and everyone in that adaptation are clearly white with European decent, it's called respecting the material you took your story from. The person who needs to grow up is you because you clearly have no respect for the background and origins of the story, which is worse than a child really.
The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen, Denmark, which is where Hans Christian Andersen is buried, is black. Just saying. Perhaps someone could tweet a picture of this statue at him.
This video was so painful to watch! These people just judged a comment that Matt Walsh was reading as something he said and went at it for a long time acting like Matt Walsh was the one who said it. These folk are so ignorant! I can’t even watch the rest of this.
They aren't ignorant, they are deliberately dishonest. I've watched Matt's actual commentary about the Little Mermaid, and he directly said he didn't care if they wanted a black actress to play the Little Mermaid, he was pointing out the hypocrisy of the left demanding that whites cannot play black characters or voice non white characters in animations, then turning around and insisting that white characters like Ariel must be played by blacks. Seder and MR left that out in their attack on him.
I mean... If you look at some of the descriptors and details in the original story this was based on, there is context that supports the idea of rather than taking place in the seas of Denmark, the story of The Little Mermaid actually takes place in the ocean near the Danish West Indies... in the Caribbean... Making it arguable that the animated version was actually a whitewash of what the mermaid should have looked like to begin with. I mean... They even gave Sebastian that accent back in the 90s... One could assume that at least on *some* subconscious level they were at least vaguely aware.
If it were true to Anderson's story, the little sea-maid would die at the end and go into a three-hundred year purgatory as a 'daughter of the air'. “And we may even get there sooner,” whispered a daughter of the air. “Invisibly we float into the houses of men where children are, and for every day on which we find a good child that brings joy to its parents and deserves their love, our time of probation is shortened. The child does not know when we fly through the room; and when we smile with joy at the child’s conduct, a year is counted off from the three hundred; but when we see a naughty or a wicked child, we shed tears of grief, and for every tear a day is added to our time of trial.” There is a reason no one reads Anderson much any more. We won't even talk about The Red Shoes, which is genuinely horrifying!
Dave Ruben claims he would straight-up kill a teacher for misgendering his son, but when trans people or parents of trans kids take issue with misgendering, they’re considered irrational, too sensitive, and “snowflakes.” We’ve got a guy completely making up someone who would never exist that he wants to kill and then we’ve got people who face actual discrimination, are justified in their outrage, and still do not become violent in response and instead try to be an advocate for fairness and basic human decency.
The part where he talks about the scientific reasoning makes me wonder if there's a place where all this grifters go to laugh about it all. And to laugh about the people that support them. "They should be translucent" like that's pretty good dam laughable that people would support all that.
What Matt is saying is not that absurd. There should be no problem with any mythical creature being a different race. The problem is they feel like the need to do it every single time and it becomes the primary focus. That’s now what art should be about. You should be able to watch a movie without being overwhelmed with a political message. It should be about the story. People are rightfully annoyed by this constant push for identity politics.
That conversation took a total left turn out of nowhere, right in the middle. I honestly thought I accidentally tapped on another video, until I looked down at the title again.
Like whites haven’t been playing black face brown face for decades on the screen casting whites to play Mexicans,Indians,Asians, and who could ever forget that it still goes on
As asian, its kinda weird that the left and right wing have a big disagreement for a fictional character. My only grief is that Disney just make remake rather than make a new original story.
Yay for a black mermaid! Down with sick parents grooming their little boys to say they're girls. Anyone, parent or doctor, who gives a child puberty blockers should be put in prison, and I hope someday it starts to happen. Sick and evil!
Bass Reeves a black man was the original Lone Ranger but in the movies he was played by two different white men. And Cleopatra was a black woman from Egypt who was played in the movies by a white woman. Not to mention white Tarzan dropped in the middle of Africa with nothing but black people
The little mermaid is the best Disney movie ever. It’s so sad racists have ruined this whole experience of having the live action happen, I am excited despite not being a fan of the live action remakes for the first time 😢 I teared up when I saw the trailer because the film means so much to me. Honestly we shouldn’t let racists ruin it and should all go support the film in theaters when it releases, to show our support for Halle ♥️🧜🏽♀️🐠
So Danish people are not allowed to have a folk lore? Danish people are not allowed to have culture? Have you ever heard about HC Andersen? How you ever heard about The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen? No you haven't... because you are too busy pointing fingers and screaming "racist" at people, because it makes you feel better. This is cultural appropriation against the Danish people, and the Danish folk lore and Danish culture, which deserve preservation just as much as any other culture... unless you are racist off course?
@@jonq8714 we still support it for the woman who’s playing Ariel. She is getting so much hate, just look at the comment section under the little mermaid trailer.
If you want to bawl your eyes out, just look up a compilation video of little black girls being shown the teaser for this remake. It's simultaneously heartwarming & heartbreaking
We had neighbors with a very young child who was ascribed male at birth, but insisted that she was a girl. These were conservative immigrants from Nepal, and not in any way “woke” activists influencing their child. They finally relented and let her dress herself as she wanted. I don’t know what ever happened, as we moved away, but it was definitely the child making this determination.
The reason why there was only ever one black person on Friends is because the premise was stolen from a show that was already being filmed and released across the studio’s own lot that was an all black cast, called Living Single. That studio wanted to have a “white answer” to their own show that they (unfortunately, correctly) assumed would do better with general audiences. P.S. My mother hated Friends for that sole reason & my name is purely coincidental.
The moral outrage over this is sickening. There is still a white Ariel in the original movie! She’s not being erased from history. Don’t let your kid watch the new movie if you’re so sensitive about it - but I guarantee the kid is going to be upset and confused and want to see it, you know why? Because it’s a movie FOR KIDS and kids do NOT care about the skin color of the fantasy mermaid! They just want to see the mermaid!
This is the most funniest controversy ever; Europeans have spent centuries erasing Africans from History - from Hannibal, to the Egyptians to the Native Indigenous people they came across during Imperialism; one movie replaces one white actress with a black actress and he corresponding family members also; and white rage is kindled. It's completely hilarious. We as Black folks have been begging Christians, especially evangelicals, to represent Christs dark brown skin appropriately for years, but that is request falls on dead ears. Smh.
If there were a jebus movie with a brown faith healing scammer that does magic tricks, the outrage from that would make this mermaid outrage "pale" in comparison.
“ I cannot abide by” um doesn’t matter what you can abide by. Also now that there’s a threat of black actors being in movies and cartoons all of a sudden he wants to “agree to be colorblind “
The threat is that Hollywood is racist and actively discriminating against whites, by going out of their way to "blackwash" stories while refusing to "whitewash" stories.
Lol I've heard the "all kids should be put on puberty blockers" comment before, it's usually in the context of Person A: Kids are too young to make irreversible changes to their body, therefore they shouldn't be on puberty blockers Person B: If you thought that 12 is too young for irreversible changes, you'd be advocating for all kids to be put on puberty blockers because endogenous puberty also causes irreversible changes Rubin's a weaselly lil liar dude
Very true. Also, the original Little Mermaid is a story where she has to experience torture after transitioning into a human and has a tragic ending. And yet, those changes are never mentioned.
It doesn't matter what skin tone Hans Christian Anderson had. The little mermaid isn't a white woman. She's a fish. Anything other than Shape of Water or Hellboy levels of Giermo Del Toro makeup is scaly erasure!
LOL, Sam yelled 0:55 "Pause it for one second!" and I actually paused the video! Yes, what experience of mermaids did Hans Christian Andersen have? Was it a mermaid or just some old fishwife? BTW: is that banjo behind Matt Walsh for an upcoming minstrel show?
what does Max von Sydow, Ewan McGregor, Brian Deacon, Willem Dafoe, Chris Sarandon, Jeffry Hunter, Victor Garber, Ralf Fienes, Christian Bale, & Jim Caviezel have in common? They've all played the same fictional story character, white Jesus. I don't hear Walsh & his ilk complaining about that! 🤪
Benny Shapiro must be so delighted he brought another intellectual like Walsh on board. Light some torches and grab some pitchforks Walsh fans....and carry The Little Mermaid issue straight on to the midterms!
It's amazing to me that Dave is effectively advocating to drag society back toward his own childhood... where I guarantee you he was called by a girl's name, without his consent, and probably by teachers.
Most stories about African-Americans and Africans are written by white people. It's only been in the last 40 years that African-Americans have been allowed to publish in the united states. Frederick Douglass happened to have enough money to publish some of his work but most of it was written down by white people who published the work. He didn't even get money for it. He couldn't be paid because he was black or something like that same as the early African-American or black songwriters and singers who were not given copyrights over their own work
@@ribbrascal no, he mentioned the 90s, but before that he gave the vague "for many years", and never really indicated a "this and only this period" your attempt at pedantry is weak and pathetic.
It’s crazy how they always validate the idea of their kids not talking to them about sensitive topics. “I might kill a teacher who respects my child” is one hell of a self-report. Also for all the accusations of “groomer” they aim at people who are way better adjusted than they are, they sure do seem to want to make their kids easier for predators to target and victimize.
Walsh using a Pseudoscientific arguments is just baffling... usually he disregards science when it comes to the scientific consensus on climate scientists and he also, as Creationist Christian...disregards Methodological naturalism and the fact of evolution.
matt walsh is right, we should base it off of what hans christian anderson intended, and since the little mermaid is based off of himself, we clearly need a gay man to play the little mermaid, this should surely appease matt walsh
Someone should bring this up, they'd lose their shit. 😂
Coco Peru has red hair. 🤔 And is pale. 😉
Yeah, and both him and his prince are dressing romanticly, like Mickiewicz or Byron and they ramble around seaweeds or moors pondering their lost homeland to austrohungary empire.
RuPaul as Ursula.
“Mer-Man. Mer-man.” Zoolander.
It's awesome watching apparently grown up alpha men getting all pissy about a mermaid.
@Dick Hanes yeah? It's even better watching misogynist men show their true colours whilst cowering behind a troll account. 🍆🥀
@Dick Hanes Pot, meet Kettle's idiot cousin Dick
@Dick Hanes Mr. "Dick Hanes.. too high I have to sit to pee" Hanes.
"Alpha"? Lol
And wait until they cast the next 007 (the producers would love Idris Elba as the next James Bond)
I'm surprised Walsh wasn't calling for the original Little Mermaid story to be outright banned, it's literally a story about a fish TRANSITIONING into a woman.
Yeah, what happened to the trans outrage?
We also stole this from Danish culture
Hans Christian Andersen fell in love with everyone he met and took rejection poorly.
Actually mermaids are not transitioning from fish into women. That would mean that the fish would no longer exist after the transition was complete. Mermaids are half-woman, half-fish.
Probably because they can’t project onto the little mermaid that she’s a pedophile which is 💯 the narrative the right wing is going with to justify their hate speech against trans people.
This is based on the real time Hans Christian Anderson saw a mermaid and he wrote in his journal "I saw a mermaid, she was super white yo." That's how the story came to be.
This movie is cultural appropriation of white European folklore.
You joke, but there's probably a "history" textbook in Texas with that information.
In reality he wrote it cos he was upset that a man (Edvard Collin) he had a crush on married a woman and called him a 'worthy friend'.
“jeg så en havfrue, hun var super hvid”
Nice how you guys take what was said out of context to stroke your own groupthink's ego lol really pathetic and sad
When I think of *"scientific accuracy"* and *"danish culture"* I think of talking crabs suddenly breaking into Caribbean-inspired songs under water. Impressive how the animated movie managed to capture those concepts so perfectly.
All crabs are very obviously Jamaican!
@@matthewfoley3929 and voiced by Samuel E. Wright (R.I.P).......a South Carolinian...lol
@@twilitezn just googled. Thank God Disney used a black actor at least. Wouldn't have put it past them.😅
@@UberNoodle Well a lot of classic fairy tales was horror stories basically. Little mermaid die in the end because she is a foolish half beast half man. Cinderella had red hot iron shoes apply to the evil stepmother.
@@matthewfoley3929 NOPE.
Gotta love how Matt Walsh focuses on Hans Christian Andersen's "personal experiences" and "scientific accuracy". Ariel was a princess of Atlantis (in Greek mythology, located south of Europe, much closer to Africa). She was one of the many daughters of King Triton (also Ancient Greek), and her main enemy was the sea witch Ursula (a gray-skinned octopus woman aesthetically modeled after the drag queen Divine) and her sidekicks Flotsam and Jetsam, two moray eels (in Europe only found in the Mediterranean Sea) that have electrical strike abilities (not a moray eel trait). Ariel's close sidekicks were a tropical fish named Flounder (the species of seabed-dwelling fish whose eyes migrate to one side of their bodies) and Sebastian, a hermit crab (only found in the tropics) with a Jamaican accent. A truly scientifically accurate version of The Little Mermaid would be boring, weird, and perhaps a bit terrifying.
Hermit crabs and moray eels aren't exclusively tropical and Mediterranean species?
Matt Walsh must have lost his mind over Hamilton.
So Danish people are not allowed to have a folk lore? Danish people are not allowed to have culture?
Have you ever heard about HC Andersen? How you ever heard about The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen?
No you haven't... because you are too busy pointing fingers and screaming "racist" at people, because it makes you feel better.
This is cultural appropriation against the Danish people, and the Danish folk lore and Danish culture, which deserve preservation just as much as any other culture... unless you are racist off course?
@@diligencehumility6971 Who are you talking to? You’ve replied to my comment - which was about Hamilton. The musical.
Also, I don’t think it matters what the mermaid’s skin colour is.
Your comment is hysterical. Hans Christian Andersen is extremely well known. His fairy tales are probably the most familiar and, not unlike Shakespeare, these tales are told over and over. Often details are changed.
Hand wringing about the colour of the mermaid’s skin seems moronic.
Nobody is disrespecting HC Andersen. Nobody is disrespecting Danish culture. Especially not me.
@@joeyg448
They're just spamming their incoherent grievance rant on multiple prominent comments for attention.
I don't think they realize the elevated level of rabid spite has caused their brain to leak out over, and I repeat, the color of human mixed into a fictional fish person.
And you know it's the color of human that is the problem, because they didn't make this complaint the last time Disney heavily altered The Little Mermaid.
It's animated movie was a huge success with people like them, after all.
Their grievances are artificial, an attempt to mock real harm in the world so they don't have to feel bad about hurting people.
It's just sad and childish, honestly.
@@UsenameTakenWasTaken Ah. I should’ve realised that was the case. I get an email alert when someone replies to a comment I’ve written so I assumed they had read what I wrote. How tedious. Oh - “incoherent grievance” is an excellent description (as is ‘rabid spite’ - good writing).
Weird claim though. Like Danish culture reaches its penultimate expression in Hans Christian Andersen. Obviously not consuming the excellent crime fiction coming out of Denmark.
Racists are boringly predictable 🙄
@@diligencehumility6971 copypasta
He actually said "From a scientific perspective" when talking about a fantastical magical fish/human that defies scientific reality in practically every other aspect of it's (not even real) existence. If the human half of the mermaid had been pale blue or green or anything other than brown or black, I suspect it would be a safe bet that Matt wouldn't even feel the need to comment on it at all. But the actress is black... so... Matt practically suggests he'd rather she not have skin at all.
I thought he was going to mention (scientifically) Dugongs, a sort of fat dolphin that is sometimes said to be what sex-starved delirious sailors saw swimming beside their boat, tempting them. And dugongs are not African-American.
@@macroman52 If he pulls the thread long enough he'll eventually end up telling mermaids that if they don't like what he says they should just go back to their own biome.
Yeah. Getting into science (which he really shouldn't, he's just not bright) to explain how a mermaid is supposed to look?
Seriously, she is something that can't exist, scientifically. And if she did, she wouldn't have breasts. Cause fish aren't mammals.
So, a magical, mythological creature can have any skin color at all.
In fact, I think she was green, originally.
Right wing talking heads just say words assuming none of their supporters are smart enough to research things for themselves from sources that are legitimate scientific sources with data that can be verified from other legitimate scientific sources. When the right wing says “do your own research” what they mean is research what QAnon nutjobs say on this subject regardless of the fact that none of those sources can be verified or reproduced with similar results.
He probably watched that mockumentary "Mermaids: The Body Found" and was stupid enough to think it was scientific fact.
I mean, I won't lie. A horror version of Little Mermaid where Ariel is a lust-obsessed, translucent skeleton monster pursuing Prince Eric across land and sea sounds awesome and is absolutely a movie that I would watch...
When does the ip expire?
The original little mermaid is public domain so anyone can make a little mermaid movie as long as it’s not too close to the Disney version.
A lot more stuff would be public domain too if it weren’t for Disney. Look up the copyright extension act of 1999.
Horror versions of kids shows are often lazy but with a good director could be great. Also fuck Matt Walsh
Or a Syrin.
they had a horror story with a ghostly skeleton against a sailor, it's called Pirates of the Carribean
Matt Walsh: "Mermaids shouldn't be black, they should be white. SCIENTIFICALLY SPEAKING. Actually, they shouldn't really be white, they should be transparent." Okay, then why weren't you mad at a white mermaid?
Even that's not 100% true. Many deep sea creatures has dark pigmentation, not all are transparent or translucent. Anglerfish and sharks that live in deep waters have dark pigmentation.
you think he was being serious? I mean come on, they guy is jokingly saying he would watch a horrific mermaid film and you believe him? he says a lot I dont agree with, but if the left needs to go after everything even obvious jokes then...
He was being sarcastic. Everyone is being really easily trolled by this.
They shouldn’t even have SKIN bro. Matt Walsh is so dumb.
@@AxeManOfSuburbia James and skull. Please tell me you're both aware of his extremely bad mood setting with his "jokes". He sounds and looks like the same whenever he does a thing. He might as well be a transphobic robot that's not capable of showing any level of human emotion. Pretty hard to tell when he's serious or not... Just saying lol. The beard also helps hide his facial expressions... Also his beard looks like shiz lol.
Evidence of racial equality in 90s Hollywood: The studio had no faith in Bad Boys because they felt no one might want to watch two black guys in the lead roles (the movie was originally for Jon Lovitz and Dana Carvey... Imagine how bad that would have been).
Vin Diesel couldn't get cast in the 90s. He was too light to be black, too dark to be white and not quite hispanic enough. He ended up financing his own feature film as writer, director and lead (about his own experiences about being unable to get cast due to his mixed race), and that's what got him the attention of Spielberg, who cast him in Saving Private Ryan.
Even in the 2000s, the studio didn't know who to cast opposite Will Smith for Hitch. They felt going full interracial with a white actress was too taboo. But if they cast a black actress, it wouldn't appeal to white audiences. And that's why they cast Eva Mendes. Not dark enough to alienate white audiences, and not white enough to upset racist audiences. Will was the most bankable star and had the perfect public image at the time for a rom-com (hip, sexy, funny, charismatic, likable, etc), but studios still had to tiptoe around race.
Sounds like nonsense, blade???
Every Eddie Murphy movie ever made??? Come on... and who is "they" you keep talking about?
Black actors werent taboo in the 90s.
@@brianbridges8124 Of course black actors weren't taboo in and of themselves. The 'taboo' aspect is the depiction of an interracial relationship onscreen and I'm referring to accounts of studio concerns at the time.
Another example: Angelina Jolie and Denzel Washington in Bone Collector. They are a couple in the final scene. Studio was ok with them holding hands, but decided against depicting an onscreen kiss. Director Phillip Noyce discussed this in the director's commentary. Noyce was ok with it, as were the actors... Studio said no.
@@axelfoley133 no you mentioned bad boys, which isnt about interacial relationships, it's just two black cops... nobody thought that was taboo at the time. Black actors were getting plenty of work in the 90s. The interracial thing..... maybe I can see a small amount of the production companies being unsure of that because of racism. But the idea that people of colour are underrepresented and are only getting work in the last 10- 15 years is an insane idea that I've heard many people put forward.
Good stories don't need to change skin colour, because a good story resonates regardless of race, which ironically is the type of world wokeists want, but on the other hand, they want to make a point of changing skin colour in remake movies for no other reason than racial reasons which only serves to prolong the racism in society.
Even Crazy Rich Asians was going to make the main character a white woman so American audiences would "relate" to her.
@@axelfoley133 Now you're goalpost moving.
People like Matt Walsh love to speak on behalf of those that are no longer here to speak for themselves because he'll never be corrected.
Just like they say what Jesus would say, or believe. If Jesus came back together. Conservative Christians would crucify him and call him an Anarcho Commie degenerate. 🤣
Came back today*
Same with Dave Rubin who the right wing claims to speak for all gay men and he’s useful to the right as a token gay similar to Candice Owens is their token black who will affirm their conformation bias and regurgitate their racist tropes and justify these beliefs.
So Danish people are not allowed to have a folk lore? Danish people are not allowed to have culture?
Have you ever heard about HC Andersen? How you ever heard about The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen?
No you haven't... because you are too busy pointing fingers and screaming "racist" at people, because it makes you feel better.
This is cultural appropriation against the Danish people, and the Danish folk lore and Danish culture, which deserve preservation just as much as any other culture... unless you are racist off course?
@@diligencehumility6971 You clearly don't understand what cultural appropriation is.
Tip for life: if you don't think *ADAPTATIONS* should have the artistic license to deviate from the original, don't watch the animated film because it deviated in *CRUCIAL* details from the original including the ending.
Tip for life 2: if go so far as to debate the scientific accuracy of the skin color of mythical creatures, you should, first, be made to explain first how Mermaids can *TALK* and *SING UNDER WATER.*
isn't that what MW said? That he doesn't care if you change the race, just dont change a white character to black/other and be ok with it and then if a black/other character is played by a white there's a problem? Change the race/sex all you want, just dont make it one sided.
@@jameeyg87 Nope, that's the trade-off he offered "if it all agreed" as if we don't already live in a world with plenty of examples in the oposite direction (hello Dr Strange, hello Gods of Egypt, hello, hello Ghost in the Shell). As if most movies are not white-led. It's a cop-out.
@@jameeyg87 Guess what? We don't have to agree or offer him or you any trade-off. If he *actually* doesn't care he could've said "who cares", instead of playing his audience's fantasies of white erasure.
Conversely, if dude wants to be the guy whining about mythical creatures not being white, it's not my problem. Don't ask me to pretend it's not so. Don't ask me not to pretend his "if it all agreed" spiel is not a cop-out.
@@livelongandtroll9108 yes, and all those movies are met with controversy and anger when whites are in the role. What’s funny is that MW says he doesn’t care, just keep it fair which is way less than when it’s the other way with people celebrating when a minority gets a white role. For eg I would always want idris alba to be James Bond, but many times when it was speculated or said he would be a great bond, pundits would also add how a white bond was lame in the first place and how this is a white black thing.
@@jameeyg87 Remember when Matt Walsh's colleague at the Daily Wire, Jordan Peterson, lost it on twitter over the suggestion of Bond being played by Idris Elba?
Ladies and gentlemen, we have reached a new low.
This isn't a new low for him. His low is starting a harassment campaign against one of the best children's hospitals in the country which led to bomb threats, putting the lives of children in at risk.
It's really just a continuation of their old lows
Mermaids are not real so....
Indeed. The anti-white woke left thinks Walsh was being serious about translucent mermaids.
I feel like we've been here a hundred times already
so many grown men talking about the little mermaid. we live in an alternate reality, this is insane
Before that it was The Smurfs and Teletubbies among others. Sesame Street has always been a big one for them as well. Don’t forget the rage when a puppet with an accent is introduced.
Add that to the M&M’s they got upset over and Mr. Potatohead.
This party seems to be extremely preoccupied with childrens TV and movies, candy and toys while also promoting themselves as the party “of real men” who tan their balls.
Their BS is all so ridiculous and absurd by the time it’s pointed out exactly HOW ridiculous and absurd they are on to the next manufactured cultural outrage.
@@AclockworkPurple 1000% to everything you said. It would be painfully embarrassing if the majority of them weren't so bigoted...
@@tommydevine9993 Yeah, bigotry is a part of it. “Stranger Danger” is learned but also part of human psychology.
The same thing happens in politics that happens in sports. The stuff you see surrounding it is very similar.
Humans evolved as social animals for survival. Groups provide support, comfort and security among other things. This means anything different may potentially “harm” the group. Anything seen as a challenge must be defeated. If those challenges and fears are irrational then ANYTHING can be blamed as the cause and ANYTHING can be claimed as a solution.
When all of this uproar is manufactured and ultimately driven by hubris, ego, narcissism, megalomania, delusions of grandeur or any other of the multitudes of human BS it gets out of control.
At the very core of this is fear. It is primal. It is also effective when motivating people.
When fear is primal you stop thinking and react.
When fear is rational, like an imminent hurricane, agreement can be made on what steps can be taken to prepare or mitigate losses.
When fears are irrational they start to become more subjective and lead to “going down the rabbit hole” becoming more extreme in trying to find a solution for something that does not exist.
Apologies for the lengthy comment, I start typing and don’t realize I ramble.
As a parent of an African American daughter, I can tell you it means THE WORLD to have "a princess of color" in a Disney movie. They have been waiting for DECADES. I remember how excited I was to get a black haired ethnic barbie. What a racist propagandist! People like him are why the right is losing.
Tiana was a good first step too!
Then make a new black mermaid, if you care so much about equality. Don’t swap the race of an already established character…😂🤦
@@ctrekronertrekroner3931 they already did make a black mermaid 😂🤦♂️ you actually can’t see how little sense your comment makes but you’re acting like you’re so right. Being that un-self aware is a work of art.
@@ctrekronertrekroner3931 beep boop
@@juniusbobbledoonary9667 ???
*"I might kill that person"* Yeah, Rubin you're really a tough one. I totally believe you.
emma made a good point about rubin. maybe he attacks his own so that "they" don't attack him. i suppose that's a credible defense mechanism. for a chickensh*t. applies to any of the right wing's "tokens".
Dave speaking out his revenge fantasies on all the people who called him by a girl's name when he was a kid. I will never understand how people can side with their bullies to try and spread their misery to others. This is so far beyond Stockholm syndrome, it's just masochism at this point.
@@philipvipond2669 those people that agree with the bully usually try and avoid his rage and they're cowards you have to remember this
@@brandonfitzgerald1457 My point is that his actions directly contribute to his own bullying. It's one thing to try and redirect to spare yourself, but this is a step beyond that.
@@philipvipond2669 unfortunately when they do it long enough they get used to it unfortunately and think it's normal even though we know it's wrong.
I'm not surprised to learn that Matt Walsh feels so passionate about fairy tails.
Most members of the muscular class are exquisitely concerned with baby stuff.
Seme with how hyper focused he and other fascists are about "grooming" that's not actually happening. Methinks the lady doth protest too much...
Whatever emotional lesbian
Just wait til you hear how he feels about the Bible.
@@lexopims3660 yo mama😎
Matt Walsh's holier-than-thou, smug bullying is as awful as his Catholic Church's reputation is.
Especially since the central figure in this religion is Black.
Scammers be scammin bro
Great to have a very limited mind and brin of thinking as a groupthink on this fame forum
@@karld884 Jesus, if he existed, was Middle Eastern, not black.
@@rc7625 He is whatever color people want him to be, since he's as real as mermaids are.
At this point I just wonder when they're going to stop. Surely over time less and less people care.
They'll stop when we're all extinct from ecological collapse.
Wrong. The more the anti-white woke left attack white people and replace them in entertainment, the more everyone will care.
What is hilarious to me is the idea that he is angry at the thought of a fictional character being black. Is it really the "under the sea" thing? A fictional character. Speaking of fictional characters why isn't he also upset that they made Jesus white? Or Trump a hero and a genius? Too soon?
Grown men with no kids having an opinion on the little mermaid is SUPER WEIRD
Matt Walsh has a creepy obsession with kids.
He has like 4 or 5 kids though. You guys are also being trolled by a flippant and sarcastic remark he made in response to a viewer comment. Y'all are taking it seriously for some reason
@@michaelegan3522 this weirdo did an entire documentary asking people to define what a woman is. And the fact that he's married with kids makes this even weirder. Bc none of his comments or positions ever have real life examples. Which means the weirdo stuff the does online isn't even how he acts at home.
I find it creepy & weird that a grown adult man is so obsessed with the racial casting of a make believe character in a children’s movie.
It's cultural appropriation of white European folklore
@@ribbrascal - this may shock you but Hollywood takes liberties all the time with characters.
Thor is based on Norse mythology, but it never mentions him being an avenger. 🙄
@@ribbrascal no it's not because the original concept of a mermaid came from Syria 1000 BC.
@@ribbrascal
Mermaids only appear in European folklore?
You sure you wanna make that uninformed claim? 🤣🤣
@@xEnder515 The Little Mermaid is Danish folklore.
Why are you so anti-white?
Pretty girl?
Good singing?
Red head?
Fish tail for legs?
Looks like the little mermaid to me
Thing is, in Hans Christian Anderson's original, the mermaid was blonde. So they should be getting upset about the lack of accuracy in the Disney animated version if they're actually concerned with being true to the text.
Clearly they won't because the issue isn't accuracy. It's racism, the rest is the peanut butter they've covered it in so the general public will swallow their bigotry
@@gwelwynn Nice strawman. Got any proof or will you just spout buzzwords? Disney's Ariel is a pale skinned redhed, and I'm not seeing that here. Not even griffy or yougnrippa like the race swapping.
Did Matt Walsh have an aneurysm when _Star Trek: Voyager_ was on the air since it has a black Vulcan?
There have been tons of on-stage adaptations of The Little Mermaid and other shows that have swapped ethnicity and even gender. Is he saying that if a school put on a play of the little mermaid, no non-white girls could play Ariel? Would he like to explain why to their parents? Besides it’s just an adaptation it’s not like it’s the ‘official’ version of the little mermaid. Not even the Disney is the ‘official’ version. They are not obligated to match what the book said word for word.
They haven't even seen the movie yet. 🤣. These guys are racist through and through.
You're anti-white.
@X Oh I think that he is already in love with her as she is. He may have a fever 🤣
So it’s not racist to change someone’s race?
@@ctrekronertrekroner3931 pathetic.
@@Tunainthebrine79 There was no racism though.
Grown man (Walsh) worried about cartoon mermaid being a black woman in live action movie. Bro.
By the way, as a sailor that loves seafaring lore and a marine scientist, I can tell you that mermaid tales were based on sea animals. This includes manatees, harbor porpoises, and baluga whales. Also, mermaids lured sailors into the water to drown and eat men. Not all deep sea creatures are translucent. Never mind they came up to the surface to lure men over the side. Light is frequency. This means in water it's both reflected and refracted. Walsh is an idiot.
Hailey Bailey is an amazing singer. See you all at the movies!
8:00 - 8:34 *OHH MY GOD.* I seriously can barely write this comment bc i just keep laughing so hard. He thinks we should be applying "science" to what a *magical mermaid* should look like. He wants kids to go see a pale, translucent, skeletal Disney princess. Oh my god he is an absolute freak
I want all the country music artists to stop stealing black R&B SONGS
She's the most fair-skinned person of color they could find and he's still upset.
White people are POC.
Well of course. What more would you expect from a white supremacist?
I hate Matt Walsh. He better be thankful there's 16000 km of ocean separating him from me.
As proof that Sam doesn't screen IMs before he reads them, he once read off an IM, then named Jack Yerdadov as the author, realizing midway through that he was being had.
I wish someone would put together all the clips where Sam or anyone else on the team read off such prank IMs.
Yeah because red herring
It's funny
Couldn't argue against their points I see 😂
I grew up with all white fairy tales, and never gave it a second thought. It was just 🤷🏻♀️ Cinderella is blond, and little mermaid is a red head, Belle is a brunette, and they’re all white. I never thought it was a big deal.
Then, a few years ago, my daughter saw Moana for the first time, and got really excited. She held up her hand and said that Moana looked just like her. We’re middle eastern, not Hawaiian, but for her, it was close enough. My daughter has always been a sensitive soul. I’m happy these different princesses are here now for all the other little girls who need them.
I'm a woman of middle eastern descent. This comment makes me so happy.
I never felt that way watching Jackie Chan movies, Xiaolin Showdown, Static Shock, the Torkaizer promo, or Kamen Rider or countless other non-white media. Or even white led shows. Sounds like your kids lack empathy.
@@MisterHeroman I watched and liked all the movies growing up, and didn’t care that they were mostly white either, just like you. But everybody is different, and have different needs, and different insecurities. My daughter was pleased to see a princess with skin like hers. It was an honest feeling from a 3 year old. Why do you have to be so negative about it?
I'd be down to see a version of The Little Mermaid where all the mermaids have translucent skin. Sounds metal af.
"Into the Drowning Deep" by Mira Grant.
Make it really metal. Have her legs tear apart, blood everywhere.
"Under tha SAEAAAAAA! Under the SAEAAAAAA! Motherfucker, it's better, down where it's wetter, drowning with MAEEEEE!" * breakdown *
The Little Mermaid 1989 animated version was based on Hans Christian Anderson's tale of The Little Mermaid, some of the major characters can still be referenced from the original tale.
"They were beautiful children, but the youngest was the prettiest of them all. Her skin was as clear and delicate as a rose petal, and her eyes as blue as the deepest sea; but, like all the others, she had no feet and her body ended in a fish’s tail.”
“When something like a black cloud passed between her and them, she knew that it was either a whale swimming over her head, or a ship full of human beings who never imagined that a pretty little mermaid was standing beneath them, holding out her white hands towards the keel of the ship.”
“He fixed his coal-black eyes upon her so earnestly that she cast down her own and then became aware that her fish’s tail was gone and that she had as pretty a pair of white legs and tiny feet as any little maiden could have.”
“Then the little mermaid raised her lovely white arms, stood on the tips of her toes, glided over the floor, and danced as yet no one yet had been able to dance.”
“She saw her sisters rising out of the flood. They were as pale as she, but their hair no longer waved in the wind; it had been cut off.”
-The Little Mermaid: Hans Christian Andersen
Regardless of what other people think, the original tale that they based this animation on stated in several places that The Little Mermaid is white, and will be a white woman after her transformation.
I have seen a lot of people say that Anderson never stated or hinted the mermaid's race anywhere, and yet here we are.
Those people who said the race of the mermaid didn't matter probably never read the source material for Disney's animated version of the story.
ITS A FICTIONAL CHARACTER. THIS FICTIONAL CHARACTER DOESN'T HAVE TO BE ANY RACE. GROW UP.
@@whiterunguard1434 It is a fictional character written by a white author who clearly stated that his character's skin is what would be considered a white person.
I've seen Japanese movie adaptation of a novel written by a British author, and everyone in that adaptation are clearly white with European decent, it's called respecting the material you took your story from.
The person who needs to grow up is you because you clearly have no respect for the background and origins of the story, which is worse than a child really.
not to mention the Disney version of the story is VERY different from the original.
The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen, Denmark, which is where Hans Christian Andersen is buried, is black. Just saying. Perhaps someone could tweet a picture of this statue at him.
Hollywood takes liberties all the time. Thor is based on Norse mythology and it doesn’t mention his time as an Avenger.
This video was so painful to watch! These people just judged a comment that Matt Walsh was reading as something he said and went at it for a long time acting like Matt Walsh was the one who said it. These folk are so ignorant! I can’t even watch the rest of this.
They aren't ignorant, they are deliberately dishonest. I've watched Matt's actual commentary about the Little Mermaid, and he directly said he didn't care if they wanted a black actress to play the Little Mermaid, he was pointing out the hypocrisy of the left demanding that whites cannot play black characters or voice non white characters in animations, then turning around and insisting that white characters like Ariel must be played by blacks. Seder and MR left that out in their attack on him.
I guess Aquaman totally pissed him off lol
If we can have a white Jesus, we can certainly have a black Little Mermaid.
I mean... If you look at some of the descriptors and details in the original story this was based on, there is context that supports the idea of rather than taking place in the seas of Denmark, the story of The Little Mermaid actually takes place in the ocean near the Danish West Indies... in the Caribbean... Making it arguable that the animated version was actually a whitewash of what the mermaid should have looked like to begin with. I mean... They even gave Sebastian that accent back in the 90s... One could assume that at least on *some* subconscious level they were at least vaguely aware.
From a scientific perspective, the hulk doesn't make much sense. Or any fairytale.
If it were true to Anderson's story, the little sea-maid would die at the end and go into a three-hundred year purgatory as a 'daughter of the air'. “And we may even get there sooner,” whispered a daughter of the air. “Invisibly we float into the houses of men where children are, and for every day on which we find a good child that brings joy to its parents and deserves their love, our time of probation is shortened. The child does not know when we fly through the room; and when we smile with joy at the child’s conduct, a year is counted off from the three hundred; but when we see a naughty or a wicked child, we shed tears of grief, and for every tear a day is added to our time of trial.”
There is a reason no one reads Anderson much any more. We won't even talk about The Red Shoes, which is genuinely horrifying!
Dave Ruben claims he would straight-up kill a teacher for misgendering his son, but when trans people or parents of trans kids take issue with misgendering, they’re considered irrational, too sensitive, and “snowflakes.” We’ve got a guy completely making up someone who would never exist that he wants to kill and then we’ve got people who face actual discrimination, are justified in their outrage, and still do not become violent in response and instead try to be an advocate for fairness and basic human decency.
The part where he talks about the scientific reasoning makes me wonder if there's a place where all this grifters go to laugh about it all. And to laugh about the people that support them. "They should be translucent" like that's pretty good dam laughable that people would support all that.
What Matt is saying is not that absurd. There should be no problem with any mythical creature being a different race. The problem is they feel like the need to do it every single time and it becomes the primary focus. That’s now what art should be about. You should be able to watch a movie without being overwhelmed with a political message. It should be about the story. People are rightfully annoyed by this constant push for identity politics.
Danish Erasure is one of my favorite 80's bands.
Some of my teachers were bullies. They would totally misgender a straight, cis kid just to fuck with them.
That conversation took a total left turn out of nowhere, right in the middle. I honestly thought I accidentally tapped on another video, until I looked down at the title again.
They always find a trans angle to their videos anymore
Like whites haven’t been playing black face brown face for decades on the screen casting whites to play Mexicans,Indians,Asians, and who could ever forget that it still goes on
Anyone else get the feeling if he could Matt Walsh would strangle The Little Mermaid?
Not strangle, but I think he secretly yearns to be a black little Mermaid
Yes I'm thinking more vaporeon memes
As asian, its kinda weird that the left and right wing have a big disagreement for a fictional character. My only grief is that Disney just make remake rather than make a new original story.
I mean, let's be honest here. If you're gonna date a mermaid you're gonna want the top half to be the fish instead.
Didn't Futurama have an episode about this? Lol
@@rc7625 I believe the reference you are looking for is Red Dwarf. 😋
@@rc7625 Season 2 Episode 12, The Deep South.
@@rc7625 Family Guy also had a joke about it.
Yay for a black mermaid! Down with sick parents grooming their little boys to say they're girls. Anyone, parent or doctor, who gives a child puberty blockers should be put in prison, and I hope someday it starts to happen. Sick and evil!
lol the funny thing is Hans was writing about him being in love with a man and the conservatives love the Little Mermaid XD
Bass Reeves a black man was the original Lone Ranger but in the movies he was played by two different white men. And Cleopatra was a black woman from Egypt who was played in the movies by a white woman. Not to mention white Tarzan dropped in the middle of Africa with nothing but black people
The little mermaid is the best Disney movie ever. It’s so sad racists have ruined this whole experience of having the live action happen, I am excited despite not being a fan of the live action remakes for the first time 😢 I teared up when I saw the trailer because the film means so much to me. Honestly we shouldn’t let racists ruin it and should all go support the film in theaters when it releases, to show our support for Halle ♥️🧜🏽♀️🐠
So Danish people are not allowed to have a folk lore? Danish people are not allowed to have culture?
Have you ever heard about HC Andersen? How you ever heard about The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen?
No you haven't... because you are too busy pointing fingers and screaming "racist" at people, because it makes you feel better.
This is cultural appropriation against the Danish people, and the Danish folk lore and Danish culture, which deserve preservation just as much as any other culture... unless you are racist off course?
I'm torn. On one had, I hate racists, on the other, I hate Disney. I don't know what to do.
@@jonq8714 "Let them fight..." -Dr. Serizawa , Godzilla KOTM 2019
@@jonq8714 we still support it for the woman who’s playing Ariel. She is getting so much hate, just look at the comment section under the little mermaid trailer.
People are really throwing a tantrum over the skin color of a fictional creature that never existed. 😂
If Hollywood wasn't so anthrocentric, they would have hired a real mermaid for the part.
Any comment about the little mermaid that starts with "scientifically..." really isn't relevant.
If you want to bawl your eyes out, just look up a compilation video of little black girls being shown the teaser for this remake. It's simultaneously heartwarming & heartbreaking
"She’s like me!"
We had neighbors with a very young child who was ascribed male at birth, but insisted that she was a girl. These were conservative immigrants from Nepal, and not in any way “woke” activists influencing their child. They finally relented and let her dress herself as she wanted. I don’t know what ever happened, as we moved away, but it was definitely the child making this determination.
The reason why there was only ever one black person on Friends is because the premise was stolen from a show that was already being filmed and released across the studio’s own lot that was an all black cast, called Living Single. That studio wanted to have a “white answer” to their own show that they (unfortunately, correctly) assumed would do better with general audiences.
P.S. My mother hated Friends for that sole reason & my name is purely coincidental.
Mermaids are Atlantean, not Danish.
"Mermaids should be translucent and look skeletal" Man that would make a great kids movie
The moral outrage over this is sickening. There is still a white Ariel in the original movie! She’s not being erased from history. Don’t let your kid watch the new movie if you’re so sensitive about it - but I guarantee the kid is going to be upset and confused and want to see it, you know why? Because it’s a movie FOR KIDS and kids do NOT care about the skin color of the fantasy mermaid! They just want to see the mermaid!
This is the most funniest controversy ever; Europeans have spent centuries erasing Africans from History - from Hannibal, to the Egyptians to the Native Indigenous people they came across during Imperialism; one movie replaces one white actress with a black actress and he corresponding family members also; and white rage is kindled. It's completely hilarious. We as Black folks have been begging Christians, especially evangelicals, to represent Christs dark brown skin appropriately for years, but that is request falls on dead ears. Smh.
If there were a jebus movie with a brown faith healing scammer that does magic tricks, the outrage from that would make this mermaid outrage "pale" in comparison.
Dave Rubens understands gay and transgender are 2 different things right? I would hope.
“ I cannot abide by” um doesn’t matter what you can abide by. Also now that there’s a threat of black actors being in movies and cartoons all of a sudden he wants to “agree to be colorblind “
The threat is that Hollywood is racist and actively discriminating against whites, by going out of their way to "blackwash" stories while refusing to "whitewash" stories.
Did they said anything about Disney's Princess and the Frog, because the title characters are black.
Lol I've heard the "all kids should be put on puberty blockers" comment before, it's usually in the context of
Person A: Kids are too young to make irreversible changes to their body, therefore they shouldn't be on puberty blockers
Person B: If you thought that 12 is too young for irreversible changes, you'd be advocating for all kids to be put on puberty blockers because endogenous puberty also causes irreversible changes
Rubin's a weaselly lil liar dude
The actual statue of Little Mermaid in Denmark is black.
I have a question for Mutt:
What is a mermaid?
it’s funny people never want the same accuracy when it comes to jesus… he ain’t white… but he is portrayed in every church
Mudfossil University probably has the mermaid science he's looking for
🤣🤣👍
Should we tell him Ursula was based on a drag queen?
For me, watching each child's joy at seeing herself in the new Ariel is worth a million supremacist gripers.
The amount of people here who have no idea about sarcasm show the iq level of left🤣🤣🤣🤣
Very true. Also, the original Little Mermaid is a story where she has to experience torture after transitioning into a human and has a tragic ending. And yet, those changes are never mentioned.
In the original, she killed her self. If Matt is so upset about losing it's originality...
Certain changes to make something kid-friendly for kids is different.
It doesn't matter what skin tone Hans Christian Anderson had. The little mermaid isn't a white woman. She's a fish. Anything other than Shape of Water or Hellboy levels of Giermo Del Toro makeup is scaly erasure!
LOL, Sam yelled 0:55 "Pause it for one second!" and I actually paused the video!
Yes, what experience of mermaids did Hans Christian Andersen have? Was it a mermaid or just some old fishwife?
BTW: is that banjo behind Matt Walsh for an upcoming minstrel show?
Laughed so hard at the pause thing 😂
Now I always have in mind the time he yelled PAUSE, during the pandemic, but he was alone and realized he had pause himself.
I still laugh about it.
What I'm really excited for is Jackie Chan's portrayal of Jim in the next Huckleberry Finn movie
what does Max von Sydow, Ewan McGregor, Brian Deacon, Willem Dafoe, Chris Sarandon, Jeffry Hunter, Victor Garber, Ralf Fienes, Christian Bale, & Jim Caviezel have in common?
They've all played the same fictional story character, white Jesus.
I don't hear Walsh & his ilk complaining about that! 🤪
How many White actors have played Jesus or Native Americans in films? Didn't Elizabeth Taylor play Cleopatra? Cleopatra was Black and from Africa.
And no-one will ask the real question: Are magic fish peepo oviparous, viviparous or oviviviparous?
Benny Shapiro must be so delighted he brought another intellectual like Walsh on board.
Light some torches and grab some pitchforks Walsh fans....and carry The Little Mermaid issue straight on to the midterms!
It's amazing to me that Dave is effectively advocating to drag society back toward his own childhood... where I guarantee you he was called by a girl's name, without his consent, and probably by teachers.
On the bright side, it sure will be easier for Dave Rubin to pull of that "stork" bullshit.
I wonder what he would have said if he was prominent when The Wiz came out
hahaha good point
Most stories about African-Americans and Africans are written by white people. It's only been in the last 40 years that African-Americans have been allowed to publish in the united states. Frederick Douglass happened to have enough money to publish some of his work but most of it was written down by white people who published the work. He didn't even get money for it. He couldn't be paid because he was black or something like that same as the early African-American or black songwriters and singers who were not given copyrights over their own work
"They just picked the best actor for the role"
I'm guessing he has never seen the 1956 film "Genghis Khan", with John Wayne playing the titular role.
He said specifically the 80s and 90s
.......or The King And I, starring Yul Brynner.
@@ribbrascal no, he mentioned the 90s, but before that he gave the vague "for many years", and never really indicated a "this and only this period" your attempt at pedantry is weak and pathetic.
@@edwinrollins142 yeah for many years since the 80s.
Why are you so anti-white?
@@ajwasp3642 ...or Mickey Rooney cast as a Japanese man in Breakfast at Tiffany's, or Dick Van Dyke speaking with a cockney accent in Mary Poppins
Why does Matt Walsh care so much about a movie geared towards kids?
Sounds like something a groomer cares about.
It’s crazy how they always validate the idea of their kids not talking to them about sensitive topics. “I might kill a teacher who respects my child” is one hell of a self-report.
Also for all the accusations of “groomer” they aim at people who are way better adjusted than they are, they sure do seem to want to make their kids easier for predators to target and victimize.
Better adjusted? They're perverts who want to talk about sex education and genitalia.
Amen.
How do conservatives make their kids easier for predators to victimize?
To be scientifically accurate a mermaid looks like a manatee.
Such a sad, sad little man.
But but Candace Owens agrees so therefore it must be right, right? Right… 😏
It's not just about love for another men. It's about not being able to talk about that, because you're under contract. (Howard Ashman's script)
Ashman was a Real One. Hope wherever he is, he's at peace & he knows the joy + inspiration he left us in his genius works.
Walsh using a Pseudoscientific arguments is just baffling... usually he disregards science when it comes to the scientific consensus on climate scientists and he also, as Creationist Christian...disregards Methodological naturalism and the fact of evolution.