much ado about nothing (Black Little Mermaid)

[creativemechanic]

21 hours ago, The_Patriot21 said:

Well...there's some validity to the argument...Disney is trying to race swap a traditionally white character...which your right, is their right to do so, and even more so it may even be better then the original. I don't know (of course I didn't like the original so it may not take much lol)

However, it's the reason they did it. Did they do it because they thought it was better...or did they do it to further push the racial divide the left has been trying (and succeeding) with their cancel culture and wokenness. Like taking aunt Jemima off their brand label, even though it was honoring a black woman. 

That's the real issue. However, you are right getting up in arms over the little mermaid is a bad hill to die on...as it's childish, paints us as racist, and quite frankly shows us as ignorant because there's a lot bigger things to protest Disney over then the skin color of a mermaid.

There's several huge, glaringly obvious and horrible things that Disney is doing which christian should be up in arms over, but arnt, yet they're angry over the skin color of a mermaid.

 good points.

 I dont think theyre doing it to push a racial divide though. Wheres the [profit in that.someone pointed this out- disney cares about money first. All the hype about casting a black actress as a classic white character is going to generate alot of hype and discussion with amount to free advertising. Look at the response when they made the fairy in Pinnocchio a black woman. I got far more comments that alot of the movies other pictures . People who probably wouldnt have cared about the movie otherwise will go and see it cause of this

[Starise]

My question would then be, how does changing a main character generate more income for Disney. And if true, then going from a white character makes more money. What does this say if true?

Disney has hurt themselves recently in many ways by the things they are doing. I no longer personally think it's all about the money.

[Rick-Parker]

3 hours ago, Starise said:

how does changing a main character generate more income for Disney

I think in this case that they are hoping to attract the black viewer to the theater.

[Jinto]

I think it's less about Ariel being race swapped and more about a pattern of recent movie that challenge/fight what's little left of the christian value inside people.

I can already smell the LGBT propaganda, the slavery allegory, demonization and degradation of the father figure or any male character that aren't gay, they may even demonize christianity by making mermaid some poor oppressed creature against bigot religious who treat them like demon.

Edited October 4, 2022 by Jinto

[TheBlade]

My thinking is they are just using black people today. I was born 61 and before 2018 they really didn't care and now they do? As one said she could have been green or even Hispanic or Asian. I watched something as of late before I canceled. I was watching thinking "ok where is it"  not even 10min in there it was then later on even more stuff that we as believers fully stand against. I've been slack in somethings in my life. Were told not to invite in some things that are fully against Christ or we take part in that sin. Yet we fully allow let in things like this with out a blink in. This is how I see it. I'm reminded of something a old woman said in 1968 we  can take with a grain of salt its just what was said then and how things are today makes one really take notice

"First before Jesus comes and before the Third World War breaks out there will be a ‘détente’ like we have never had before. There will be peace between the super powers in the east and the west, and there will be a long peace. (Remember, that this was in 1968 when the cold war was at its highest. E. Minos) In this period of peace there will be disarmament in many countries, also in Norway and we are not prepared when it (the war) comes. The Third World War will begin in a way no one would have anticipated - and from an unexpected place.

2. "A lukewarmness without parallel will take hold of the Christians, a falling away from true, living Christianity. Christians will not be open for penetrating preaching. They will not, like in earlier times, want to hear of sin and grace, law and gospel, repentance and restoration. There will come a substitute instead: prosperity (happiness) Christianity.

"The important thing will be to have success, to be something; to have material things, things that God never promised us in this way. Churches and prayer houses will be emptier and emptier. Instead of the preaching we have been used to for generations -like, to take your cross up and follow Jesus, - entertainment, art and culture will invade the churches where there should have been gatherings for repentance and revival. This will increase markedly just before the return of Jesus.

3. "There will be a moral disintegration that old Norway has never experienced the likes of. People will live together like married without being married. (I do not believe the concept ‘co-habitor’? existed in 1968 - E. Minos.) Much uncleanness before marriage, and much infidelity in marriage will become the natural (the common), and it will be justified from every angle. It will even enter Christian circles and we pet it - even sin against nature. Just before Jesus return there will be TV- programs like we have never experienced. (TV had just arrived in Norway in 1968. E. Minos)

"TV will be filled with such horrible violence that it teaches people to murder and destroy each other, and it will be unsafe in our streets. People will copy what they see. There will not be only one ‘station’ on TV, it will be filled with ‘stations.’ (She did not know the word ‘channel’ which we use today. Therefore she called them stations. E. Minos.) TV will be just like the radio where we have many ‘stations,’ and it will be filled with violence. People will use it for entertainment. We will see terrible scenes of murder and destruction one of the other, and this will spread in society. Sex scenes will also be shown on the screen, the most intimate things that takes place in a marriage." (I protested and said, we have a paragraph that forbids this kind of thing. E. Minos.) There the old woman said: "It will happen, and you will see it. All we have had before will be broken down, and the most indecent things will pass before our eyes."

4. "People from poor countries will stream to Europe. (In 1968 there was no such thing as immigration. E. Minos.) They will also come to Scandinavia - and Norway. There will be so many of them that people will begin to dislike them and become hard with them. They will be treated like the Jews before the Second World War. Then the full measure of our sins will have been reached (I protested at the issue of immigration. I did not understand it at the time. E. Minos.)

The tears streamed from the old woman’s eyes down her cheeks. "I will not see it, but you will. Then suddenly, Jesus will come and the Third World War breaks out. It will be a short war." (She saw it in the vision.)

"All that I have seen of war before is only child’s play compared to this one, and it will be ended with a nuclear atom bomb. The air will be so polluted that one cannot draw one’s breath. It will cover several continents, America, Japan, Australia and the wealthy nations. The water will be ruined (contaminated?). We can no longer till the soil. The result will be that only a remnant will remain. The remnant in the wealthy countries will try to flee to the poor countries, but they will be as hard on us as we were on them.

"I am so glad that I will not see it, but when the time draws near, you must take courage and tell this. I have received it from God, and nothing of it goes against what the Bible tells.

"The one who has his sin forgiven and has Jesus as Savior and Lord, is safe."