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Leatherneck
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Why? She’s not dark enough.

Yeah, the same leftists who have been telling us that the white characters who are being replaced by black girls aren’t important because they are fictional, and that we are racists if we mention it, are now throwing a temper tantrum because the native Hawaiian girl cast to play a native Hawaiian character isn’t dark skinned enough.

Race doesn’t matter to racists. Skin color matters. If a dark skinned biological male tranny from the Bronx was cast these racists would be celebrating Disney’s choice.

And of course the leftist media is ignoring all of the times a white character was replaced by a black one.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna79735



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Disney’s casting of ‘Lilo & Stitch’ character prompts colorism debate
Native Hawaiian fans say Disney has a track record of whitewashing characters, and they’re not happy with the reimagining of Nani as a lighter-skinned, biracial actor in the classic movie’s upcoming adaptation.

Following news that “Lilo & Stitch” will be the latest Disney classic to get the live-action treatment, fans of the 2002 animated movie were abuzz with predictions and desires for who would take on the iconic Native Hawaiian roles. Many were left disappointed Friday when Disney announced the casting of a biracial, light-skinned actor in the role of Nani, Lilo’s older sister, who in the original movie was drawn with darker skin, black hair and ethnic features.

“Not being Indigenous or from a PoC community, it may not be easy to see a problem with this casting, but within our communities this is a big issue,” one person tweeted. “Nani is Indigenous Hawaiian with strong features and dark skin, this casting is blatant colorism.”


Disney did not respond to a request for comment.


While some celebrated the casting, many Native Hawaiian fans said they were hoping for an actor who wasn’t white-passing and whose features reflected those of the island’s Indigenous population.

“Listen, she’s probably a lovely woman but I can’t help but feel disappointed,” another person tweeted. “I wanted Nani to look like me.”


Some say this is a pattern with Disney projects.


Nani’s reimagining parallels the controversy around the casting of Princess Jasmine in Disney’s 2019 live-action remake of “Aladdin,” fans tweeted. The sultan’s daughter in the fictional Agrabah (the setting and language of which some critics said was an indecisive mix between South Asia and the Middle East), was played by Naomi Scott, a biracial British actor of Indian ancestry.


Audiences called her casting out as whitewashing of the original character, who was the only Disney princess with darker skin at the time of the animated movie’s release in 1992.

Disney also caught heat in 2018 for changing Tiana — the studio’s first Black princess, from “The Princess and the Frog” — by portraying her with lighter skin and looser curls in an unreleased version of “Ralph Breaks the Internet.”

After images of this new depiction surfaced online, Disney reanimated the scene, facing backlash from fans and feedback from the voice actor who played Tiana. They eventually reverted the character’s looks closer to her depiction in “The Princess and the Frog.”


“Stop glorifying eurocentric beauty standards in the name of erasing characteristics and features,” a fan tweeted. “Give darker skinned pacific islanders the visibility we deserve.”




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Photo at the link shows the actor they cast to actually have a strong resemblance to the animated character.

There’s no pleasing these people.


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colorism


Oh good! A new ism to me. Hadn't heard that one yet. We needed a new ism. All the ones we had were getting awfully tired.




 
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So sick of this bullshit. Tired of hearing about it. Tired of reading about it.



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So... Re doing a character you care about and making them different is now bad? Lol


FUCK YOU. Truly. Deeply. From my deepest soul....fuck you.




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The best thing to do with these crybabies is to ignore them. These people come out of obscurity to wail and moan about some new 'racism du jour,' flinging crap and moral outrage, hoping their crap sticks to the wall.

Oftentimes, it does not stick and even the rabid leftists soon forget about it.

This may be just from a handful of social media attention whores who wish to make it into the big leagues.

It IS telling, though, and confirms that the people who cry about 'racism' the most, are themselves the people who obsess over skin color and race the most. . .



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