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If anyone else on Earth wrote Obama care it would have been a scandal. If Hillary did it......hahaha.

The Media Claims That Racists Are Outraged Over A Black Mermaid. The Outrage Is Completely Phony, Of Course. The news of this casting was greeted with mild shrugs from the vast majority of grown-ups, who are too busy paying bills to worry about which actress is portraying a fictional fish woman in a Disney film. In some quarters, the news prompted exuberant celebration, as it finally explodes the pernicious and harmful myth that all aquatic creatures are Caucasian. Now little girls of all races can dream of one day living in a coral reef and doing battle with an evil octopus who communicates her dastardly plans via spontaneous musical numbers. Most people don't care about any of this and some people are way too excited about it. But that's not the story the media is telling. Google "Ariel" or "The Little Mermaid" right now and you will be greeted with dozens of articles reporting on an alleged "outrage" among "racists" who are very angry that their favorite cartoon mermaid has changed colors. #NotMyAriel was even trending on Twitter last night, with well over 100,000 people tweeting on the subject. The problem, though, is that easily 95% of the tweets in the #NotMyAriel hashtag are from people outraged at the people who are outraged about the casting. Go look through it yourself and you will be hard pressed to find a single person who appears to be authentically angry that Ariel isn't white. Almost everyone is angry that people are allegedly angry that Ariel isn't white. BET has an article declaring "Racists Are Big Mad That A Black Girl Is Playing Ariel In ‘The Little Mermaid.'" To prove that these "big mad" racists do, in fact, exist, BET provides precisely six tweets. Two of the tweets are from anonymous accounts with less than 10 followers. Two are from non-white people. Complex, The Daily Dot, and Pajiba did entire articles about one "racist" tweet from one now-suspended account. It appears that the account is a sock puppet with a stolen profile photo, which is probably why it's suspended. Now, I have noticed a few real people annoyed by the glaring double standard. A white cartoon character can be portrayed by a black actress but a black character could never be portrayed by a white actress. The "Aladdin" remake caught some griefbecause the woman playing Jasmine wasn't Arab enough. Movies that cast straight actors to play gay characters run afoul of the woke-squad. Just imagine the outrage — real, legitimate outrage — if Amy Adams was cast as Tiana in a "Princess and the Frog" remake. Yet the people who would be sent into convulsions of fury about that are the same people who cheer when a white character is changed to black. It is not "outrage" — and it certainly isn't racist — to point this out. The annoyance is over the hypocrisy, not the casting. Personally, I think people of any race should be able to play fictional characters of any race. It's all imaginary, anyway. Make James Bond black and Shaft white. Make them both Chinese. Make them green with purple stripes. Who cares? It's fiction. "The Little Mermaid" is also fiction, and so is the outrage surrounding it. This is yet another phony "backlash" invented by people who are ideologically invested in the idea that America is a racist country where even the mermaids aren't allowed to be black. It's like the Starbucks cupsall over again — something that provides progressives an opportunity to write scolding thinkpieces, and tweet self-righteously, and scream at a bad guy who exists only in their imagination. In the end, the outrage is about as real as a mermaid. But why should that stop the media from reporting on it?

It's not a problem that Nike doesn't want to make the shoe. The problem is 'Everything' is racist.

When I was a kid, every gangbanger in the country wore Starter jackets and fancy sneakers. For the longest the left was claiming that you can't assume that because someone is wearing these things that they are gangbangers. Well boys and girls and trannies.....we've come full circle.

And a pathetic approach would be to let them have it and encourage others not to. Unfortunately, Betsy is in no condition to defend her work.

But where does this end is the question? Are we to wait on CK's approval before we consume products? It's such a bogus argument. Some racist ran over people in Charlottesville, so is that brand of car a racist vehicle now? You may think these are stupid questions until you enter the world of racist shoes.

Move past what? Like Cleve said, it's not like Trump is going to assassinate her. We all know he's not 'presidential', you swing at him and he'll swing back. Its not like he's seeking them out, everyone wants to be in his crossheirs. I didn't know who Rapinoe was until she came out and made a big deal about going to the White House. Mission accomplished. But I agree he shouldn't be mixing it up with petty people. He's just making a bigger stage for them to perform on.

UPDATE Found the little crossdressing hobo a place to stay for the next 6 months to 2 years. Even got him a ride there. He decided to break into my jeep and steal my pistol right in front of the security cameras today. Cops probably wouldn't have done anything about it if he would have concealed the gun before exiting the vehicle. Tisk, tisk. I wish he would have just unzipped the soft top, instead of popping my window with a screwdriver, but then it probably would have been a while before I realized anything was missing. I should be mad as hell, but all those forced relationships he's about to be in just make me smile a little. I'm sure he's excited too. I don't even feel like making an insurance claim, I'll just eat this one for the memories. Hope the cops give me my gun back, it's really my only concern at this point.

He's not good enough to be a starter. He's good enough to be a backup, but considering the money he gave up in SF there is no way he would be affordable for that role. Add to the fact, if this particular guy had to backup a white QB the media would have a fit. He sunk his own ship.

Clearly, global warming caused his tears to evaporate before we could see them, but they were real.

Facebook is worldwide.

Well, not that it matters, but I don't go to Mexico for vacation. I mean I've been to Cancun and Cozumel and they're great places, but it's mainly business. You're right, I'm not likely to find myself down back alleys reading posters, but it's kind of silly to think that they're responsible for more than a tiny fraction of illegal immigrants. In the early years (80s-90s) the poster in some shanty town conspiracy might of held a tiny amount of weight, but those days are over. They are very well networked now and thick as thieves. I'm in Houston, probably the densest community of recent latino immigrants. I've heard plenty of first hand accounts on how and why people come here. That may sound weird, but people love telling the story of their journey. I've yet to hear anyone say a corporation or small business is over there recruiting their entire town. Nowadays you simply go where your extended family is best established, for obvious reasons. That's the extent of it.

I'm not saying your wrong, but I've never heard an illegal immigrant say they came here from an advertisement they read. Any examples you could link? I've been to Mexico many times, as far south as Villahermosa, never seen anything of the sort. Maybe it's more a Guatamalan or Salvadoran approach?

https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/07/02/us/denver-canadian-geese-food-trnd/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F Genius!

https://www.dailywire.com/news/49074/salvadoran-president-drowning-father-daughter-rio-james-barrett This guy gets it....

Right. Because we all move in lockstep with racists. So anything they touch, they own? Sounds empowering.

The ironic part is CK is working for some of the biggest 'slaveholders' on the planet.

Around 12:30 a.m. on Monday morning, Harmeet K. Dhillon, a lawyer representing journalist Andy Ngo, warned far-left criminal Antifa members that she plans on suing them “into oblivion.” “Goodnight everyone except Antifa criminals who I plan to sue into oblivion and then sow salt into their yoga studios and avocado toast stands until nothing grows there, not even the glimmer of a violent criminal conspiracy aided by the effete impotence of a cowed city government,” Dhillon wrote.

Another site said he took a banned supplement and lost eligibility because of it, but no one knows which supplement.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2019/06/29/report-washington-states-jalen-thompson-enters-supplemental-draft/amp/ He would have been one the best SS coming out this year. Would not be surprised to see Dorsey go after this guy, since it is the weak point of the secondary with Peppers being shipped out.

Julian Castro has tiny hands...

True and I wouldn't peg you as the protesting type, but you are on a public forum that could be read by anyone. You feel comfortable pegging OBF for what he believes based off what he says here. So by your own definition, or should I say the one you posted, you don't feel you've bordered on hate speech? I'm certainly not claiming you to be a bigot, but that definition could snare you real quick.

Not that it bothers me, but by that very definition you have ridiculed religious people for years (except muslims). In some ways justifiably so and some times unprovoked.

You could argue it's not tactful or based in reality, but is that criminal?