CNN’s Lisa France Calls Out Matt Walsh’s ‘Little Mermaid’ Racism Counterpoint

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Star Wars’ characters, they aren’t real. Hobbits, they aren’t real. Why are people, why do — I mean I know why — but you have people who get so upset about these total, it’s not like they’re changing some sort of historical figures, so I just don’t even get it.”France responded by addressing the reality of racism and pointing out when exactly those who object to the trend of racially diverse characters make the conversation about race, using Daily Wire host Matt Walsh’s recent counterpoint to the situation as an example.“Racism is real, unfortunately, and people get so offended,” France said. “Those who say we always try to make things about race, people make it about race when they’re online and they’re trying to debate the fact that, ‘Oh, she couldn’t have darker skin because she’s a mermaid and she’s under the water and the sun wouldn’t be able to reach her.’ That’s about race.”Walsh objected from a “scientific” standpoint, to the Little Mermaid having darker skin, suggesting that her living in the depths of the ocean wouldn’t make that possible.“With ‘The Little Mermaid’ can we can we also just mention that from a from a scientific perspective, that it doesn’t make a lot of sense to have someone with darker skin who lives deep in the ocean?” Walsh said. “Not only should the Little Mermaid be pale, she should actually be translucent.

If you look at deep sea creatures or like translucent, they have no kind of pigmentation whatsoever. And they’re just like these horrifying, they look like skeletons floating around in the ocean.

That’s what the Little Mermaid should look like. She should be totally pale and skeletal where you can see her skull through her face.