Comments by "Debany Doombringer" (@debanydoombringer1385) on "" video.

@thethrashyone This is right/left on the US political scale. The European one is different. In the US there is no "right" as there is in Europe because all political parties are liberal because the only government it's ever had is liberal. Where as in European governments there have been many, many different forms of government. From a purely liberal perspective right is less government and more freedom and left is authoritarian. It goes back all the way to our Founding and the compromises between Jefferson and Washington with Adams.
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@dibberz-v1z Yes it was. It combined Maoism with postmodernism. That was done in the US. It's been in colleges since the 90s. It's not supported because it's mainstream. It's mainstream because it worked it's way through the institutions and captured them to force it into the mainstream. It was seen in colleges but ignored thinking the real world wouldn't let it get far. We were wrong. Nobody anticipated these people getting high end jobs within business and governments to be able to push it onto the rest of us.
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@borginburkes1819 What? "Until 10 years ago, movies were almost exclusively white". No they weren't. Beverly Hills Cop, Batman (Commissioner Gordon was Billy D. Williams), Nutty Professor, Demolition Man, Blade, StarWars, on and on. It's not everyone else's fault YOU choose to not consume those movies. You sound like the stupid people claiming women were never in powerful roles when Bettie Davis would even disagree. Let's see Barbershop, Straight Outta Compton, Malcom X, etc all majority black casts and all performed well at the box office which means they were watched by white audiences. TV wise shows with majority black casts have scored high on TV ratings from Sanford and Son all the way to Family Matters and beyond. Get out of here with that made up bs take. Edit: I was VERY upset black characters were added by Amazon in Rings of Power because those races look like they do for a reason. You're adding US race bs into other races making it stupid. Why would a race that dwells underground have a black member? There's humans in it which certainly you can put that into, because it fits, but not Elves and Dwarves. You don't mess with someone else's work because it's disrespectful to that work. As for the Little Mermaid, his daughters represented each of the 7 seas and were the race of the people that resides near that sea per the mythology. Meaning they could have changed her to a different character very easily. Or make one based off African mythology, which does have some with mermaids, instead of another culture. Before you claim mythology from Africa doesn't draw audiences I'll remind you of the Lion King. I'm sure you didn't know it existed until now either like every other movie with black people in it. You're also ignoring they told the audience these changes and decisions were made because of "representation".
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@Lucas-cm2ky The origin of the myth that The Little Mermaid is based on is European. So she's white. It's a Brother's Grimm tale. Obviously the movie doesn't follow the orginal story completely just like Disney has Dineyfied every tale starting with Snow White, but aside from a much nicer ending for Ariel it's basis is close. She ends up cutting her legs off and offing herself in the orginal because the Prince doesn't know she exists because she can't talk to him and he gets engaged to someone else. Changing the race did impact the story because it's now set in the Caribbean, the Prince's mother is black, he was adopted apparently, the King is dead, and the Prince no longer saves her which he did in the orginal Disney animated film. It changed over 50% of the orginal film making it NOT a live version as described. That's not even getting into that Disney has the Princesses in their parks for little girls to meet and speak to so now there will be kids being confused when the Ariel they saw isn't the Princess they meet. It's honestly just creates a mess in many many ways.
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@emmi2670 So you're also agreeing that a person can't identify with a character except only based on their race? If there's a character that grew up poor, had friends that were constantly in and out of jail as teenagers, their family is Church going everytime the door is open type, but they just happen to not be Native, I can't possibly understand them or identify with what's happening in their head because they don't look like me. That's insane and not how anything works. It's like saying I can't enjoy Viking history because I'm not one. A "native" experience of media would be stories about MY culture, MY religion, MY history. Just sticking a Native in a European story doesn't make it magically mine now or somehow now part of my people's culture. So if I changed every character in Boys in the Hood to Native, Indian, Asian, that's somehow going to make them magically understand those characters that they couldn't before? I hate to tell you, but it's not their "native" (I can't even begin to explain how offensive it is to use that in that sense) to have because it's not from their culture. They're not European. It's NOT a US story or myth it's a European one just like The Lion King is an African one. Since the Lion King is African does that mean I can't understand the story unless instead of lions they used American dog breeds? You see how stupid that is? It's the same as what you're proclaiming as good. Just change the different animals to different races. Edit: In case you don't understand, that's what the ideology behind "representation" is. That people can't identify with a character that doesn't look like them. So by claiming that native experience crap means you agree because that's the only way that bit makes sense. You're also ignoring it's supposed to be a live action version of the animated movie which means an almost shot for shot reenactment except in things it's just simply impossible. It's not. Most of the movie was changed including the setting so the race swap made sense. Basically you're telling people of other races and cultures their cultures and myths have no value unless a European one is adapted to create it for you.
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