Little Mermaid’s racist critics pollute magical undersea world with bigotry | Arwa Mahdawi

If your reaction to little Black girls feeling included is to dismiss is it as woke', then there is something deeply wrong with you

Grown men are getting triggered by a little mermaid. Disney recently released a trailer for a new live-action version of the Little Mermaid starring Halle Bailey, a Black actor, and it has sparked a depressingly predictable racist backlash. The trailer has received 1.5m dislikes on YouTube and caused a lot of bigots to have a conniption fit. If you're getting a sense of deja vu about all this, it's because the same people already had a meltdown in 2019, when the live-action remake was first announced.