Talk:The Little Mermaid (live-action film)/@comment-26423071-20190708200532/@comment-1672596-20191009041618

""A Wrinkle in Time" changes everyone's race, and no one complains."

Actually, I don't think A Wrinkle in Time ever actually stated what various characters' races were in the first place (and I read that book back in Middle School). Besides, that movie already HAD quite a few complaints levied against it for gutting the Christian elements from the original book, apparently thanks to Oprah demanding they be gutted.

""Ant-Man and the Wasp" changes Ghost's race, and no one complains."

Ah, he's a guy constantly wearing a white hazmat suit to disguise severe deformities due to "corporate greed" or something. I don't think most people even KNOW what his race is like underneath in the original comics, let alone in the movie.

""Lady and the Tramp" changes the races of all the humans, and no one complains."

Who said people didn't complain? And quite frankly, if that was true, I'd definitely be pretty ticked off as well.

""Descendants" changes Cruella De Vil's race, and no one complains."

Well, yeah, I'd complain, she's British (well, I suppose technically she's of French descent due to her surname, but still...), and blacks aren't exactly that common in the UK. Besides, I wasn't fond of Descendants anyhow thanks to really warping history (Cruella shouldn't even have been CONCEIVED at the time of the other characters, many of whom ought to be long dead going by chronology. Heck, she shouldn't even have a descendant anyways due to her technically being the most current villain of them, and if anything she herself needs to be a descendant.). That movie has far worse going for it than just her ethnicity change.

Seriously, if you are going to bother trying to dismiss complaints against Ariel's ethnicity change, I suggest you get a LOT better examples than that.