You want to see some raging, flaming, over-the-top, old-school racism? No, you don’t, but I’m gonna show it to you anyway.
White nationalist Jared Taylor gripes that having a Black actress play The Little Mermaid "is all part of the sick and sickening adoration for Blacks and loathing for whites we see everywhere." pic.twitter.com/oBHROSvXIc
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) October 4, 2022
OK, I hear you wondering…who the heck is Jared Taylor? Here’s what Amazon has to say.
Jared Taylor has a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Yale University and a master’s degree in international economics from l’Institut d’ Etudes Politiques de Paris.
He has worked as an international lending office for a major New York bank and as a consultant to companies doing business in Japan. For three years he was the West Coast Editor of PC (Personal Computing) Magazine, and has published articles and essays in the following publications:
Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, Washington Star, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, National Review, Chronicles.
Since 1994, Jared Taylor has been the president of New Century Foundation, which publishes the American Renaissance website (AmRen.com).
Amazon used to sell all of his books, but in March, 2019, it banned the following titles written or edited by Jared Taylor:
A Race Against Time: Racial Heresies for the 21st Century, 2003, New Century Books, 331 pp.
White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century, 2011, New Century Books, 344 pp.
Face to Face With Race, 2014, New Century Books, 211 pp.
If We Do Nothing: Essays and Reviews from 25 Years of White Advocacy, 2017, New Century Books, 254 pp.
Jared Taylor lives with his family in northern Virginia near Washington, DC.
It starts off fairly normally (I had no idea he was an editor for PC Magazine), and then gets around to mentioning the New Century Foundation — a prominent funding source for all kinds of hate — and the American Renaissance, where Michelle Malkin and Pat Buchanan are still welcome contributors.
I know — I didn’t know Pat Buchanan was still alive. He is.
And then we get around to his racist books, which Amazon has banned. Cancel culture! But they really are terrible, stupid books as the video above shows.
Jared Taylor still gets invited to give talks. The latest was at ASU, where he was invited by the College Republicans. Republicans don’t mind associating with notorious racists, I guess.
He’s comically racist. He thinks the white race is going to miscegenate ourselves into extinction
because…
There are just too darned many mixed-race couples in TV ads! Yeah, he seems like the kind of guy who sits up late watching Fox News and getting mad at all the pharmaceutical commercials because they’re just not white enough.
These people actually exist. It shocks me every time.
I keep reminding my MAGAt relatives that by 2045 – white people in the United States will be a minority.
They then leave the conversation FUMING MAD into the other room! HAHA!
Maybe if enough bigots die something will change… it’s just that they keep producing more-and-more of them.
I, too, have noticed mixed race couples in TV ads; but I took it as a good sign that we’re moving in the right direction. Maybe some day, if we’re lucky, we won’t notice it any more (though not likely in my lifetime).
Wait till he discovers that marvel Studios have re-imagined She-Hulk as a green woman!!! It’s wokeness gone mad!!
Regardless of who is cast, Disney’s “Little Mermaid” still relies on sexist ideals. She has to give up her voice in order to be with her man, yet he doesn’t have to sacrifice a thing. Heck, he can’t even be bothered to learn how to swim.
Talk about an exaggerated image.
Here in Belgium, Douwe Egberts (a coffee brand) has had a nice campaign this year featuring a white couple, where a father has a sweet family moment with his daughter and her girlfriend.
Oh wait … lemme guess … he won’t like the either? Good.
Not terribly long ago I watched an old Marilyn Monroe film. (I can’t even remember the name of it now.) It came out in 1951, right around the time I was born. It showed the America I was born into.
For one thing, watching this film, you’d never guess that there were POC in the country at the time. You certainly didn’t see any in the film. Of course there were a few women. There had to be. We can’t do without women altogether, though they must remain in their proper secondary roles. Marilyn Monroe played a legal secretary, e.g., not a lawyer.
But in what I saw as a pivotal scene in the film, a man was giving a speech to the Chamber of Commerce, or some organization like that. Every last face in his audience was white and male. This was a function the guys didn’t even bother bringing their wives to.
White, right-wingers, this is what cancel culture is: when you’re not even seen, when you have a limited or perhaps even non-existent social standing in the land of your birth. Cancel culture is what you did to us. It’s not what is being done to you. Losing the power to cancel people is not the same thing as being canceled yourselves.
“I am, I said, to no one there . . . “
@1, can’t happen soon enough.
Re: heffe7 @ #1…
California has been minority majority for some years now. No noticeable change in day to day existence. It is, though, so far as I know, still non-hispanic white plurality.
Interesting dates on the tombstone. He starts it one year after the California State Supreme Court threw out California’s anti-miscegenation law. (And that decision was cited in the 1967 decision in Loving v. Virginia.)
So what is wrong with being a mix anyway?
Most of us are already of mixed ethnic heritage.
I don’t have any statistics because they probably don’t exist.
They don’t exist because no one really cares.
The world didn’t end because everyone is half this, a quarter that, and an eighth something else.
And hybrid vigor definitely exists.
The line between Pure Bloods and Inbreds is very thin.
Disneys version of the Little Mermaid is sexist princess trash, with lots of catchy tunes.
The actual story is about the dangers of not being true to yourself, and she dies because the Prince doesn’t even notice she exists.
<And hybrid vigor definitely exists.
Hybrids result from two different species reproducing. All humans are the same species, regardless of their ethnicity or complexion.
Not even close to the truth. You could have spent 2 seconds on Google and figured that out.
To get a hybrid, all you need is a cross between two organisms with different genetic backgrounds.
They can be different species but most of the time they aren’t.
Most corn in the US is hybrid corn.
My cat is a hybrid.
I am a h. Sapiens – H. Neanderthalis hybrid. All Europeans have at least 1% neanderthal DNA.
If you run into a human-sized omnivore organism you have other problems than the color of said organism.
There is one extant species of Homo. Claiming that race mixing = hybridization is the basic idea behind racism.
Hybridization might have driven the Neanderthals to extinction though, as it frequently results in sterile offspring. All the Neanderthal sequences found in modern humans come from female Neanderthals.
One of the streaming services needs to do a live action version of Rumiko Takahashi’s Mermaid Saga, stat. Then he can be all upset about the mermaids being Asian, and flesh eating monsters as well. He’ll ignore that Japan has its own mermaid traditions.
This ad has been airing on Canadian TV this summer. I’m sure he’d hate the fact the lovely couple are having a baby, and hence Canadian Tire id encouraging white replacement.
There is a Polish film about two carnivorous mermaids. They look aryan, so the human-eating hobby is probably OK.
Asian analogs to western critters are different.
There are Chinese “vampires” but they eat flesh instead of thinking blood.
Fun fact: They move around by jumping with their legs pressed together. How do they catch up with their victims?
The one film I know of with these ‘vampires’ was unintentional comedy.
The Japanese vampire analogs are also flesh eaters.
Aren’t many marine organisms able to change color? That might be what the white power loons are afraid of, you might marry a black or Jewish mermaid.
Well, he stopped short of claiming they want to create a mongrel race. So there’s that. I remember vividly seeing a white robed KKK speaker saying exactly that.
these people are so irrational that I am at loss as to what to say. I have always felt uncomfortable when such a level of irrationality becomes apparent. most people who are racist to some degree or other do not see themselves as such because the “differences” they think they see are in fact real and are somehow significant, when the majority of what we are seems to be learned and not “predestined” by our DNA at all. Like I said I do not know what to say
The white couples in TV commercials were all Reptilians. It was a scam all along.
The important question – as David Icke has made clear – is, are they Jewish Reptilians?
Shocks you? I live in NYC. It’s incomprehensible to me that morons like him still exist . The NYC helpline has 176 languages . He must not get out much . Last time I went down south I felt like they were clones in just 2 colors variants. How boring !!!
It doesn’t shock me. I’m one of those horrible miscegenating white guys. I’ve seen first hand how deep the bigotry goes and its not confined to white guys who have their snowflake pure feelings hurt.
Tethys @16:
Could that be because the only Neanderthal DNA they looked at was from mitochondria?
@billseymour
No, they aren’t making that determination from mDNA. The Y chromosome of Neanderthals is absent from modern human males. There are many theories, but male sterility resulting from hybridization may be a contributing factor to their
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2016-04-08/neanderthal-y-chromosome-disappeared-from-modern-men/7308982
to their extinction
No it isn’t.
Claiming that race mixing = hybridization is just a fact.
(Rather than admitting you were wrong, you just called me a racist. This is a logical fallacy, argument by insult. I’m not impressed with your reasoning ability.)
BTW, as I pointed out, hybridization is generally a good thing.
Hybrid vigor aka as heterosis is an ancient discovery and the basis of our highly successful agricultural systems.
It is also why you aren’t supposed to breed with your siblings, parents, cousins, or close relatives.
In words you might understand, inbreeding is not a good idea.
Not true again.
You are pretending to knowledge you don’t have.
There is no way to determine whether the vast majority of autosomal Neanderthal DNA in the human genome is from males or females.
What we do know is…
Apparently at some point, the H. sapiens Y chromosome replaced the Neanderthal Y chromosome in Neanderthals.
Once again, what hybrids means in biology.
There is no requirement that hybrids be from different species.
Our agricultural systems work because most corn and a lot of rice are…hybrids between different genetic lines.
Tethys is unwilling or unable to read simple English.
Not wasting any more of my valuable time on them, so someone else can sound out the two syllable words for them.
Apparently what I assume is simple and common knowledge isn’t.
The whole reason we can feed 7.9 billion people is because of modern plant breeding. Most of the corn and rice we plant every year are…hybrids.
“Hybrid seed production is predominant in modern agriculture and home gardening.”
This works because the hybrids are genetically superior in the sense that we have selected them for, higher yields.
and
This talk about Neanderthals and about race mixing and about hybridisation seems a long way from the subject at hand.
This is about the portrayal of an imaginary character in a fantasy story.
Haven’t read it, myself, but just Googled:
Her skin was as soft and tender as a rose petal, and her eyes were as blue as the deep sea, but like all the others she had no feet. Her body ended in a fish tail.
(So, canonically, blue eyes — though it is a fantasy and IRL the sea below around 200m is dark — no blue there)
—
I think it’s pretty simple; white people in white cultures have internalised their perception of protagonists, and of course for a very long time it was the thing to portray every character — even explicitly non-white characters — with a white actor.
In short, the default setting is ‘white’. And some people can’t see that in themselves.
[and, of course, mermaids are chimeras, not hybrids]
Mermaids are clearly ectotherms. Why else would they spend their time basking on rocks, singing enchantments to passing sailors?
As for the Cawing above.
Yet you’ve ignored my actual comment that took issue with your wildly racist claim about race and human hybrids, and spent a lot of words explaining how humans have artificially hybridized corn into something called
F1 hybrids. You may wish to keep educating yourself. Dog breeds are not hybrids, but rather inbreds, as all dogs are one species.
She BTW.
The original Little Mermaid story is a horror story.
Someone should make a movie true to the original.
@raven
“Claiming that race mixing = hybridization is just a fact.”
You are mixing social and biological concepts.
“Race” is a social concept, and the way you use it is pretty much limited to American culture anyway.
Human races as a biological concept do not exist. Hence hybridization in the sense that you are using is not applicable.
@ ^ lasius : Agreed. “Race” certainly isn’t a scientific reality though it is very much a socio-cultural one.
@34. Tethys : Bwuh? Dogs can mean a range of species ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canidae ) as well as the familiar Canis lupus familiaris and Dingoes. Dogs can be inbred but it’s often really bad for them resulting in a lot of medical and health issues and dog breeds famously cross and are incredibly variable from Chihuahuas to Great Danes, Pugs and poodles to St Bernards and Irish Wolfhounds and so very many more so whilst dogs are technically one species (imagine trying to convince future palaeontologists of that once they’ve gone extinct!) they do come in crosses or hybids like my new cross of jack Russell x Maltese x Staffy x very likely some other breeds and types too..
@32. John Morales : Just one unnamed fictional individual mermaid description from one source that isn’t named?* That’s hardly representative and open to sample size bias and, of course, they are fictional / mythological anyhow.
When it comes to varieties of mermaids it seems there’s quite a few already including the Greek, Irish and :
Source : https://youtube-mermaid-shows.fandom.com/wiki/Mermaids_(Species)
All those seem unlikely to have extremely pale or white skin to me and much more probly resemble the brown or black-skinned local humans in their human halves. There’s an Indian one there too..
As for specifically Ariel and in Western art especially :
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-greek-mythology-tells-mermaids-shades
Perhaps this is exactly your point but there’s no mention of skin colour there only that it was soft and tender as “a rose petal” which hopefully for the mermaid is more poetic allegory than its actual tensile strength otherwise its hard to see her lasting very long!
Since merfolk are mythological unless we’re trying to hew closely to a particular set of myths about them for cultural verisimiilitude in fiction they can be whatever the writers (or readers) can imagine them to be. Can’t they?
.* It now occurs to me that you meant the original Hans Christian Anderson Little Mermaid story perhaps but, if so, that wasn’t specified.
I find it deliciously ironic that a conservative (I presume ultra conservative) person is ranting about corporate America’s choice of advertising models, as if it meant more than what other conservatives are wont to call virtue signalling. If we were to believe the ads we see, nearly every couple would be light biracial (but not too dark) and nearly every bank employee or office worker you ran into would be a slim, attractive young biracial woman (but not too dark). Of course we can bet that they’re not finding those models in their own offices.
I also find it pretty strange to contemplate that in this day and age, banks and Insurance companies might be ahead of the curve on social change. Maybe there really is honor among thieves.
See also :
https://everythingmermaid.com/types-of-mermaids/
too with some, er, intresting in (mer)person recreations.. Safe for work .. probly I think. Unless your work is extremely prudish. No nudity or toplessness.
FWIW . Someone cretaed a meme sene recently (on, ahem, facebok) depicting a (cartoon) described as /showing a Black lesbian Velma, as a mermaid playiga crystal flute while taking a knee to mock the reichwing “snowflakes” and the things that “trigger” them..
^ “Black lesbian Velma, as a mermaid playing a crystal flute while taking a knee..” / fix
You are conflating hybrid, breed, and variety. All dogs are one species Canis familiarus. Any cross between dog breeds will result in Canis familiarus. If you cross a dog with a different (but closely related) SPECIES like Canis Lupus, that is a hybrid. Canis familiarus x lupus
garydargan That reminds me of my family history. Great great grandmother was white married to an American Indian. They lived in the south and she wasn’t allowed to live in the same house as her husband. She had her house burned down by a racist arsonist. Luckily she was able to get out but the house was a total loss.
Back on topic , mermaids should be colored like nudibranchs as far as I’m concerned
Hans Christian Andersen did specify the Mermaids skin tone. She is pea green, though I don’t remember if it changes when the sea hag gives her feet. The original story emphasizes that every step taken by the mermaid is as painful as walking on shards of broken glass, but Ariel does not have that problem.
@ ^ Tethys : Thanks.
Wonder if that’s where Gene Roddenberry got his green-skinned Orion women from?
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Orion