Thank you for the well-researched article. It's nice to see an honest take on the issue that sees both sides of the controversy without attacking anyone. It also says a lot when no one else has clapped for your article or commented on it, while many other trigger-happy articles that call out the "evil white people" for being remotely annoyed at the Little Mermaid trailer received dozens of claps and comments on Medium. Such a shame, the Medium community going down this road of one-sided biasness that Twitter is notorious for.

I've highlighted the part of your article that I find to be the most important point. I'm a Chinese and have received my share of racist remarks, but even I find the double-standards of this "outrage" against "evil white racists" disingenous. Were there racists who had a problem with Halle Bailey's casting? For sure. Racists are still around, and not in small numbers either. But merely dismissing all annoyance as "racist" remarks over-simplifies the complex conversation of race, especially when you're dismissing the feelings of white people who felt represented by the original animated movie. On a personal level, I never said I hated the remake because Ariel's black; I've repetitively stated that my issue with it is that Ariel's originally white, and you're celebrating your replacement of someone else's representation*. As you've eloquently stated in your article, people would rage if Tiana was whitewashed.

*Worth noting is that Hans Christian Andersen's unnamed Little Mermaid might have borrowed from black culture for all I know (as I've heard certain complaints that Hans performed cultural appropriation), but for all intents and purposes, Ariel from Disney's cartoon is 100% definitively white.