You can't just change the character's race

[Major Nikon]

[TDale313]

1. Can we also just marvel at the batshit craziness

Of gettting all bent out of shape over the race of mythical creatures like mermaids and elves and dwarves?

[OrangeJoe]

8. Slave trade

Given how many Africans were tossed overboard in the Atlantic by slavers is it any wonder that mermaids are black?

[Igel]

10. Mermaids were local.

And predated the Atlantic slave trade by 4600 years.

Babylonian, European, African, East Asian mermaids were all locally skin-toned.

Yes, mermaids were black. But not *all* mermaids were black. "There exists X in the set Y" is one thing; "All X are in the set Y" is quite another. It's highly unlikely that Homer's sirens were deemed black by those who read Greek when digammas were in widespread use.

[OrangeJoe]

11. OK

I was just being a smart aleck, but sure I think you're right.

[keithbvadu2]

2. What color/race/ethnicity was Jesus?

It depends on whose living room wall his portrait hangs.

[BWdem4life]

4. Not really

In her 2018 book What Did Jesus Look Like?, Taylor used archaeological remains, historical texts and ancient Egyptian funerary art to conclude that, like most people in Judea and Egypt around the time, Jesus most likely had brown eyes, dark brown to black hair and olive-brown skin. He may have stood about 5-ft.-5-in. (166 cm) tall, the average man’s height at the time.

https://www.history.com/news/what-did-jesus-look-like

[Major Nikon]

6. The white Jesus fans aren't too big on history

…or much anything else that involves critical thought

[BWdem4life]

3. oh, snap. nt

[Girard442]

5. And if he had been a waspy-looking dude...

...people of that time and place would have just thought something was really wrong with him.

[Marcuse]

7. Jesus would have had to wait until the gentleman was finished.

[Martin Eden]

9. Yeah, but ...

Little Mermaid is much more consequential than Jeebus.