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Someone Accuses Disney Of Whitewashing Their Characters, Gets Shut Down In The Most Epic Way
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Someone Accuses Disney Of Whitewashing Their Characters, Gets Shut Down In The Most Epic Way

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The subreddit MurderedByWords is described as “a place for well-constructed put-downs, comebacks, and counter-arguments.” These kind of thoughtful, factual, and satisfying responses are increasingly worth their weight in gold in this age of social media hysteria, where the bullies and trolls often get the upper hand.

The latest example of a perfect comeback was uploaded to the forum by Redditor BlackOrre. Somebody had criticized Disney studio’s choice of mixed-race characters in the movie ‘Big Hero 6,’ discounting multiracial Disney characters as not truly ‘diverse’ and suggesting that heroes should be ‘all or nothing.’

The response on Disney movies and racist people was epic, an informative blend of factual realism and personal experience that encouraged other multiracial people to share their own stories on ethnicity and racism. Because, as the word-murderer correctly states, the population of multiracial people in the USA is increasing rapidly and they can often feel marginalized. Sometimes deemed not sufficiently ‘one or the other,’ multiracial people can feel left out by members of their family, and endure crises of identity and belonging that are little talked about in society.

However, this response addressed some of the more positive aspects of a multicultural upbringing. Growing up with experiences from a variety of cultures can only be a good thing, as it increases empathy and understanding with human beings as a whole, to the world beyond your ‘in’ group. The more we understand that people of different ethnicity, culture, and language actually have far more in common with us than differences, the easier it is to embrace each other and live together in peace. Scroll down to see the exchange for yourself, and let us know what you think in the comments!

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    Danny Boi
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I watched this movie for the first time, the last thing on my mind was race. The most racist thing that I could think of at the time was: MARSHMALLOW ROBOT and JAPAN IS COOL!!!!

    rola
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Mixed race mess" what a hell of a thing to say about us...

    BusLady
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All my life, I've heard terms like "mutt" and Heinz-57", but in most cases, the person is jokingly referring to themselves, as in the comment above. But I'm not comfortable with it, and would not want anyone referring to me as such.

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    Lark Estelle
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    These experiences are very sad... I hope that one day ALL people accept others for who they are, not for their skin color.

    Maddox Cox
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i'm sorry about what i said, i was just saying white people should have more respect, i mean using "Straight White Male" as an insult is just rude, If you continue this hypocritical racist stuff, i will quit this site and just resort to other top ten sites like TheTopTens or DeviantArt's Top 10 Art section

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    Rafaella Bueno
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not from the US, but a half Japanese who will never not feel terribly ugly for not being white enough nor Asian enough. To top it off I never had any contact with my mom's family nor does she have any kind of contact with Japanese culture, so I don't even have the "good" part of being mixed and nothing at all in common with anyone whatsoever, not even other halfs. I taught myself Japanese and try to study the culture by myself, but it's obviously not the same. I don't even have a Japanese middle name to be called by like all my mixed friends. I'm so out of place that I can't be similar to even other mixed race kids. I'll just never belong anywhere.

    Ssss
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Reading that response was heart warming and hit the nail on the head for me. I grew up with the struggle of being mixed race and I feel that I always have to educate people. It's easy to forget that others know how you felt/feel. It's good to know there's a greater level of understanding out there

    Cam Rielly
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This kind of junk makes me worry so much about what my son will have to deal with. He's only 6 months and people already make racist comments about him because he is half Indian and we gave him an Indian name, but he looks 100% white. Most of our Indian friends say things like, it's good that he doesn't look Indian, and why didn't we give him an American name (by which they mean "white" because Indian names are American also), and that he is not Indian at all. I'm sure it's coming from a place of feeling discriminated against here, but it makes my husband and I both feel terrible, and I'm sure my son will hear these things when he's older and feel even worse. The white people don't say anything directly to our faces, but they make microaggressions and I'm sure they talk behind our backs. Also everyone says he looks just like me even though he looks like a white skinned version of his dad...I must be naive because it's just shocking to me that people really only do see color.

    Kiki
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Claiming that races shouldn't mix is racist in of itself.

    AwesomeKitty
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My friend is half Canadian and half Greek, and I see her thrive. She dances in Greek festivals, while visiting her pepere's in Canada. I think we all should be proud of our cultures we grew up with.

    Sage Jay
    Community Member
    6 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People say that they're for diversity, except only THEIR identity is valid... If you're LGB+ that doesn't make you better than straight people. If you're trans* that doesn't make you better than cis people. If you're nonreligious that doesn't make you better than religious people. If you're a POC that doesn't make you better than white people. Your identity doesn't make others' suddenly not exist.

    Rafaella Bueno
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Agreed 100%. Nobody is better than anyone. Is that not what they're supposed to be fighting for? Equality, not superiority.

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    Christina Sersif
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm so tired of people calling everything racist when in reality they aren't even using the word correctly. Racist means to feel your race is superior to all other races. Making a movie doesn't display that unless in the movie they say "my race is better". I doubt the movie says that so really people just stop. Being a minority in a white world doesn't mean the world is racist. It just means they're more white people than other races. I don't understand how that's racist.

    Lynn Noyes
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I''m pretty sure we once had a President who is mixed race. He seemed to turn out okay. He certainly wasn't a mess.

    Sanne H.
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Our three princesses Amalia, Alexia and Ariane are of mixed race. I think Amalia one day will make a great Queen.

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    Carmen Elena
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As we say in Peru... "el que no tiene de Inga, la tiene de Mandinga". (If you don´t have it from Inga, you have it from ManInga). We are all different, and we are all the same.

    BlackestDawn
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is one of the bigger reasons racism (and some other bigotry) has a really hard time dying out. Some people just need to see it everywhere so they can make a big stink about it, and thus make themselves feel important. As so many others have pointed out over time, by seeing bigotry everywhere it "cheapens" the genuin instances. Yes real bigotry should be called out, and loudly so, but we have to make sure that it actually is bigotry before we do so, not just something "negative" by some individual's personal definition.

    Ken Owen
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm half and half. In Japan I was instantly recognised as European, in England I was - you guessed it - instantly recognised as Asian. It never bothered me.

    Jeff Requier
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Very Racist to only want Pure races portrayed. Im agiasnt the whole Black actor actress playing a white character, but its a fact that people of mixed race are a thing now. Im fully behind everyone being completely intermingled. Say you have a kid whos parents are Black and White, the kid gets it from both sides. Not white enough and also not black enough

    Annabeth Chase
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A lot of people now are mixes of a bunch of races. I am German, Irish, Cherokee Indian, White and what ever the heck else is mixed in there somewhere. I have a German last name and a Irish/Scottish first name. This is an awesome movie and people need to stop bring things like race into it.

    Alusair Alustriel
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This brings to my mind how in fantasy a half-human half elf person is always called a half-elf and so on. You never read about a half-human. Take for example Dragonlance saga - you have Tanis Half-Elf. Those horrible attitudes towards mixed radces are everywhere... And should change.

    DeusCurrentMachina O.
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Bored Panda is responsible for stirring the pot as much as the MSM. A couple of years ago this wouldn't have been a topic, an issue, or anything in between. But since it's in style, every other article is race, Trump, and the ugliness of whites. Shameful.

    Carol Emory
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I grew up with my white aunt being married to a man who was half Filipino and half Muckleshoot Indian. He gained the skills of cooking from both cultures and let me tell you...every time my mom said we were going to my uncles house for dinner, I was jumping for joy because I knew we were about to eat some damn fine food. He was also the master disciplinarian without having to raise a finger. If you were misbehaving..he'd give you the stare. It was enough stop you in your tracks and to make you say "Awe c**p..sorry Uncle Mike."

    Isla Reyne
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is that Seren Sensei person who was banned from twitter for inciting racial hatred and who was all pissed off at Bruno Mars' "racial ambiguity" so he could supposedly culturally appropriate other styles of music. Truth: She detests anyone that's not 100% HER COLOR. If that's not racist I really can't tell you what is. She doesn't even like half black people. This woman needs therapy.

    Kiki
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Funny how she complains about cultural appropriation while using a Japanese word in her user name.

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    Avery Belisle
    Community Member
    6 years ago

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    Kelly Zhang
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I feel ya, even tho I'm full Chinese, I never went to China or any other country in fact. I get teased for being one of the 10% of the school. (btw whenever we (my friends) see another Chinese kid about my age, they ask if I'm his/her sister. AS IF THATS NOT THE MOST RANDOM THING because I've told them 1000000 times that I have 2 bro WAAAAAAAAAAY bigger than me

    Quinn Alexander
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The irony that their whole complaint is Disney faking their diversity, when their whole argument just screams "Someone called me racist online, probably because I was being racist, so here's me desperate to prove I'm not".

    Dom Hunt
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    another artical that could just be called, americas a stupid country

    Pollen the Pink Ninja
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Big Hero 6 is my FAVOURITE Disney movie!!!! I like how they're mixed race. It's a way to show more races in 1 person. I'm hella mixed race. I'm Indigenous Australian, white Australian, Scottish and Kiwi (for thos who don't know, white New Zealand). I've only been taught a bit of my Indigenous Australian side because of the very little culture taught to us in primary school and it's NOT ON THE HIGH SCHOOL ONE! (If you can't tell, it ticks me off). I'm EXTREMELY pale and look NOTHING like an Indigenous woman. Throughout primary school, I was denied of being Indigenous by students millions of times and once by my TEACHER! I'm only now getting to learn my language that were stripped from our grandparents during the stolen generation.

    Stannous Flouride
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I live across the street from the real house where Hero and his live in San Fransokyo and I feel it presents a very distorted view. In the movie our block is lined with lovely cherry trees rather than the horrible black bark acacias that are actually here. https://hoodline.com/2015/03/big-hero-6-used-masonic-haight-as-inspiration

    Natasha Pulman
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The vast majority of 'white' people are mixed heritage, just mixes of other 'light skinned' ancestry. My heritage is a crazy mixed bag but I'm aparently 'just' white. People just need to get over this 'race' c**p- it's culture/heritage/society the colour of your skin is inconsequential - the result of UV exposure and epigenetics - correlation does not equal causation. Be who you wanna be.

    Natasha Pulman
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The vast majority of 'white' people are mixed heritage, just mixes of other 'light skinned' ancestry. My heritage is a crazy mixed bag but I'm aparently 'just' white. People just need to get over this 'race' b******t - it's culture/heritage/society the colour of your skin is inconsequential - the result of UV exposure and epigenetics correlation does not equal causation. Be who you wanna be.

    Ruth Beaty
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Had a grandmother who was Choctaw/Cherokee/Irish/Scots, she had it rough as a kid, me not so much because I looked German with a dark tan. Two of my grandkids are part Mexican and all the rest of the mix (think there's some Jewish mixed in the German, French, maybe, Polish even) but just can't tell. It's sad mixed kids can't just grow up with all their cultures.

    JacekEU
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    no, race mixing is dying XX century concept. The world is now returning toward nation states and clear borders. There are just FEW multi racial countries in the world, all of them unstable and with high crime

    Nomadus Aureus
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wish it was just races.... Interethnic children are given s**t on a daily basis as well. Yet somehow we are even more overlooked, because well, "you're white, what you're on about".

    Lyone Fein
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Halfbreed, that's all I ever heard. Halfbreed. How I learned to hate that word. Both sides were against me since the day I was born....

    Sanne H.
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    From a genetic point of view, mixed race people are actually superior to single race people, since your gene pool is more diverse.

    Akinwale
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some people are just being woke into stupidity. Can't we just live and be peaceful for once without being involved in racial mess.

    Thomas Es Thomas
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm a big fat white man who would fit perfectly into big hero's costume. Were a member of another race to fall in love with me I would happily marry them. Our kids would be gorgeous. Within 500 years I believe there will no longer be races, we could all just be the same.

    Stella O.
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have a friend who's half hungarian, half venenzuelan...this is...wow.

    Tony Moon
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A mature response. Thanks for your input, I do hope to see it go away along with your attitude.

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    Sarah Hartness
    Community Member
    6 years ago

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    the way the world is going, there will eventually be no race or gender. We'll all be robots that do what robots tell us to do.

    William Teach
    Community Member
    6 years ago

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    Gotta wonder, why all this type of stuff so much? Can't we get more funny animals and stuff?

    Maddox Cox
    Community Member
    6 years ago

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    Seriously? This is just BuzzFeed. Dislike me all you want, i mean, i already have -6 points for telling roller coaster facts.

    XEOFIRE XEOCHANGE
    Community Member
    6 years ago

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    Nothing to do with this. I remember when no one liked interracial couples. Now it seems to be a fad. Not for real. Just a shout out for the ones who matter.

    Danny Boi
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I watched this movie for the first time, the last thing on my mind was race. The most racist thing that I could think of at the time was: MARSHMALLOW ROBOT and JAPAN IS COOL!!!!

    rola
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Mixed race mess" what a hell of a thing to say about us...

    BusLady
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All my life, I've heard terms like "mutt" and Heinz-57", but in most cases, the person is jokingly referring to themselves, as in the comment above. But I'm not comfortable with it, and would not want anyone referring to me as such.

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    Lark Estelle
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    These experiences are very sad... I hope that one day ALL people accept others for who they are, not for their skin color.

    Maddox Cox
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i'm sorry about what i said, i was just saying white people should have more respect, i mean using "Straight White Male" as an insult is just rude, If you continue this hypocritical racist stuff, i will quit this site and just resort to other top ten sites like TheTopTens or DeviantArt's Top 10 Art section

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    Rafaella Bueno
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not from the US, but a half Japanese who will never not feel terribly ugly for not being white enough nor Asian enough. To top it off I never had any contact with my mom's family nor does she have any kind of contact with Japanese culture, so I don't even have the "good" part of being mixed and nothing at all in common with anyone whatsoever, not even other halfs. I taught myself Japanese and try to study the culture by myself, but it's obviously not the same. I don't even have a Japanese middle name to be called by like all my mixed friends. I'm so out of place that I can't be similar to even other mixed race kids. I'll just never belong anywhere.

    Ssss
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Reading that response was heart warming and hit the nail on the head for me. I grew up with the struggle of being mixed race and I feel that I always have to educate people. It's easy to forget that others know how you felt/feel. It's good to know there's a greater level of understanding out there

    Cam Rielly
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This kind of junk makes me worry so much about what my son will have to deal with. He's only 6 months and people already make racist comments about him because he is half Indian and we gave him an Indian name, but he looks 100% white. Most of our Indian friends say things like, it's good that he doesn't look Indian, and why didn't we give him an American name (by which they mean "white" because Indian names are American also), and that he is not Indian at all. I'm sure it's coming from a place of feeling discriminated against here, but it makes my husband and I both feel terrible, and I'm sure my son will hear these things when he's older and feel even worse. The white people don't say anything directly to our faces, but they make microaggressions and I'm sure they talk behind our backs. Also everyone says he looks just like me even though he looks like a white skinned version of his dad...I must be naive because it's just shocking to me that people really only do see color.

    Kiki
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Claiming that races shouldn't mix is racist in of itself.

    AwesomeKitty
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My friend is half Canadian and half Greek, and I see her thrive. She dances in Greek festivals, while visiting her pepere's in Canada. I think we all should be proud of our cultures we grew up with.

    Sage Jay
    Community Member
    6 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People say that they're for diversity, except only THEIR identity is valid... If you're LGB+ that doesn't make you better than straight people. If you're trans* that doesn't make you better than cis people. If you're nonreligious that doesn't make you better than religious people. If you're a POC that doesn't make you better than white people. Your identity doesn't make others' suddenly not exist.

    Rafaella Bueno
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Agreed 100%. Nobody is better than anyone. Is that not what they're supposed to be fighting for? Equality, not superiority.

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    Christina Sersif
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm so tired of people calling everything racist when in reality they aren't even using the word correctly. Racist means to feel your race is superior to all other races. Making a movie doesn't display that unless in the movie they say "my race is better". I doubt the movie says that so really people just stop. Being a minority in a white world doesn't mean the world is racist. It just means they're more white people than other races. I don't understand how that's racist.

    Lynn Noyes
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I''m pretty sure we once had a President who is mixed race. He seemed to turn out okay. He certainly wasn't a mess.

    Sanne H.
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Our three princesses Amalia, Alexia and Ariane are of mixed race. I think Amalia one day will make a great Queen.

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    Carmen Elena
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As we say in Peru... "el que no tiene de Inga, la tiene de Mandinga". (If you don´t have it from Inga, you have it from ManInga). We are all different, and we are all the same.

    BlackestDawn
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is one of the bigger reasons racism (and some other bigotry) has a really hard time dying out. Some people just need to see it everywhere so they can make a big stink about it, and thus make themselves feel important. As so many others have pointed out over time, by seeing bigotry everywhere it "cheapens" the genuin instances. Yes real bigotry should be called out, and loudly so, but we have to make sure that it actually is bigotry before we do so, not just something "negative" by some individual's personal definition.

    Ken Owen
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm half and half. In Japan I was instantly recognised as European, in England I was - you guessed it - instantly recognised as Asian. It never bothered me.

    Jeff Requier
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Very Racist to only want Pure races portrayed. Im agiasnt the whole Black actor actress playing a white character, but its a fact that people of mixed race are a thing now. Im fully behind everyone being completely intermingled. Say you have a kid whos parents are Black and White, the kid gets it from both sides. Not white enough and also not black enough

    Annabeth Chase
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A lot of people now are mixes of a bunch of races. I am German, Irish, Cherokee Indian, White and what ever the heck else is mixed in there somewhere. I have a German last name and a Irish/Scottish first name. This is an awesome movie and people need to stop bring things like race into it.

    Alusair Alustriel
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This brings to my mind how in fantasy a half-human half elf person is always called a half-elf and so on. You never read about a half-human. Take for example Dragonlance saga - you have Tanis Half-Elf. Those horrible attitudes towards mixed radces are everywhere... And should change.

    DeusCurrentMachina O.
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Bored Panda is responsible for stirring the pot as much as the MSM. A couple of years ago this wouldn't have been a topic, an issue, or anything in between. But since it's in style, every other article is race, Trump, and the ugliness of whites. Shameful.

    Carol Emory
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I grew up with my white aunt being married to a man who was half Filipino and half Muckleshoot Indian. He gained the skills of cooking from both cultures and let me tell you...every time my mom said we were going to my uncles house for dinner, I was jumping for joy because I knew we were about to eat some damn fine food. He was also the master disciplinarian without having to raise a finger. If you were misbehaving..he'd give you the stare. It was enough stop you in your tracks and to make you say "Awe c**p..sorry Uncle Mike."

    Isla Reyne
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is that Seren Sensei person who was banned from twitter for inciting racial hatred and who was all pissed off at Bruno Mars' "racial ambiguity" so he could supposedly culturally appropriate other styles of music. Truth: She detests anyone that's not 100% HER COLOR. If that's not racist I really can't tell you what is. She doesn't even like half black people. This woman needs therapy.

    Kiki
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Funny how she complains about cultural appropriation while using a Japanese word in her user name.

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    Avery Belisle
    Community Member
    6 years ago

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    Kelly Zhang
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    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I feel ya, even tho I'm full Chinese, I never went to China or any other country in fact. I get teased for being one of the 10% of the school. (btw whenever we (my friends) see another Chinese kid about my age, they ask if I'm his/her sister. AS IF THATS NOT THE MOST RANDOM THING because I've told them 1000000 times that I have 2 bro WAAAAAAAAAAY bigger than me

    Quinn Alexander
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The irony that their whole complaint is Disney faking their diversity, when their whole argument just screams "Someone called me racist online, probably because I was being racist, so here's me desperate to prove I'm not".

    Dom Hunt
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    another artical that could just be called, americas a stupid country

    Pollen the Pink Ninja
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Big Hero 6 is my FAVOURITE Disney movie!!!! I like how they're mixed race. It's a way to show more races in 1 person. I'm hella mixed race. I'm Indigenous Australian, white Australian, Scottish and Kiwi (for thos who don't know, white New Zealand). I've only been taught a bit of my Indigenous Australian side because of the very little culture taught to us in primary school and it's NOT ON THE HIGH SCHOOL ONE! (If you can't tell, it ticks me off). I'm EXTREMELY pale and look NOTHING like an Indigenous woman. Throughout primary school, I was denied of being Indigenous by students millions of times and once by my TEACHER! I'm only now getting to learn my language that were stripped from our grandparents during the stolen generation.

    Stannous Flouride
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I live across the street from the real house where Hero and his live in San Fransokyo and I feel it presents a very distorted view. In the movie our block is lined with lovely cherry trees rather than the horrible black bark acacias that are actually here. https://hoodline.com/2015/03/big-hero-6-used-masonic-haight-as-inspiration

    Natasha Pulman
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The vast majority of 'white' people are mixed heritage, just mixes of other 'light skinned' ancestry. My heritage is a crazy mixed bag but I'm aparently 'just' white. People just need to get over this 'race' c**p- it's culture/heritage/society the colour of your skin is inconsequential - the result of UV exposure and epigenetics - correlation does not equal causation. Be who you wanna be.

    Natasha Pulman
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The vast majority of 'white' people are mixed heritage, just mixes of other 'light skinned' ancestry. My heritage is a crazy mixed bag but I'm aparently 'just' white. People just need to get over this 'race' b******t - it's culture/heritage/society the colour of your skin is inconsequential - the result of UV exposure and epigenetics correlation does not equal causation. Be who you wanna be.

    Ruth Beaty
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Had a grandmother who was Choctaw/Cherokee/Irish/Scots, she had it rough as a kid, me not so much because I looked German with a dark tan. Two of my grandkids are part Mexican and all the rest of the mix (think there's some Jewish mixed in the German, French, maybe, Polish even) but just can't tell. It's sad mixed kids can't just grow up with all their cultures.

    JacekEU
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    no, race mixing is dying XX century concept. The world is now returning toward nation states and clear borders. There are just FEW multi racial countries in the world, all of them unstable and with high crime

    Nomadus Aureus
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wish it was just races.... Interethnic children are given s**t on a daily basis as well. Yet somehow we are even more overlooked, because well, "you're white, what you're on about".

    Lyone Fein
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Halfbreed, that's all I ever heard. Halfbreed. How I learned to hate that word. Both sides were against me since the day I was born....

    Sanne H.
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    From a genetic point of view, mixed race people are actually superior to single race people, since your gene pool is more diverse.

    Akinwale
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some people are just being woke into stupidity. Can't we just live and be peaceful for once without being involved in racial mess.

    Thomas Es Thomas
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm a big fat white man who would fit perfectly into big hero's costume. Were a member of another race to fall in love with me I would happily marry them. Our kids would be gorgeous. Within 500 years I believe there will no longer be races, we could all just be the same.

    Stella O.
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have a friend who's half hungarian, half venenzuelan...this is...wow.

    Tony Moon
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A mature response. Thanks for your input, I do hope to see it go away along with your attitude.

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    Sarah Hartness
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    6 years ago

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    the way the world is going, there will eventually be no race or gender. We'll all be robots that do what robots tell us to do.

    William Teach
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    6 years ago

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    Gotta wonder, why all this type of stuff so much? Can't we get more funny animals and stuff?

    Maddox Cox
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    6 years ago

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    Seriously? This is just BuzzFeed. Dislike me all you want, i mean, i already have -6 points for telling roller coaster facts.

    XEOFIRE XEOCHANGE
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    6 years ago

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    Nothing to do with this. I remember when no one liked interracial couples. Now it seems to be a fad. Not for real. Just a shout out for the ones who matter.

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