Posted on 07/04/2020 11:03:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It will be incidents like this that will eventually do in Black Lives Matter and the mob witc- hunters looking to sniff out “racism” wherever it hides — or anyone thinks it.
The “Little Mermaid” statue in Copenhagen, depicting Hans Christian Anderson’s beloved little girl sitting on a rock, fins and all, was vandalized with the epithet “racist fish,” according to Danish authorities.
Famous Little Mermaid statue in Denmark is vandalised with 'Racist Fish' graffiti https://t.co/Lmt2YErZWj pic.twitter.com/5LcbeVJnRy
— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) July 3, 2020
A million people visit the statue every year and Anderson’s story has been immortalized in two Walt Disney movies. But that didn’t stop the racial-police mob from attacking it.
Naturally, Danish authorities are at a loss — as is anyone with more than two working brain cells — for why the statue or Anderson himself would be targeted.
Ane Grum-Schwensen, a researcher at the HC Andersen Centre at the University of Southern Denmark, told the Danish news agency Ritzau: “I am having a hard time seeing what is particularly racist in the fairytale The Little Mermaid.”
The statue had been a target of vandalism before according to an English-language Danish website:
The Little Mermaid, inspired by a character in Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen’s 1837 fairytale of the same name, is a 175-kilogram (385-pound) statue by sculptor Edvard Eriksen.
The statue has been vandalised numerous times over the years, including when the mermaid’s head was stolen in 1964 and 1998, as well as when an arm was cut off in 1984.
But why Hans Christian Anderson? Well, he’s white, of course. And then there’s that name — “Christian.” Got to be a racist, right?
Not hardly.
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RE: They wrote this in English?
Why not? It is a tourist spot and the Scandinavians all speak English.
So it is story about a Tamil boy who when confronted by a enemy with superior strength (the tigers) manages to bargain his way out of becoming lunch and then manages to turn his enemies against each other so they become lunch (ghee for his pancakes) for him and his family.
BUT because people are dumber then rocks this ethnic folk tale from India is considered "racist" against American blacks.
Everyone knows mermaids were black. This is blatant cultural appropriation and white supremacy.
Look at the evidence! The culprit was an ethnic FINN!
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