I am a time-traveling dolphin. An entity made of giant balls gave me the ability to breathe underwater, but this ability was recently stolen from me by aliens.
Sometimes I turn into a bird.
Minorities too. There’s a reason he was harping on shaving standards. Some people with curly hair get ingrown hairs when they shave every day. Causes infection and scarring. You can get a “no shave chit” - medical can excuse you from needing to be clean shaven.
Its mostly black men with these chits.
He’s trying to give anyone who wants one an excuse to remove any one who isn’t white enough (and male) from serving.
She, famously, has no idea how humans live. She is culturally distinct from the Europeans on the coast.
She has more in common with the fish that she speaks to. She’s basically a magic dolphin.
Meanwhile, the people in the OP image are humans (to my knowledge, I’m not a nerd). Humans who have lived in the human world with human pasts full of human culture which give context to their characterization. I’m sure their background stories matter to their fans.
Nobody argues about what color the scales on Ariel’s tail should be.
Sure but she didn’t, she’s not in the meme I’m critiqueing. I wouldn’t have that complaint about that situation. I’d have other complaints, if I wasn’t completely drowned in a bottle or something
George Floyd and Trayvon Martin were ordinary citizens living their lives, whose deaths were linked to (and probably caused by) oppression and racism. They never wanted national attention, certainly not for this.
Kirk was a propagandist whose speech contributed to the environment of political divisiveness, bigotry and intolerance. He was a public figure who thrived on the controversy caused by his hateful speech.
I can’t upvote this meme, it feels like false equivalence (I agree with the sentiment, though, it just… they don’t care if they’re being hypocritical. That’s their game).
He’s talking about getting rid of military members who can’t shave due to medical reasons.
context
People with curly hair can have ingrown hairs from shaving. Most people with no shave chits are black.
Don’t let him trick you into thinking this speech is just stupid. Its stupid, but he’s also trying to give generals plausible deniability to remove minority military members and women.