The Little Mermaid drama continues, as racist backlash about the movie seems to have led to abysmal box office numbers in China and South Korea. Just like the hate campaign against the movie in the US (which included the infamous #notmyariel hashtag), Chinese and South Korean social media were inundated with bad, unverified reviews and outcry over the casting of a Black Ariel. Overall, the reaction wasn’t a surprise – Halle Bailey herself told the Face that “as a Black person, you just expect it and it’s not really a shock any more”. Why, though? Why was the fallout from...