You sure have a lot of rules about what people are allowed to consider. Funny how you speak for the “general public” in a way that all the other people here aren’t part of that…almost like it’s just a rhetorical trick to elevate your own perspective, “silent majority” style.
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Well, maybe this new version will become the only one known to the general public as everyone forgets the decades old Disney version, making it irrelevant. Problem solved.
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Perhaps.
Though future kids will keep hearing ‘snow’ and ‘white’ and wondering… why?
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I mean, stick “Snow White” into Google (as a proxy for the general public) and see how far you have to scroll to pick up Rose Red.
Like how every kid was incredibly puzzled how Han Solo knew what a falcon was, and it ruined Star Wars for them not to have the name’s etymology provided. 
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Nah, too busy grumping about the misuse of ‘parsecs’.
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Does it really matter? Like I said, White is a common surname, and maybe she was born in a snowstorm.
Maybe she is a distant relative of Jon Snow and Walter White.
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That should have been the end of the debate right there. But 30 more comments driven by one obstinate commenter … nope. Switching the status of this topic to Normal.
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This is truly impressive: those two sentences contain, by my count, at least four claims of fact, each of which is exactly wrong.
We should also tell any other authors that they should stop writing new takes on old stories and themes, because unless they become more famous than the One True Correct Authorised Disney version, then their version is not just wrong, it’s irrelevant. I think you should have the honour of being the one to tell Neil Gaiman that his entire career has been a waste of time.
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I would love to read Mr Gaiman’s response.
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Absolutely true. Humans are all (with the exception of those with albinism) varying shades of brown. The differences are quantitative, not qualitative. Purely “but how brown are you?”
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Ummm, pass, thanks?
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If I stuck Spiderman into google just 10 years ago - it wouldn’t have turned up a Black/Latino kid. And spidey has sold a lot more product - a lot more recently. And he doesn’t even look like a spider.
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buT iTs In tHe nAmE!!! /s
I want a refund on this album! /s
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Ha! Boston Blackie isn’t even Black!
How dare they?!?
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I had no idea they were full of peas, but I guess it helps the green…
Wait a minute… The Green Hornet isn’t green, or a hornet!!
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But…but…the name is a descriptor!!!
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