Ben Shapiro mocked for “bigoted” reaction to ‘Snow White’ casting

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Disney’s casting of Rachel Zegler as Snow White.In 2021, it was announced that the West Side Story actor had been cast as the iconic princess in the 2024 live-action adaptation of Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs.Following the leak of “misleading” set photos earlier this month, many have criticised the decision to cast Zegler – a Latina woman – in the role, and Shapiro has now shared his own comments.“Her name is Snow White.

Now you may consider that racist, but that’s also the name of the actual fairytale,” the conservative commentator said on his radio show, The Ben Shapiro Show.Quoting a description from the original 1937 movie, he read: “‘Skin as white as snow.’ That’s literally in her name, that’s why she has her name.”Shapiro described Zegler, who is of Colombian and American descent, as a “very talented person”, before continuing: “It’s weird casting, you might say.

I don’t understand. There are certain parts that are racially specific. I mean very clearly so.”He argued: “Snow White is maybe the only racially specific white princess because it’s in the name.

It’s very strange to me that if you cast Alexander Hamilton as a Black person, that’s totally fine, but if you cast Martin Luther King as a white person, that is totally unacceptable.”“Maybe you should cast people as like what the description of the part is,” he added. “There are certain parts where the person is described as white, and that’s ok.