| 2MuchMark |
12-07-2015 04:47 PM |
LOL! Racists love Donald Trump Urge Boycott of Star Wars coz' Black Guy
I mean come fucking on...LOL!!
Racists Urge Boycott of ?Star Wars: Episode VII? Over Black Lead, and Most of Them Love Trump - The Daily Beast
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Racists Urge Boycott of ?Star Wars: Episode VII? Over Black Lead, and Most of Them Love Trump
#BoycottStarWarsVII, which trended all day Monday on Twitter, is the brainchild of conservative Trump supporters against the diverse casting of J.J. Abrams?s sequel.
A wise Jedi once warned, ?Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.? Ahead of tonight?s debut of the new Star Wars: Episode VII?The Force Awakens trailer, it also led to a flurry of racist tweets fueled by the #BoycottStarWarsVII hashtag warning that the new Star Wars movie promotes ?white genocide? and was made ?to demoralize and destroy Whites.?
Somewhere in a galaxy far, far away, shaking his damn head, Yoda is.
Laughably enough, the racist, misogynistic, and anti-Semitic crusaders of the #BoycottStarWarsVII movement completely miss the point of every lesson ever built into the Star Wars franchise.
But it?s telling that their outrage came to a head only when the Star Wars marketing campaign began making its push into the mainstream. Tonight?s trailer hits during Monday Night Football to push the new flick to the normcore dad masses and to non-diehards who maybe, probably, haven?t even heard there?s a new Star Wars movie coming out, let alone know or care that a black man and a woman lead the cast.
Clearly, these so-called fans aren?t too well-versed in their Jedi history. Their tweets raise many questions, like: Do the #BoycottStarWarsVII realize their hatred violates Yoda?s teachings? Have they forgotten Samuel L. Jackson as Mace Windu and Billy Dee Williams as Lando Calrissian, or realize that the Imperial Stormtroopers were cloned from the genetic material of Mandalorian bounty hunter Jango Fett, played by part-Maori thesp Temuera Morrison?
Do they know Darth Vader was voiced by James Earl Jones? Or that it was the good guys of the rebellion who were accepting of other races and species as they battled the overwhelmingly pasty-white evil villains of the Empire?
Perhaps not shockingly, a deep dive into the #BoycottStarWarsVII hashtag (which is now, delightfully, dominated by true blue fans ridiculing the racists), yields a curious overlap of racist Star Wars invective and pro-Donald Trump tweets. Here?s a rundown of the core tenets of the #BoycottStarWarsVII movement:
STRAIGHT UP RACISM
British actor John Boyega plays redeemed Stormtrooper Finn, one of the new young leads of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Yes, a black Stormtrooper. Internet racists already got their panties in a bunch when the first teaser trailer revealed Boyega sans helmet in his Stormtrooper uniform, birthing the #BlackStormTrooper hashtag last November.
The underlying belief, according to Twitter user @DarklyEnlighten, who identifies as a neoreactionary and with the Pro-Trump white supremacist ?alternative right,? and previously tweeted that he hopes Trump would turn out to be a fascist, is that Star Wars ?belongs? exclusively to white people. That?s admittedly underscored by the fact that when George Lucas made Episode IV: A New Hope in 1977, 99 percent of his cast was either Caucasian, or extraterrestrial aliens covered in prosthetics.
?George, is everybody in outer space white?? John Landis says he asked Lucas after watching the first Star Wars. An emphasis on diversity increased as the sequels went on?Billy Dee Williams showed up in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, earning instant legend status.
#BoycottStarWarsVII because it will be ghetto garbage. pic.twitter.com/SkNiqg8bKX
? Lord Humungus (@DarklyEnlighten) October 19, 2015
So now minority actors are stealing ?white parts?? Sure. Because there are so many non-white roles leading major Hollywood franchises they should be taking instead. Boyega replied to his haters with a smile back in November: ?To whom it may concern: Get used to it. :)?
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