The Force Awakens…Racism?
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The Force Awakens…Racism?
October 21, 2015 – The new Star Wars trailer went live during Monday Night Football this week and the one of the things that the The Force Awakens might be awakening is… racism. Quickly after the launch of the full trailer, numerous fans took to social media to boycott the film which features black actor, John Boyega.
The racial light-sabering began after the first trailer was released showing Boyega as a Stormtrooper.
The new trailer shows Boyega in a leading role and that didn’t sit well with some Jedis. Cries of “white genocide” started popping up online, quickly spawning the Twitter hashtag “#BoycottStarWarsVII”
#BoycottStarWarsVII because it is anti-white propaganda promoting #whitegenocide.
— End Cultural Marxism (@genophilia) October 19, 2015
#BoycottStarWarsVII because it’s nothing more than a social justice propaganda piece that alienates it’s core audience of young white males. — Critical Spooking (@officialCritDis) October 19, 2015
Not everyone went to the “dark side” however:
#BoycottStarWarsVII folks, Lemme get this straight: Wookies, Ewoks & Droids are fine but a BLACK PERSON is a problem? Go home.You’re Drunk. — Audra McDonald (@AudraEqualityMc) October 19, 2015
While director JJ Abrams took a more diplomatic view:
#TheForceAwakens #MNF pic.twitter.com/yw6XvlpJNe — Bad Robot (@bad_robot) October 20, 2015
While some Star Wars devotees have since commented that their remarks were obviously made in jest, not everyone is laughing…
You decide –Is the #BoycottStarWarsVII campaign Funny or Offensive? VOTE and COMMENT now…
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let me go this straight… when we had Samuel L Jackson play Mace Windu did people complain about it no they even defended him when he was killed by palatine and anakin
So now why are people complaining get that we have John Boyega now as he is mainly like Mace Windu returned