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[Quonny]

A black lead and a female lead.

Imagine if it were a single black female lead. And she had...power.

 

[Slayven]

Who hurt this woman?

 

[D i Z]

the vast majority of tweets are calling out the idiot bigots. which sadly is causing it to trend way higher than it would have with the 1-3 bigots who started it (likely their goal in the first place)

I can't even find any racist tweets with it. Everything is simply calling it out as stupid.

Why? Not like it'll matter in any real regard.

#BoycottStarWarsVII #NotBloodyLikely

 

[entremet]

I thought the girl was white?

I thought Boyega was the lead.

 

[SaganIsGOAT]

Wow

That's all I can say

 

[Bobby Roberts]

This isnt' really a real thing. Although popularizing it made it real enough that actual racists came crawling out of the woodwork to latch onto it. So that's useful, at least.

But the whole thing was a big fat troll. It's basically only there for people to hit with a stick.

 

[Erevador]

Twitter was a mistake.

 

[Cheebo]

I thought Boyega was the lead.

Daisy Ridley is the main lead

 

[Sanjuro]

I thought Boyega was the lead.

I thought Harrison Ford was the lead.

 

[stufte]

That original hashtag seems a lot like bait that got took.

 

[Gordon Shumway]

#TROLLS

 

[Ploid 3.0]

I thought the girl was white?

What is white, really? (she might be, it matters not in the end. We all bleed)

 

[JDSN]

I thought the girl was white?

She is a woman, thats like half a white man.

 

[Regulus Tera]

I thought Boyega was the lead.

Co-leads?

She is a woman, thats like half a white man.

oh

 

[Savitar]

Did they hate Yoda?

 

[Hackworth]

This feels like a gamergate/chan op to troll the SJWs or whatever, and like everything related to this shitshow it's backfired on the originators.

 

[CreepingFear]

I thought Mark Hamil was the lead! I want to see Luke with Mara Jade and General Thrawn! This movie is going to suck!

 

[Blues1990]

With regards to the original twitter campaign, why exactly are people against the staring actors for Episode VII being nonwhite or male, where there are thousands upon thousands of Science Fiction novels, movies, & television serials that (mostly) have a cast of white actors & leading men? Wouldn't this be a good thing to have, rather than be a deterrent?

 

[The Bookerman]

Meh.

I just hope Boyega's not as bad as Hayden Christensen.

 

[Fantastapotamus]

Nobody tell those guys who James Earl Jones is

 

[Napoleonthechimp]

Can we just ignore these people? There will always be crazies, and these particular ones have no real power as no one worth a damn will give a shit about what they think.

 

[Regulus Tera]

With regards to the original twitter campaign, why exactly are people against the staring actors for Episode VII being nonwhite, where there are thousands upon thousands of Science Fiction novels, movies, & television serials that (mostly) have a cast of white actors? Wouldn't this be a good thing to have, rather than be a deterrent?

People are more likely to notice it in the biggest movie franchise of all time, I guess.

 

[CreepingFear]

Nobody tell those guys who James Earl Jones is

Simba's father.

 

[Loomer]

What about stormtroopers are they not white enough?

 

[Nairume]

Meh.

I just hope Boyega's not as bad as Hayden Christensen.

He's been fine in other stuff.

 

[LosDaddie]

So like 3 trolls got a trending hashtag, grats internet!

Actually if you look at this thread it almost mirrors the hashtag, just people throwing out random one liners. internet-ception.

Basically.
Like I said above, this is the same thing about Elba playing Heimdall. Outrage over the outrage

 

[A.D. Skinner]

But...there's two main heroes and one is white...or it doesn't count if it's a woman?

Of course it doesn't! When you have an issue with "a black" being a lead, a woman being the lead is also an issue.

Where's my Luke or Han? Where's my Obi-Wan or Anakin?

 

[darkinstinct]

This world has issues.

 

[Mesoian]

Luke O'neil's got it down.

https://twitter.com/lukeoneil47/status/656213732314378240

40% counter-trolls
30% blog post links
15% the aggrieved
10% content farm spam links
4% trolls
1% sincere

 

[MindofKB]

Please boycott Star Wars!

It will make getting a ticket easier for me.

 

[Tertullian]

Best use of this gif ever.

 

[Slayven]

With regards to the original twitter campaign, why exactly are people against the staring actors for Episode VII being nonwhite or male, where there are thousands upon thousands of Science Fiction novels, movies, & television serials that (mostly) have a cast of white actors & leading men? Wouldn't this be a good thing to have, rather than be a deterrent?

you answered your own question. Scifi and Fantasy unintentionally reinforces the "Mighty WHite Man" power fantasy, and couple that with the obsessiveness of the fanbase and you can see why shit pops off.

 

[Gordon Shumway]

This world has issues.

Is that your regular instinct, or..

 

[Jeevesmeister]

Man, who fuckin' cares? You can easily find a vocal micro-minority that believes anything. Especially with Twitter as huge as it is, you're never going to get a monolithic mindset on anything, especially Star Wars - where all the aliens have been racist stereotypes anyways.

 

[jacobeid]

There's no way that these people are serious.

Spoiler

I hope.

And whatever, if they are serious then I'm glad that they won't get to experience the glory of The Force Awakens.

 

[partyphone]

I feel like this is a 4chan sort of thing where they create the chaos to see what happens.

It's hilarious to see people legitimately using the hashtag because they're that racist.

this is pretty much what happened. this hashtag comes from /pol/ and they're just openly racist and white supremecist now. it's just a few people with a lot of socks.

 

[Toxi]

This brings up an interesting question: If someone says something obviously racist to troll, is that racism?

I would say yes, since I don't see how intent changes the action, but I get the feeling others disagree.

 

[SmackAttack]

Who hurt this woman?

I, um... what? How can people act like this?

 

[Aske]

Ah yes, Star Wars. That well known white mythology, starring (the voice of) James Earl Jones in its most important role.

Come on. We all know Star Wars is the product of Gungan culture. That'sa why yousa no likes it, mesa tink.

 

[Scientist Supreme!]

lol
Rey is the lead anyway.

 

[Currygan]

haha, I am actually surprised it took so long

just wait until they find out both leads are English

 

[Nokagi]

No one is boycotting shit and even if they did it would not matter at all. Just more stupid Twitter bullshit.

 

[BobTheFork]

Did people give a shit when Empire Strikes back happened?

You could see a strong effort to add diversity after everyone in A new hope was white. Now that amounted to a bunch of dead pilots and Billy Dee Williams but was there any of this horse-shite backlash?

 

[redmetal86]

Same people who boycotted the MCU because Heimdall is black.

Damn, now I want to see a remix of Gangsta Party with all of them.

 

[frankie_baby]

I thought Mark Hamil was the lead! I want to see Luke with Mara Jade and General Thrawn! This movie is going to suck!

Ah but Mark hamil's character has a black dad, that's nearly as bad

 

[LosDaddie]

So is Kylo Ren a white Sith? I know Phantasm trooper leader is female.

Man, who fuckin' cares? You can easily find a vocal micro-minority that believes anything. Especially with Twitter as huge as it is, you're never going to get a monolithic mindset on anything, especially Star Wars - where all the aliens have been racist stereotypes anyways.

Reminds me of when there was an actual sincere thread on GAF over racists comments on a YouTube video.

 

[Toxi]

Did people give a shit when Empire Strikes back happened?

You could see a strong effort to add diversity after everyone in A new hope was white. Now that amounted to a bunch of dead pilots and Billy Dee Williams but was there any of this horse-shite backlash?

Empire Strikes Back added Billy Dee Williams, but the dead pilots were in Return of the Jedi.

 

[Hoo-doo]

You do know you are all getting trolled, right?

 

[partyphone]

Twitter was a mistake.

kind of? the biggest problem is that twitter doesn't want to police its platform. the libertarian techbros think that housing racists, bigots, sexists, harassers of kinds, etc, is just the price you pay for free speech when it actually squelches speech. twitter and reddit are only marginally better than 4 and 8chan.

 

[brandonh83]

Did people give a shit when Empire Strikes back happened?

There was no internet then.