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[Mr. Giggles]

Lololololololol.

Wow. that swish motion gets me.

 

[Sanjuro]

I hope they are romantically involved in the movie. Implied sexy time would cause some people to melt down towards the earth's core.

 

[Mr. RHC]

Do androids dream of electronic leads?

 

[Inuhanyou]

I hope they are romantically involved in the movie. Implied sexy time would cause some people to melt down towards the earth's core.

That would be excellent, just like the kerfuffle the Star Trek movie caused for a bit

 

[Zibrahim]

 

[jmdajr]

Oh no. Good bye dozens of dollars.

 

[G.ZZZ]

I see all of the two users have created quite the stirring #someonesaidsomethingsomewhere

 

[uncelestial]

Han's hair is literally blown back by Lando's sexiness.

 

[Monocle]

I hope they are romantically involved in the movie. Implied sexy time would cause some people to melt down towards the earth's core.

Why can't JJ keep romance PURE instead of pushing his liberal agenda?

 

[Frog-fu]

Finnrey needs to be the endgame OTP by the end of this trilogy.

 

[TAJ]

I thought Boyega was the lead.

He seems to have more screentime.

 

[Ganzlinger]

A small, very vocal group of white supremacist shitposters on that board are furious that John Boyega was cast, and are convinced that it's part of a Jewish plot to get white women to have sex with black men. I'm not kidding.

lmao

Why Jews?

 

[Monocle]

lmao

Why Jews?

It's always the Jews. Don't you know anything?

 

[Toxi]

lmao

Why Jews?

Have you ever been to 4chan?

 

[XenodudeX]

I don't see why those small minority of those people are getting so worked up about it. Boyegas character is only there to prop up Daisy's character anyway. At least thats what it seems to me.

 

[HK-47]

Oh no. Good bye dozens of dollars.

DOZENS!

 

[Hamster Plugin]

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.

Did the original trilogy ever show Anakin Skywalker as a white guy, or is it something the prequels did? You could make the argument that the character is still white.

 

[EatinOlives]

You know racists are fighting a losing battle when they claiming Star Wars of all things is too diverse.

 

[Mr. RHC]

I see all of the two users have created quite the stirring #someonesaidsomethingsomewhere

Well, you should have seen the youtube comments for the first teaser. People actually were offended by Boyega.

 

[neojubei]

this gif is amazing

 

[Sendero]

I'm sure this was coordinated by /tv/ users.

A small, very vocal group of white supremacist shitposters on that board are furious that John Boyega was cast, and are convinced that it's part of a Jewish plot to get white women to have sex with black men. I'm not kidding.

Just out of curiosity.. why would Jews (or anyone) be interested on promoting that? What would be the end game plan?

 

[Animator]

The teeth of that dude in the back...

 

[TAJ]

lmao

Why Jews?

http://rense.com/general21/bet.htm

... in combination with people who hate both.

 

[SinShep]

Even racists can't resist this amount of swag.

Well that's saved.

 

[sphagnum]

lmao

Why Jews?

Traditional racism often holds that Jews are trying to take over the world or a destroy the culture of a "host society" (see Nazi hatred of Jews, claims about the "Jewish Bolsheviks", etc.) with all of the money that they supposedly have. Antisemitism is very old, going back millennia, for a host of reasons. It just gets tied into this stuff because it's all nonsense anyway, so it doesn't have to logically make sense.

 

[Zunja]

The whole, "we want an anti-pc movie," thing is so weird. Like what if this black dude was just legit the best actor they had audition for the role? Is that just not possible? it has to be PC?

 

[Crocodile]

Wonderful use of these gifs <3

 

[lastplayed]

Han's hair is literally blown back by Lando's sexiness.

lol

 

[Cramoss]

It always gets me.

I don't know, I still can't believe some people are serious about it. It is so stupid.

 

[sphagnum]

Just out of curiosity.. why would Jews (or anyone) be interested on promoting that? What would be the end game plan?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protocols_of_the_Elders_of_Zion

This is the go-to for Antisemites.

 

[Scrooged]

It looks like this was started by a few trolls on Twitter yet everyone is taking it seriously. smh

 

[Metalmarc]

Yeah I got trolled, fuck this shit

 

[Slayven]

lmao

Why Jews?

Old school racism that Jews control systems through money, and that they use blacks as their muscle/foot soldiers. There are old photos during the civil rights movement where people were telling blacks not to fall for jewish lies because they believed the civil rights movement was a jewish plot to take over the country.

Racists have a lot of time on their hands

 

[Moofers]

It looks like this was started by a few trolls on Twitter yet everyone is taking it seriously. smh

Yeah I don't know why we even give this any attention. The world becomes a little shittier and I become a little more dead inside for having known about this.

I think the internet is obsessed with making sure everyone knows about every goddamn dumb thing that some complete asshole or group of assholes says or does.

When it comes to this kind of shit, ignorance is bliss.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

It's three semi-pro twitter trolls. That's all it is.

Three.

http://www.vox.com/2015/10/19/9571309/star-wars-boycott

 

[Mushroomer25]

The whole, "we want an anti-pc movie," thing is so weird. Like what if this black dude was just legit the best actor they had audition for the role? Is that just not possible? it has to be PC?

It's not a point that people come to from a logical standpoint. They're basing it off a worldview where the only time minorities succeed is through affirmative action, or when an 'agenda' is being 'pushed' on them.

Shockingly enough, racism isn't a worldview shared by people with good critical thinking skills.

 

[Ganzlinger]

Have you ever been to 4chan?

thankfully, nope

It's always the Jews. Don't you know anything?

http://rense.com/general21/bet.htm

... in combination with people who hate both.

Traditional racism often holds that Jews are trying to take over the world or a destroy the culture of a "host society" (see Nazi hatred of Jews, claims about the "Jewish Bolsheviks", etc.) with all of the money that they supposedly have. Antisemitism is very old, going back millennia, for a host of reasons. It just gets tied into this stuff because it's all nonsense anyway, so it doesn't have to logically make sense.

aw man... I know about these stuff but I thought this time we had some hilarious "evidence".

edit:

Old school racism that Jews control systems through money, and that they use blacks as their muscle/foot soldiers. There are old photos during the civil rights movement where people were telling blacks not to fall for jewish lies because they believed the civil rights movement was a jewish plot to take over the country.

Racists have a lot of time on their hands

Oh, that's more like it. An army of black people controlled by Jews is the ridiculous I was looking for.

 

[LiK]

perfect first reply

 

[Kinyou]

It's three semi-pro twitter trolls. That's all it is.

Three.

http://www.vox.com/2015/10/19/9571309/star-wars-boycott

Interesting how little it takes

But I guess that's the problem when you can't choose if you want to support a hashtag or not. Talking about how awful the hashtag is got it trending, which then causes even more people to talk about it.

 

[Slayven]

It's three semi-pro twitter trolls. That's all it is.

Three.

http://www.vox.com/2015/10/19/9571309/star-wars-boycott

There was 4 but he got arrested for terrorism.

 

[LosDaddie]

It's three semi-pro twitter trolls. That's all it is.

Three.

http://www.vox.com/2015/10/19/9571309/star-wars-boycott

As if this should be a surprise to anyone. Outrage Culture, etc.

Congrats to them, though. I'm sure they're loving it.

 

[Brakke]

It's three semi-pro twitter trolls. That's all it is.

Three.

http://www.vox.com/2015/10/19/9571309/star-wars-boycott

Thanks for this.

Classic Vox article though. I wish they'd just give me the reporting instead of spending a bunch of paragraphs editorializing about "don't feed the trolls". I suppose the whole point of this story is that people fell for the troll in droves so maybe explaining how the troll worked is pertinent / instructive.

 

[Chariot]

I wonder if this "movement" will cited like all the supposed outrage over Elba being Heimdall is cited.

Why would people complain about that? I woukd raise a brow if he was playing an actual viking or something, but the Asgardians are just aliens who look like humans. No problem at all. Really, historical stuff is the only time where I can see restrictions on race.

It's really stupid, but I think it will go fringe once people get used to it and every fantasy/scifi medium has a healthy amount of diversity in reason for the setting.

 

[Brakke]

Why would people complain about that? I woukd raise a brow if he was playing an actual viking or something, but the Asgardians are just aliens who look like humans. No problem at all. Really, historical stuff is the only time where I can see restrictions on race.

It's really stupid, but I think it will go fringe once people get used to it and every fantasy/scifi medium has a healthy amount of diversity in reason for the setting.

Sigh. You don't need to explain these things. The Moral Of The Story there (and here) is that nobody (for non-zero but certainly negligible values of "nobody") actually cared about black Heimdahl. Almost all the energy there (and here) comes from the backlash. Just roll eyes and move on, don't engage such nonsense.

 

[Rin Tohsaka]

Wow at all these racist people.

All 3 of them.

 

[Einchy]

It's three semi-pro twitter trolls. That's all it is.

Three.

http://www.vox.com/2015/10/19/9571309/star-wars-boycott

Is this one of those things where a handful of racists used this hashtag but everyone making fun of them propelled the hashtag into being a trend?

So it was one of those things.

 

[Slayven]

I am saving all my outrage for Black Panther ruffling jimmies

 

[mStudios]

So, thousands of people got trolled?

 

[Averon]

Watching /tv/ and /pol/ tripping over themselves denying it was them is hilarious, which implies even they think this is stupid and it makes them look like idiots to the general public.

 

[SmackAttack]

I am saving all my outrage for Black Panther ruffling jimmies

Now that might be quite a ride.