Three people, three trolls start a whole backlash. I'd be laughing if it wasn't so sad. People are so willing to believe that most people are this openly racist that they buy this crap hook line and sinker. Are there people in the world who are pissed that there is a black lead in the new Star Wars? Well, we have 6 billion people, so I suppose there are. Are they around in numbers that matter, and do they have any sort of cultural cache to matter? Nope. Not at all.
The thing is, people don't apply critical thinking when they hear an absurd headline. The very idea that there was a decently sized group of fans who NOW of all times decided to boycott Star Wars because of a black guy is so patently absurd on its face that I knew it had to be a joke. And lo and behold it was.
The worst part of this is, this is going to become an urban legend of the internet, much like the outrage over Heimdall, essentially untrue, but accepted as fact anyway.
