As the internet impatiently awaited the release of the first trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, not everyone was looking forward it. A new (stupid) social media movement asked fans to #BoycottStarWarsVII. The hashtag started appearing on Twitter Sunday night objected to the fact that The Force Awakens features lead characters who AREN’T white males. Its users accused the movie of pushing some sinister agenda. One tweet from an account calling itself “End Cultural Marxism read;
“#BoycottStarWarsVII because it is anti-white propaganda promoting #whitegenocide.”
“Jewish activist JJ Abrams is an anti-white nut.”
Another Twitter account, calling itself “Captain Confederacy,” similarly griped;
“SJWs [Social Justice Warriors] complain about White artists ‘misappropriating’ culture created by blacks but then celebrate a non-White Star Wars.”
Yet another complaint read that the movie should be boycotted
“because it’s nothing more than a social justice propaganda piece that alienates it’s core audience of young white males.”
More Twitter accounts have been created after the hashtag was set up to retweet comments posted using it. All this Tweeting ignors the fact that, while not a bastion of cultural diversity, even the earliest Star Wars movies featured leads of color –James Earl Jones voiced Darth Vader through the entire original trilogy, and Billy Dee Williams‘s Lando Calrissian joined the series early on in, The Empire Strikes Back.
On social media, other Star Wars fans have responded in defense of the upcoming movie:
And cooler heads have prevailed thanks to Selma director Ava DuVernay, who has already created a response hashtag, #CelebrateStarWarsVII
…and Charles Pulliam hit the nail on the proverbial head.
Who cares if racists don’t want to see The Force Awakens? h/t @AVAETC #CelebrateStarWarsVII https://t.co/JSYVerZvty pic.twitter.com/4GIYUBY93H
— Charles Pulliam (@CharlesPulliam) October 19, 2015
(via THR)
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