While #BoycottStarWarsVII haters concur and mark it as a low point in the series (something we can agree on!) they blame Jar Jar on a desire to placate the fans who demanded more diversity in their Star Wars: Diversity led to Jar Jar, and Jar Jar led to the death of all that was good in Star Wars. Jar Jar Binks, played by African-American actor Ahmed Best, was inarguably the tone-deaf embarrassment of the entire franchise-a racist caricature that rightfully earned its place as the worst Star Wars character of all time. If any single piece of evidence proves how unsound the logic of the #BoycottStarWarsVII mob is, it is the astoundingly twisted argument that makes the most clearly racist thing the Star Wars universe ever did into the fault of those most offended. JAR JAR BINKS WAS ACTUALLY THE OPPOSITE OF RACIST Internet racists already got their panties in a bunch when the first teaser trailer revealed Boyega sans helmet in his Stormtrooper uniform, birthing the #BlackStormTrooper hashtag last November. Here’s a rundown of the core tenets of the #BoycottStarWarsVII movement:īritish actor John Boyega plays redeemed Stormtrooper Finn, one of the new young leads of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Perhaps not shockingly, a deep dive into the #BoycottStarWarsVII hashtag (which is now, delightfully, dominated by true blue fans ridiculing the racists), yields a curious overlap of racist Star Wars invective and pro-Donald Trump tweets.
Jackson as Mace Windu and Billy Dee Williams as Lando Calrissian, or realize that the Imperial Stormtroopers were cloned from the genetic material of Mandalorian bounty hunter Jango Fett, played by part-Maori thesp Temuera Morrison?ĭo they know Darth Vader was voiced by James Earl Jones? Or that it was the good guys of the rebellion who were accepting of other races and species as they battled the overwhelmingly pasty-white evil villains of the Empire? Their tweets raise many questions, like: Do the #BoycottStarWarsVII realize their hatred violates Yoda’s teachings? Have they forgotten Samuel L.
Tonight’s trailer hits during Monday Night Football to push the new flick to the normcore dad masses and to non-diehards who maybe, probably, haven’t even heard there’s a new Star Wars movie coming out, let alone know or care that a black man and a woman lead the cast.Ĭlearly, these so-called fans aren’t too well-versed in their Jedi history. Laughably enough, the racist, misogynistic, and anti-Semitic crusaders of the #BoycottStarWarsVII movement completely miss the point of every lesson ever built into the Star Wars franchise.īut it’s telling that their outrage came to a head only when the Star Wars marketing campaign began making its push into the mainstream. Somewhere in a galaxy far, far away, shaking his damn head, Yoda is. Hate leads to suffering.” Ahead of tonight’s debut of the new Star Wars: Episode VII-The Force Awakenstrailer, it also led to a flurry of racist tweets fueled by the #BoycottStarWarsVII hashtag warning that the new Star Wars movie promotes “white genocide” and was made “to demoralize and destroy Whites.”
A wise Jedi once warned, “ Fear is the path to the dark side.