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The BBC reports that supporters of US President-elect Donald Trump are urging a boycott of the Star Wars film, Rogue One, next week, over claims that scenes had been reshot after the election to make the film more of a thinly-veiled jab linking the president-elect to racism.
Supporters of Donald Trump are urging a boycott of the Star Wars film, Rogue One, due for US release next week.
The campaign began with a series of tweets from activist Jack Posobiec, who claimed the writers changed the film to add scenes linking Mr Trump to racism.
Screenwriter Chris Weitz said that this was "completely fake", though he and another writer have tweeted their opposition to the US president-elect.
#DumpStarWars has been retweeted 120,000 times in the past 24 hours.
In a Periscope video, Jack Posobiec, who is an activist with Citizens for Trump, claimed the writers had said the Empire in the film "is a white supremacist organization like the Trump administration and the diverse rebels are going to defeat them".
"They're trying to make the point of using this movie to push the false narrative... that Trump is a racist." he said.
(Score: 5, Touché) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Sunday December 11 2016, @09:51PM
If Trump supporters see themselves - or their champion - defamed as racists in the movie, it's because they themselves know they are racist, or at least that there's something racist about the whole Trump crowd they belong to. If they genuinely didn't, they wouldn't even notice any similarity in the first place, and they wouldn't raise a stink as a result.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 11 2016, @09:55PM
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 11 2016, @10:28PM
No, protesting one's innocence is perfectly fine.
However, if you see racist behavior in a movie, and your first thought is "that's me"... that's quite telling, eh?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 11 2016, @10:36PM
I'm only racist against SJW'ers. SJW... The biggest group of losers I've ever seen.
(Score: 5, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 12 2016, @01:42AM
> SJW... The biggest group of losers I've ever seen.
That's factually incorrect.
The biggest group of losers you've ever seen are the people who whine about SJW.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 12 2016, @03:45PM
SJWs are the same as trump supporters anyhow you can both go fuck each other since you're ruining the country for you asinine demands to have you way.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 12 2016, @07:57PM
so this!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 11 2016, @11:41PM
if you see racist behavior in a movie, and your first thought is "that's me"... that's quite telling, eh?
“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 12 2016, @05:23PM
No, protesting one's innocence is perfectly fine.
However, if you see racist behavior in a movie, and your first thought is "that's me"... that's quite telling, eh?
There is a reason slander and libel laws exist. Imagine somebody made a movie about "Bnonymous Doward" who had your job, married somebody similar to your spouse, went to a school similar to yours, was about your age, lived in a similar neighborhood, also did your hobby, and was otherwise like you. However, this "Bnonymous Doward" was also a flagrant racist. And remember that business deal you turned down a while ago due to the potential partner having bad financial statements, Bnonymous turned down a similar deal due to the counterparty having "dirty blood."
I don't know enough about the situation to say whether these protests are fair, unfair, or these protests are some publicity stunt by Disney (unlikely for Disney to do so, but other publishers have done similar things in the past). However, it is very easy for a non-racist to see themselves within a racist character depending on the other attributes of the character, and it's very reasonable to take offense at the accusation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 12 2016, @10:04PM
No.... But saying the stormtrooper boot fits as if it was custom made just for you....... yeah they might can wear the stormtrooper label then.
(Score: 2) by TheGratefulNet on Sunday December 11 2016, @09:58PM
"star wars: not racist, but #1 with racists!"
/stolen
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Thexalon on Sunday December 11 2016, @10:58PM
Trump isn't racist the same way anybody who begins a sentence with "I'm not racist, but ..." isn't racist.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Monday December 12 2016, @12:24AM
Now, let's put it to song [youtube.com]!
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 11 2016, @11:00PM
And the latest ghostbusters failed because people are misogynists. Not because it was a terrible movie.
I will do what I usually do with movies. Pick it up in a bargain bin. Also I would vote for Trump *again*.
Or maybe you could give me some more armchair pop psychology.
Maybe if you looked at it from their POV. All of the actors and directors and producers basically spent the past 6 months flipping them off. Maybe they have a bone to pick?
(Score: 4, Funny) by mhajicek on Sunday December 11 2016, @11:44PM
I'll vote for Trump when he hits the bargain bin.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 12 2016, @12:01AM
Trump won because Cliton was from the very bottom of the bargain bin, the one leftover that nobody wanted. Bernie would've won, but too many woman wanted a female president. I've heard many woman say they've waited a long time for a female to run, and look what happened. Next time choose carefully. BTW, I think Obama won for the same reason, just to get a non-white in office.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 12 2016, @08:48AM
Will the "time for a woman" crowd get behind a president Palin, or do women only count when they are democrats like they are supposed to be? Many republicans would be delighted to put Palin in the whitehouse.
There is also a female McCain now in office, daughter of the senator. She is a realistic hope, starting a dozen years from now.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 12 2016, @09:06AM
You already know any conservative women are traitors to the cause, buoyed only by the sacrifices of feminist in the tradition of Bell Hooks; they are jackals feasting on the bones of those they betrayed.
Much like conservative blacks are considered Uncle Toms by daring to prosper under the auspices of systemic oppression, only to become oppressors themselves.
Don't even get me started on gay republicans.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Monday December 12 2016, @11:04AM
Well obviously, if you had Palin vs a male democrat, and someone whose ONLY criterium for voting was the candidate's personal plumbing, then yes, obviously that person would vote for Palin.
If, however, a bunch of left-leaning people choose the democrat over Palin because they think Palin is a poisonous thick-as-shit self-publicising right-wing redneck dipshit and don't want to vote for her, then I think that shows they are choosing competence over gender. Which is a good thing, right? Not sure why you are complaining about that. Is it because all the so-called SJWs aren't living up to the simplistic and villainous preconceptions you like to brand them with?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Monday December 12 2016, @01:29PM
Nikki Haley would be the best such candidate for the Republican branch of the uniparty to put toward President.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by fritsd on Monday December 12 2016, @05:16PM
Only 0.5% or so of US women voters voted for the Green Party's candidate?
Your country is SO fucked.. which would be ok, as a matter of sovereignty(sp), but for the fact that it's the richest and most powerful country in the whole world.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 13 2016, @04:49AM
Obama's win may have paved the way for the "anti-precedent" president movement. He was more electable than someone like Sharpton, Jackson, or even Carson. As president, he was underwhelming, however. Many may feel that Clinton would have been a similar underwhelming "precedent" president. Of course it didn't help Hillary's cause that she has been riding Bill's coattails for decades. That may have also put off a number of women voters who feel that their groundbreaker should be deserving and electable on their own merits.
Would love to see someone like Condi Rice on the ticket in 2020 or 2024. Woman minority, and much more electable than Clinton ever was.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by LoRdTAW on Monday December 12 2016, @02:49PM
Whats funny about the new ghost busters was that it was full of sexism that no one seemed to mind. I saw it, because this girl I was seeing wanted to, it mostly sucked but had a few funny moments. The girls hire a secretary, a hunky guy dumber than a bag of hammers who they all lust over. Reverse the rolls, have a few men drool over an incredibly dumb blond with big tits and the same people who praised the film would have erupted in a frenzy. The far-left/right twats are the big problem in this country. Each side blind to its own stupidity which is why we had the two worst candidates of all time. Also, the film is not even worth the bargain bin price IMHO.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Monday December 12 2016, @10:05PM
The girls hire a secretary, a hunky guy dumber than a bag of hammers who they all lust over.
Man, that guy was *SO DUMB*.
I really have nothing else to add to your point, sorry.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 12 2016, @12:59AM
You could make an obvious allusion to any given group in such a way that anyone familiar with the group would understand they are being depicted, whilst portraying behavior that is not necessarily characteristic to that group. This is one of the oldest tricks in the book.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 12 2016, @03:17AM
Is this in the same way Jar Jar Binks was seen as a Step 'n' Fetch?
Crap argument is crap argument, akin to have you stopped beating your wife yet.