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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday December 11 2016, @09:13PM   Printer-friendly
from the may-the-trump-be-with-you dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 11 2016, @10:40PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 11 2016, @10:40PM (#440096)

    White people: The most oppressed group in all of history. Poor things.

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Monday December 12 2016, @01:06AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday December 12 2016, @01:06AM (#440149) Journal

    You win our dull tool award for the day. "Conservative" and "republican" are not synonymous with "white". With your award, we will give you a whetstone, with which you can try to sharpen yourself up.

    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 12 2016, @02:20AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 12 2016, @02:20AM (#440172)

      Looks like he was sharp enough to cut you so bad you couldn't help but react...

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Thexalon on Monday December 12 2016, @03:37AM

      by Thexalon (636) on Monday December 12 2016, @03:37AM (#440202)

      "Conservative" and "republican" are not synonymous with "white".

      The Republicans, like the Democrats, have some non-white people. And in both parties, much of that racial diversity is more for show than anything else.

      But the Republicans just nominated somebody with a history of racist actions in his businesses (e.g. denying rental applications to black people, for being black), who after his election hired an open white supremacist to be his chief advisor. So to say that the Republicans aren't a party that supports white people over non-white people is also not true.

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