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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: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 11 2016, @11:48PM
> Hollyweird has been painting conservatives and republicans as stupid and racist for many years now.
Wah, wah, wah.
Name one example.
The fact is that hollywood constantly parodies liberals. That's because writers tend to write what they know and being full of liberals hollywood knows all about them. They stay away from conservatives precisely because they know how thin-skinned they are and so not having much experience with them, they try to avoid doing anything controversial for fear of it being taken too hard.
Look at practically every sitcom - they are all about liberal stereotypes. There are only a handful that are about conservatives - Last Man Standing and that new kevin james one are the only ones on broadcast tv that comes to mind. But even those shows spend a disproportionate amount of time making fun of the token liberals on the shows.
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 12 2016, @12:05AM
Pick any Steven King book. Every single 'bad guy' in his books are wringing their hands 'muwhahaha' republicans. ALL. The good guys are just down trodden democrats. He puts that junk in all of his books. Even when it adds nothing to the narrative.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 12 2016, @01:48AM
> Every single 'bad guy' in his books are wringing their hands 'muwhahaha' republicans.
Flagg is a republican?
The creature from IT is a republican?
Christine is a republican?
Cujo is a republican?
Annie Wilkes is a republican?
Kurt Barlow is a republican?
More likely you have no idea what a republican is.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 12 2016, @02:55AM
At least half of those eat fucking children, so yeah, that's a pretty good representation of Republicans. :D
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 12 2016, @04:52AM
If the children didn't want eaten, they should have practiced abstinence.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 12 2016, @03:12AM
Pennywise from IT is almost certainly a republican, yes.
(Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Monday December 12 2016, @01:47AM
Name one example? Seriously? Start with the classic Archibald Bunker and go forward from there.
But of course I don't agree with GP here either: even All in the Family lampooned the "Meathead's" liberal political views on a frequent basis too. It's not a vast conspiracy to make fun of conservatives -- but they do get made fun of (and their views often distorted or stereotyped in the process) along with liberals and everybody else.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 12 2016, @02:01AM
> Start with the classic Archibald Bunker and go forward from there.
Come on, a show from 40 years ago?
Even so, Archie Bunker was portrayed as a complex person. He was a foil for a lot of sociopolitical commentary, but his character was not completely unsympathetic.
> It's not a vast conspiracy to make fun of conservatives -- but they do get made fun of (and their views often distorted or stereotyped in the process) along with liberals and everybody else.
That's key, everybody gets caricatured. But liberal characters outnumber 'conservative' characters like 10:1. I think the worst thing you can say is that because there just aren't many conservative characters on screen they rarely break out from the stereotypes. Breaking Bad did a good job with his brother-in-law and Mike though. But for the most part its not unlike how other minorities get stereotypical roles. Looks like runaway has more in common with muslims than he realized.