Posted on 12/09/2016 8:18:59 PM PST by KyCats
"But the actions of the Rogue One writers is a lot more than that. Their tweets, particularly the safety pin emblem, is an obvious attempt to make the film a political statement against Trump and his supporters. The evil Empire is a white supremacist, Trump-esque organization, while the Rebellion are all those scrappy college kids demanding a safe space from the president-elect."
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/09/why-you-should-dumpstarwars/#ixzz4SPBsE5Tm
And the opposite would be good too. An app that points you to businesses like Hobby Lobby and Chick-fil-A.
The First Order/Empire might be a “White Supremist” organization but neither the Trump campaign or his upcoming administration are. Their analogy is ridiculous and meaningless.
I dumped Star Wars after the first one way back in the 70s. I don’t feel like I’ve missed a thing.
Personally, I thought “The Force Awakens” was a hot mess. So, not going to waste my $$ on “Rogue One”.
There’s an app called ‘second vote’ which scores businesses on how liberal they are. It’s meant to help conservative consumers not spend their money at liberal bastions like Starbucks and steer them to places like Chick-fil-A.
It rates businesses on a scale of 1-5 with 1 being the most liberal and 5 being the most conservative. 3.3 is considered neutral.
Yeah. Since calling every conservative “racist” for the last 30 years is starting to lose its bang, they’ve had to move on to calling us all “White Supremacists”.
The left likes to play these little word games. Like changing their moniker from “liberal” to “progressive”. It’s all a charade. They’re Leftists. And we’re Right.
Thanks.
Whites comprise only 10% of the world population and they will not tolerate White Haters.
You losers, go find another victim group.
Another one I’ve never seen.
YW
There was supposed to be all sorts of Bush-bashing in Revenge of the Sith, too. You had to be paying attention when you came across it, though.
It’s what Hollywood does. Anything to cajole you to buy a ticket or be outraged and spread word of the film that way.
Ebert savaged Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ for it’s “gruesome violence.” Never mind that that’s what happened and that other films he enjoyed were worse. He hated Kick Ass for having a little girl beat up bad guys in what was arguably a conservative-leaning movie. When “Hannah”(?) came out less than a year later with another little girl that beats up bad guys in a left-leaning movie, he weakly walked back his earlier reservations.
They’re hypocrites. As I said, they’ll say anything to pump you up or harsh your buzz in the name of selling tickets or publicity-blitzing for a film.
So, umm, I'm guessing you didn't see the last movie where a black stormtrooper from the First Order was one of the central characters. The Empire (and presumably the First Order) hold much against non-humans, regularly enslaving others, at least from the 1977 movie forward (though I think it was only blatantly spelled out in the books.)
“Sometimes a Star Wars movie is just a Star Wars movie”
-Sigmund Freud.
“The evil Empire is a white supremacist, Trump-esque organization, while the Rebellion are all those scrappy college kids demanding a safe space from the president-elect.”
For decades I’ve been kind of cheering for the Empire. I’m just saying. . .
Trump is Thrawn. I’m just saying...
Only real Star Wars fans will get the reference.
You're White.
Secret Dog Whistle Thingy if I ever saw one.
And sometimes, the guy running the franchise says "We aren't going to have any new white guys as stars in these films."
-- J. J. Abrams.
How can they be White Supremacists when they had Fynn working as a Storm Trooper? He wasn’t even trained enough not to crack just because he was burning a SJW village.
Grand admiral Thrawn if I remember the books right was a non human who became head of the imperial forces.
The Force Awakens was just a copy nearly scene for scene of A New Hope. Literally.
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