Last night the trailer was released for little story interesting (or infuriating). Or both. 1a2b5b
The people behind #BoycottStarWarsVII say the new movie is “promoting white genocide” and the so-called “movement” is asking others to boycott the movie. They also call Abrams a white-hating Jew.
“#BoycottStarWarsVII because it is anti-white propaganda promoting #whitegenocide,” says one Tweet:
#BoycottStarWarsVII because it is anti-white propaganda promoting #whitegenocide.
— End Cultural Marxism (@genophilia) October 19, 2015
The same also Tweeted: “A friend in LA said #StarWarsVII is basically ‘Deray in Space,’ ” — (a reference to civil rights activist DeRay Mckesson.) “Jewish activist JJ Abrams is an anti-white nut.” Another Twitter , calling itself “Captain Confederacy” ed in saying:
SJWs complain about White artists “misappropriating” culture created by blacks but then celebrate a non-White Star Wars. #BoycottStarWarsVII — Captain Confederacy (@2partyhoax) October 19, 2015
There was also a Twitter named after the hashtag set up to spread the hate. We’re not even going to bother linking it here but it’s not difficult to find. So what is this so-called “movement” all about?
Vox summed it up quite nicely in this post:
Specifically, the #BoycottStarWarsVII “movement” (and I’m skeptical of calling it that, for reasons I’ll get into shortly) takes umbrage with the fact that The Force Awakens’ cast features not one, but multiple people of color, a situation a small but vocal minority sees as evidence of a “white genocide” in the Star Wars universe, perpetuated by Abrams, a white-hating Hollywood Jew. Yes, it’s ridiculous and disgusting on many, many levels.
But Genevieve at Vox goes on to make another very good point: the hashtag is only trending because of people on Twitter commenting AGAINST it. There are very few posts at all in of the “movement” and those we can find do appear to be linked to one another. So while there may be a handful of racists out there using the hashtag to perpetuate hate, it really all began with a couple of trolls/racists creating the s/tweets and sharing them a lot.
It began on Sunday night with a handful of “haters” using the hashtag to spread around some ignorant and hateful comments.
This very ugly Storify gives you the timeline of how it all began. From there, it spread like wildfire as others who were following the Star Wars VII news asked “What is this hashtag all about anyway?” Proving yet again that not everything that goes viral is a good thing.
Once you get a hashtag on Twitter’s trending page, it really can take on a life of its own from there.
At the end of the day, it looks like this was United States at this time, it’s easy to see how this is a topic that could spiral out of control easily and quickly.