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With the long-anticipated Star Wars: The Force Awakens opening
tomorrow, news outlets and social media have been abuzz with the
expectations of a new generation of fans. But with The Force
Awakens as the first of the films to be released in the age of
social justice, the question must be asked: At a time when the
slightest violation of PC orthodoxy can set off a deluge of
listicles, cable-news segments, and general media outrage, can
Star Wars survive such an onslaught launched from the Social
Justice Media’s veritable Sarlacc Pit — more commonly referred
to as Twitter?

The filmmakers and cast would serve both our own galaxy and the
galaxy far, far away well by telling the Vox-splaining concern
trolls, who will doubtless be poring over every story arc and
line of dialogue in search of microaggressions, that they’ll get
no such social-justice pleasure from them, but alas, that is
probably too much to ask. The original Star Wars was celebrated
as a pop-culture revolution that brought the country and the
world together in a way a film and brand hadn’t done previously.
But that was before the dark times. Before the Social Justice
Empire. Never will Star Wars have encountered a more wretched
hive of scum and villainy. One can already see the trending “hot
takes” on the film flying out faster than an X-wing through the
Death Star trench.

All this was brewing well before the film’s release week.
Immediately following the release of the first teaser trailer,
journalists conjured up a phantom menace of supposed mass
outrage over the idea of a black stormtrooper (played by British
actor John Boyega), when very little evidence beyond sporadic,
anonymous YouTube comments was presented as proof that such
widespread sentiment actually existed. Adding fuel to that fire,
a small band of rebel trolls on Twitter began using the hashtag #BoycottStarWarsVII, in an attempt to bait progressive media’s
all-too-giddy instincts to make political points about the
casting decisions of director J. J. Abrams. Abrams admitted one
of his goals was to bring more diversity to a universe
criticized in the past for a lack thereof.

Only Earth was stupid enough to have niggers. Only white
apologist liberal America and that faggot company Disney would
fuck up a perfectly good movie by putting niggers and faggots in
it.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/428631/star-wars-force- awakens-social-justice-warriors-criticism
 

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