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One Year Later, The #SWRepMatters Campaign Is Still an Uplifting Part of Star Wars Fandom
Gizmodo ^ | October 26, 2018 | Klaudia AmenĂ¡bar

Posted on 10/28/2018 6:05:10 AM PDT by C19fan

As you may have heard, things haven’t been too great in Star Wars fandom lately. While all fandoms (or even groups of people in general) attract bigotry and unsavory people, Star Wars has taken the cake, especially after the release of The Last Jedi. Whether it’s a response to increased diversity or just the sci-fi fandom iteration of our society’s growing pains into the digital age, toxicity in Star Wars fandom has taken an interesting center stage in conversations about media and even politics. But while some try to parse out why Russian bots were involved in the vocal backlash to The Last Jedi, or why Lucasfilm hasn’t done anything about it, a group of fans on Twitter took another approach .A year ago today, I, along with several other Star Wars fans, podcasters, and writers, started a hashtag called #SWRepMatters.

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TOPICS: Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: race; star; wars
Just throw in useless characters because they happen to check certain demographic criteria. One needs to destroy a villagefranchise to save it.
1 posted on 10/28/2018 6:05:10 AM PDT by C19fan
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If PC Star Wars is so popular then why did Soylo bomb and Darth Kennedy has cancelled all upcoming stand alone movies?


2 posted on 10/28/2018 6:06:26 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

More GetWoke/GoBroke stuff. Fine if they make it, but they need to figure out a happy medium to meet in the middle.


3 posted on 10/28/2018 6:12:49 AM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Elections have consequences. get over it, we won! ~ Barack Obama)
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To: C19fan
Written by some SJW named Klaudia Amenábar.

From what I can gather, she sees herself as some sort of feminist who is into cosplay, Sci-fi, and Social Justice.

The truth is that Kathleen Kennedy has absolutely ruined the Star Wars franchise.



4 posted on 10/28/2018 6:23:53 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: C19fan

“A lot of us are queer, disabled, and/or people of color”

You dare try to draw an equivalence between nasty perversions and disabilities? Between loathsome mental disorders and race?


5 posted on 10/28/2018 6:25:56 AM PDT by dsc (Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
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To: C19fan

Solo was a really good movie. It was boycotted by fans who didn’t like The Last Jedi. Too bad, it was fun. SW fans shooting themselves in the foot.


6 posted on 10/28/2018 6:25:56 AM PDT by freepertoo (Nora Mayers)
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To: SkyPilot

“Written by some SJW named Klaudia Amenábar.”

Written by some shit goblin named Klaudia Amenabar.


7 posted on 10/28/2018 6:27:56 AM PDT by dsc (Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
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To: freepertoo

Yes, but we’ve been burned before.
3rd movie was too sugar coated for me.
4th was better but not nearly as good as the first two.
5th was absolutely boring, so much so I wouldn’t see the 6th.
I went with a friend to the 7th one (Is that one The Last Jedi?) Where Han Solo dies? That was tasteless.


8 posted on 10/28/2018 6:44:40 AM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: C19fan

If people gag on having liberal politics crammed down their throats, demonize them for having throats too small.


9 posted on 10/28/2018 6:45:08 AM PDT by BeauBo
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“The Last Jedi” and “Solo” both sucked. That’s why they tanked at the box office. What a surprise that the SJW hacks behind them are now crying “racism!”

It is possible to interject “political correctness” and “diversity” into a movie or TV series and still have it be entertaining and successful, but this requires skill and artistry. Gene Roddenberry could do it, Kathleen Kennedy sure as hell can’t.


10 posted on 10/28/2018 6:45:26 AM PDT by Junk Silver ("It's a little hard to herd people onto trains when they're shooting at you." SirLurkedalot)
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So I have to ask, Who cares?

Just grow up, get a job and act like a real thinking person. Doing this will really surprise you. Actual thinking and doing ANYTHING yourself may makr you into a real person rather than just a meme.


11 posted on 10/28/2018 6:51:32 AM PDT by Agatsu77
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$4B Disney paid for the Star Wars franchise. They need to recover $4B just to break even with the cost of acquiring the movie rights. Disney lost $50M on “Solo”.

Now Disney is up to its neck in SJW vita signaling working about racial quotas, LGBLSMFT quotas, disabled quotas, and every other social marxism concern. Meanwhile, it looks like they forgot something sort of important to a good successful movie. A good story.


12 posted on 10/28/2018 6:54:27 AM PDT by Flick Lives
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Destroy it to Save It.
..Kaizen.


13 posted on 10/28/2018 7:02:30 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!)
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To: Flick Lives

Disney is up to its neck in SJW vita signaling working about racial quotas, LGBLSMFT quotas, disabled quotas, and every other social marxism concern. Meanwhile, it looks like they forgot something sort of important to a good successful movie. A good story.


It will be interesting to see if what is more important at the point: SJW virtue signaling or the Bottom line. Frankly, I’m not so sure anymore.


14 posted on 10/28/2018 7:17:02 AM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: C19fan

Did you see it?


15 posted on 10/28/2018 8:18:27 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
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