Apparently, there just aren't enough white people in movies nowadays. Or at least that's what people are saying after watching the new trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Many people went to social media to share their feelings towards the upcoming movie using the hashtag #BoycottStarWarsVII. Twitter user @genophilia started the movement against the sci-fi film with this tweet:
#BoycottStarWarsVII because it is anti-white propaganda promoting #whitegenocide.
— End Cultural Marxism (@genophilia) October 19, 2015
The hashtag quickly became a top trending topic. Several people stood with @genophilia's statement, arguing that the new Star Wars movie has some kind of hateful message toward white people (and not all white people—only men) because the lead roles are played by an African American man and a Caucasian woman. Thankfully, the large majority of the tweets using this hashtag were from decent human beings, discrediting these bigoted claims. I'm fairly positive that the person behind @genophilia's tweet is just an internet troll trying to get a reaction out of people, but by God did it work. The fact that what he said actually got people to back him up and agree that a movie is causing a "white genocide" is just baffling to me. I know that everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but I don't know why this should cause any kind of uproar from the white community. I think that the only reason all of these people are complaining about a black man in Star Wars is because he is the main character. No one cared that Mace Windu from the prequels was black, but he was more of a minor character. But even still, why should anyone care about anyone's race in a Star Wars movie? It doesn't even take place on Earth. The humans in that far, far away galaxy do not have prejudices against skin color—they have countless other sentient species to worry about. I mean, it's not like white actors still take up a great majority of the film's cast; John Boyega's character, Flynn, is the only black person on the movie poster.
Newsflash, racists: black people exist. Just because you are used to seeing white men be the heroes in movies does not mean they are the only ones capable of saving the day. The role of Flynn did not have to be cast as a black person, but he doesn't have to be white either. The character's race was not written into the script. And why should it? One's race is completely arbitrary in a story like this.
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