[quote=“Mr_Sandman, post:134, topic:290907”]
Some people are convinced that it’s fake and the whole “Star Wars promotes white genocide, we are super racist” thing is a marketing ploy.
I don’t know, but I honestly wouldn’t be surprised. Mad Max got so much free publicity and got everyone talking about something that most likely would have been ignored all because some super misongynst guy wrote an angry blog post that went viral.
Not only is it free publicity, it creates a narrative where Star Wars is the good guy, no one wants articles appearing decrying a movie as racist/sexist/homophobic/whatever, but if this happens then no-one writes that stuff, instead they praise it (and if people do write negative things about it in relation to the issues they get ignored or even attacked, See: anyone who wrote that Mad Max wasn’t feminist).[/quote]
Won’t lie. The thought hit me. Especially after mad max, which is less feminist and more anti-objectification. The negative buzz and feedback carried it long and far. It’s not a stretch to do the same thing with star wars. Oh humans. Damn us and our human stuff.
Now that being said… I think it’s pretty helpful to the star wars franchise to have the two listed as leads. Historically, SW has not been… great with things like females or racial stereotypes.