According to the left, people on the right (i.e. racists) were outraged that the new Star Wars teaser features a black stormtrooper. There is no actual evidence that anyone, anywhere was outraged by a black guy in a storm-trooper costume, but that did not stop the left from exploding in self-righteous indignation against racists that only existed in their fevered imaginings,
if you search Twitter for “black stormtrooper,” you’ll find 1,291,074* tweets decrying the super duper racist people who are super duper butthurt about a black stormtrooper, and roughly zero** tweets from people are actually upset about the fact that a black dude was in a stormtrooper costume.***
The left is in constant need of things to be outraged about; to the point where they will be outraged over the hypothetical responses of imaginary people to a movie trailer.
Or maybe there’s some racial projecting going on, yes?
Isn’t it enough that George Lucas is no longer involved in Star Wars? Because then the trailer would look like this:
Then they better be careful to accuse us of ‘selective racism’ since the Stormtrooper template is not white to begin with.
These are probably the same people who accused George Lucas of racism because the original Star Wars had no blacks in it.
These people seem to forget the first statement in the movie, “A long time ago in a galaxy far far away…”
They confuse fantasy with reality, one of the signs of schizophrenia.
The only people seen in the trailer are a black guy, a strong woman, a latino pilot, and someone carrying a cross upside down
Wouldn’t the bigger controversy be over non-clones being admitted into the stormtrooper academy?
@ Sathar: Star Wars nerd here. Originally, before the Prequels, stormtroopers were just humans who volunteered for or were conscripted into the Imperial Army. The Clone Wars were originally envisioned as a conflict between the Republic and a horde of insane clones after an experiment to replace regular people with “disposable” replacements went horribly wrong. Or something like that.
The new canon is that shortly after the Clone Wars ended, all of the clone troopers were summarily dismissed from their duties and placed in menial jobs around the galaxy without recognition for their service to the Republic, since Palpatine wanted to weaken the link between the Republic and the Empire as much as possible. The clones are aware of what happened during Order 66: apparently, all of the clones were given Manchurian Candidate treatment in vitro.
They are now rapidly-aging veterans bitter about the part they played in killing the Jedi- whom many of the clones genuinely respected- which, if certain hints are correct, will come into play in new works, like the new TV show on Disney.