Racists Want To Boycott The New 'Star Wars' Movie And So Do Some Trump Fans

Neo-Nazi groups have got their lightsabers in a twist over the upcoming release of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and now some Trump fans are also calling for a boycott of the movie.
The film isn’t on general release until next week, but rumours have surfaced online that the re-shot ending is an attack on US President-elect Donald Trump. The claims that the climax of the story has been altered to reference the recent elections in America have now been firmly debunked, but that hasn’t stopped some from get angry.

Initially the move against the galaxy far far away began on Reddit and other similar online outlets, with forum users on ‘r/altright’ already upset that The Force Awakens featured a black male lead (John Boyega) and a powerful female character (Daisy Ridley).

Daisy Ridley and John Boyega in ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’

According to IB Times, when the trailer for Rogue One was released, one online blog claimed that it was “nothing but a Jew masturbation fantasy of anti-white hate [in which] nearly all of the major characters are non-whites and the main character is an empowered white female.”

The new outcry has resulted in a hashtag trending on Twitter, but predictably #dumpstarwars might not be going the way those calling for a boycott had initially hoped it would.

https://twitter.com/tauriqmoosa/status/807132403642855424

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story features an international cast including Felicity Jones, Riz Ahmed, Mads Mikkelsen, Donnie Yen and Forest Whitaker.

It seems like any planned boycott messages have been well and truly ‘trumped’ by those desperate to see the film.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is on general release from December 16

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