The racists drop another bomb on the Internet

I noticed on Facebook that #BoycottStarWarsVII was trending this morning.  By the time something like that gets to Facebook, we've gone well passed critical mass for the initial trend and have moved into the reactionary trends.  I'm naturally skeptical of anything that gets massive support from the mainstream and so I didn't trust that #BoycottStarWarsVII was necessarily as bad of thing as everyone was alleging.

I hopped over to the nearest politically-correct-run-by-millennials site I could find to catch up on what happened.  This time, it was the New York Post.  Before continuing, what do you call people with pride in the White race?  Racists, right liberals?  How about we go with White Pride for now.

Anyway, the White Pride people seemed to have beef that the new Star Wars isn't staring a white male and thus wanted to boycott the movie all together.  I was going to boycott the movie because it looked fucking stupid unless you're under the age of 15 but I can jump on board with racists on occasion.  This time, however, the reasoning seemed a bit persnickety.  Quite a bit, actually.  After all, we have plenty of movies with black actors and there's nothing inherently "white" about a space-adventure film to the point where we need white actors.  There's absolutely no reason why a Star Wars film staring a black guy (or gal) wouldn't be every bit as good as previous films.

However, the New York Post author, Harry Tucker, instead of laughingly dismissing the White Pride people for being nit-picky, opened his article by calling them racists.  Something about modern society I'll never understand or get a satisfactory explanation on is why a black person complaining about no black actors in a movie is acceptable but a white person saying the same thing is racist.  Both groups may be right or wrong, but only one of them is racist.  Why, exactly?  The world may never know.

I couldn't find much about Harry Tucker (in 90 seconds on Google) other than these three articles:

1. Meet the 7 scariest animals on Earth
2. Snowden: Mass surveillance won’t stop terrorism (no opinion, just regurgitation)
3. Six life lessons learned from video games

So I'm going to assume that he's a millennial, especially since after the name-calling, Tucker gets snarky (and millennials love snark like they love superhero shit).  Citing previous Star Wars movies, he names two minor characters and a guy whose face was hidden the entire movie, all of whom are black, and then essentially says, "Ta-da!"  Actually, I take that back.  Tucker doesn't point this out, he copy/pastes tweets from other people who pointed this out and made jokes that are funnier than anything he writes.  But he definitely implies a "ta-da."

At this point, though, I'm still on board with Tucker..  His supporting evidence made me think, "Eh, doesn't really prove your point," but I kind of agreed with him from the jump.  Then he relates this little gem:

Last February, after the cast was first revealed, director JJ Abrams told the “By The Way, In Conversation with Jeff Garlin” podcast why he wanted to cast more actors of color in the movie.

"We wrote these characters but when we went to cast it, one of the things I had felt, having been to the Emmys a couple times — you look around that room and you see the whitest f–king room in the history of time. It’s just unbelievably white,” he said.

“And I just thought, we’re casting this show and we have an opportunity to do anything we want, why not cast the show with actors of color?”

“Like not for sure, and if we can’t find the actors who are great, we shouldn’t, but why don’t we make that effort,” Abrams added.

If Tucker is aware that this anecdote contradicts the premise of his article he doesn't show it.  He actually ends his write-up with the Abrams quote.  Uh, pardon my French, but what the fuck?  That quote is literally what spawned the #BoycottStarWarsVII movement.  It is practically all of their evidence.  But Tucker is so plugged into the modern narratives and so incompetent of a writer, that he A) never took the time to understand the White Pride people's argument, just took as given it was racist and wrong; and B) accepts without question that affirmative-action hires are always justified.

I gotta tell you, after reading that quote from Abrams I thought, "Wait.  So don't the White Pride people have a point?  Am I missing something?"  Abrams literally said they tried to avoid hiring white people.  But all the complainers are racist?  This little article from an idiot at a PC-rag in New York is possibly the perfect microcosm for the entire debate.

So yeah, let's #BoycottStarWarsVII for the following reasons:

1. Star Wars is for children.
2. JJ Abrams brags about passing on qualified actors just because of their skin color.
3. For spite.  Spite towards all the lemmings who shouted down the #BoycottStarWarsVII movement without a second thought.  Always OK to do things for spite.

Again for emphasis: Star Wars is not Sci-Fi and never was.  It's fantasy set in space.  And fantasy is -- say it with me one more time so I can hear you -- for children.