Translation: It can’t be a super-important scene if characters of color are central to the action and also I need to soothe my fear that my mass murdering patricidal fave is not in fact the male lead of the franchise.
This is also why the whole “we support Loan Tran” rings so freaking hollow from this crowd. Because guess who else isn’t in yesterday’s photos?
Yeah that would be Loan. Looks like Daisy isn’t there either. (It may or may not be her stunt double in the pics. It’s so damn grainy it’s impossible to tell, but it definitely isn’t Daisy.)
So while whatever is going on in the scene shot yesterday on that hillside, Rose and Rey might be off somewhere doing something together.
Which would not only mean that it just got increasingly likely that Rose will be more than a small, tangential role in IX. (I’m glad JJ included her and I see it as auspicious that he decided to do that at all, but I’ll remain worried about the treatment and plot significance of all the characters of color until I actually see the movie.) Furthermore it might mean we’ll get a Star Wars movie who not only passes the Bechdel test (which like half of them so far doesn’t do) but do so more than by the skin of its teeth (which is the rest of them).
But instead they go and make it about the white, genocidal Nazi I am unsurprised but this is why I can’t take the “we support Loan Tran” claim serious from most of that crowd. There might a few legit supporters among them, but the majority doesn’t give a flying fuck about Loan or any of the other actors of color, unless they can use them as support for their ship.
Classic racists.
I’ve gotta say, while reylows are being tiresome as usual I am loving how fragile and salty they are about Finn and Poe’s prominence in the released or leaked material for IX. Poe had better not touch the Falcon or Rey! This isn’t an important scene because Kyle Ron isn’t in them! The outfit means Poe is actually Gaston! Poe is the true villain and extremist!
I love watching them shoveling racist bullshit over their terror that Finn and Poe are the actual leads and not their white fave. The smell may be awful, but it’s entertaining to watch them scurry in fear.
Translation: It can’t be a super-important scene if characters of color are central to the action and also I need to soothe my fear that my mass murdering patricidal fave is not in fact the male lead of the franchise.
This is why I am so confused about the hatred towards Finn.
Finn has done anything to warrant this much hate. It doesn’t make sense. What has he done? The only thing that you can even consider bad is him trying to leave the others. That is it and he goes back on that as soon as Rey as in trouble. He’s kind, brave, selfless and he cares about people. It’s obvious that he cares about Poe and Rey. Hell, even Chewy likes him. But people want to smear him for no good reason.
Again, what has Finn done? Literally, nothing. It’s like hating a kitten.
List of Finn’s unforgivable crimes:
Existing as a Black man
Having a deep and heartfelt bond with Rey, something reylows believe Kylo is entitled to no matter how badly he mistreats her
Being exactly what people want their white “hero” to be–courageous, honorable, fundamentally good, intellegent, complex, intriguing–and being better than their pale imitation Benny Solo in every conceivable way
I’m honored that reylows see me as the ringleader in this despite @captainamericagf delving deeper into the fic and exposing more of not only the author’s but her readers’ disgusting racism. That’s me, chief anti! (I hope I didn’t end up directing any anon clowns at you, Amanda. Wanted to give credit where it’s due.)
Also the lack of self-awareness here… like… holy shit. “It shouldn’t cause me this much heartache.” ME. Because she’s the victim here. “Besides the fact that it’s just cruel, it’s completely unnecessary.” Exactly. No one forced you to write something so hurtful and insidious. “Being popular on the internet is more important than being a nice person, right?” Says the person who got hundreds of kudos and comments writing Birth of a Nation: The Fanfic 😂
I am unsurprised but this is why I can’t take the “we support Loan Tran” claim serious from most of that crowd. There might a few legit supporters among them, but the majority doesn’t give a flying fuck about Loan or any of the other actors of color, unless they can use them as support for their ship.
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