ST Every thread about Finn getting shut down because of racist trolls

Scout Trooper · Dec 26, 2015

.....seriously you guys have problems here...

Jedi Merkurian · Dec 26, 2015

anakinfansince1983 said: ↑

Finn-2187 said: ↑

Here's how it goes, Someone posts a topic wanting to discuss Finn. Racists trolls come and overrun the thread spreading hate/denying Finn's role in film, etc. Legitimate posters are side tracked from their original purpose to talk about Finn's role and involvement in the film to defending Finn from racist trolls. Then mods come in and shut down thread, resulting in no to not many discussions about Finn being allowed the board. I understand this is ingrained culturally that a young black man has never had a main lead role and focus in a star wars movie let alone an interracial relationship with a white female co-lead, star wars historically has had a 100% white lead cast, and the star wars fans in general are a nearly 100% majority white cohort especially in America; so fans and mods probably naturally don't really have a lot of emotinal investment to really care for change in the lead casting roles from a racial diversity standpoint, or incentive to look at the discrepancy of the ratio of Finn threads to every other character and topics threads, but its interesting what is happening here and hopefully with John Boyega being a lead in the new films things can change in people's minds for the better as it results to these issues in society and with Star Wars.
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I sympathize completely, but I can assure you that the threads getting locked are not due to the moderators "not caring about change from a racial diversity standpoint." There is a dedicated John Boyega/Finn thread, with a specific warning against racist trolling in the opening post, so if you see racist trolling in that thread or any other thread, use the report function.

Signed, Mod willing to 'ship Finn-Rey OR Finn/Poe. Just give Finn some love.
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Nailed it.

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ST Every thread about Finn getting shut down because of racist trolls

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