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That’s sad, infuriating and troubling to hear, ady. Have people really lost the ability to isolate things they may like - or not - without the need to inform the world of their points of view in such a hateful and threatening manner? It seems increasingly so. As you say, it’s seemingly becoming the norm - worryingly so.

Hope your Mrs is okay after that, and also those 3 twats think again as to just why they were laughed at.

Dre is spot on - respect; it seems to be missing for some of these pricks.
 

I saw Chris’ response to a post re the ‘far left political propaganda film’ on your facebook page - I think he nailed it.

 

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Don’t those idiots know some female pilots were actually filmed for ROTJ?

Talking shit online is one thing, harassing someone for wearing a TLJ shirt in person? These morons don’t even deserve to be called Star Wars fans.

Can’t people who make threatening remarks on facebook be reported?

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Adywan , I have experienced this kind of behavior as well , directed at myself both online and offline .It’s pathetic and online it seems to be a lot of people who come out of nowhere to be dicks . If those kids you encountered came at me like that , I would have told them to go eat a Tide pod !

https://screamsinthevoid.deviantart.com/

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Tide pods are about the only consumer product without a Star Wars tie-in it seems. 😛

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I wonder if it’s going to come down to the man himself, George Lucas, to tell these fans to knock it off or get lost. Gene Roddenberry once had to tell some misguided Trekkers back in the 1970’s to lay off protesting Star Wars or so the story goes.

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that would be ideal. Sadly , I think he might be met with the same behavior . And at the 10th anniversary Star Wars convention , Gene Roddenberry attended and shook George’s hand and George told him of how he used to stop and watch Star Trek re runs everyday while writing the scripts for Star Wars .It was documented in Starlog magazine

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I wish I could have seen that. I was at that con, but only for a few hours.

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I don’t think these people care about George Lucas. They only care about their own twisted world view.

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SilverWook said:

I wish I could have seen that. I was at that con, but only for a few hours.

wow ! I wish I could have been there . here is a link to a picture of them and a write up of the convention…https://www.quora.com/Did-Gene-Roddenberry-Star-Trek-and-George-Lucas-Star-Wars-ever-meet-Were-they-friends-Were-they-aware-of-each-other now that is RESPECT and being non toxic adults

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adywan said:

To top it all, Sunday i was in Telford with my wife. I was wearing my Last Jedi T-shirt and, while we were waiting in a queue , three twenty-something year old guys approached and asked me how i could possibly wear that “thing” . The second i said it’s because i liked the film, the abuse started. Apparently my wife must be a lesbian because i was a “dickless w**ker” if i liked any of the disney crap that’s “just for women and gays”. They were lucky there was CCTV in the shop and that my wife was with me (plus i had only just got over a nasty bout of heat stroke), because i was about to lose it. Funny how they really didn’t like it when i said that at least i had a relationship and how the only way they would get sex with anything close to a female is by putting lipstick on their right hand. Not so brave all of a sudden when most of the shop started laughing at them. They left quickly when the security guard finally approached, but not before shouting some vile shit at us both when they were safely at a distance. Screw them. I will like what i want.

I probably would’ve let slip the dogs of war if I’d been in your position. I have an extremely low tolerance for such utter assholes.

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oojason said:

That’s sad, infuriating and troubling to hear, ady. Have people really lost the ability to isolate things they may like - or not - without the need to inform the world of their points of view in such a hateful and threatening manner? It seems increasingly so. As you say, it’s seemingly becoming the norm - worryingly so.

Hope your Mrs is okay after that, and also those 3 twats think again as to just why they were laughed at.

Dre is spot on - respect; it seems to be missing for some of these pricks.
 

I saw Chris’ response to a post re the ‘far left political propaganda film’ on your facebook page - I think he nailed it.

 

Yeh, it does seem to be the norm now, sadly. It’s almost as if there is something missing in their lives , or just plain ego, that if they hate something, the world must too.

I kept that one comment on the page because it wasn’t one of the bad ones, plus it showed what a bunch of numpties this lot are.

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Don’t those idiots know some female pilots were actually filmed for ROTJ?

Talking shit online is one thing, harassing someone for wearing a TLJ shirt in person? These morons don’t even deserve to be called Star Wars fans.

Can’t people who make threatening remarks on facebook be reported?

Try telling them about the female pilots and the response is almost always " they were deleted for a reason so your argument is invalid"

I reported every post and message that was threatening. Facebook doesn’t care. They claim it doesn’t go against their policies. Yet they are quick enough to act if you post something copyrighted or give you a temp ban for the most ridiculous reasons ( someone i know called his neighbours white trash and they kicked him off facebook for 30 days). They allow racist crap, threats etc all the time. Makes you wonder the types that are policing that site. This is the same reply i got off them to every one i reported:

So threatening someone with some real sick shit and saying i would get a bullet doesn’t go against their code of conduct. Right, got it facebook.

I don;t even bother to engage with them any more. Just delete and block/ ban. They want the retaliation and hate it when you ignore them. They demand to be heard 😉

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I wonder if it’s going to come down to the man himself, George Lucas, to tell these fans to knock it off or get lost. Gene Roddenberry once had to tell some misguided Trekkers back in the 1970’s to lay off protesting Star Wars or so the story goes.

Sadly, George is kind of responsible for the start of the Anti-Disney brigade. The moment he did the interview and called Disney “white slavers” and started acting like a child because Disney threw out his ideas, the ball started rolling. Those that see themselves as loyal to george, are now some of the most aggressive “we hate TLJ , Disney & Kennedy” commenters. They see Disney Star Wars as going against George. Even when George said he liked TLJ, it’s too late. They now claim anyone in the film industry, and others, who say TLJ is good, are being paid by Disney. They even go after Mark Hamill when he said he was wrong to be worried about Luke and realised as soon as he was filming. But they use edited interviews to say he is lying and conveniently ignore the ones he made a year before TLJ was out where he said it was down to him not like being taken out of his comfort zone. And then you have the off the cuff remarks, where people don;t seem to get Marks humour most of the time.

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And yet some of those people think Mark is going to surreptitiously help with that Patreon funded fan edit.

Anyway, I’m sorry you’re getting all this crap, Ady.

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That blows my mind that people can be that rude. Sorry you got confronted by such dolts.

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I dislike TLJ but I don’t hate it.
I DO hate it when publications use the comments received by anonymous trolls as
An excuse to claim the fandom has a “white male nerd problem”
Trolls or legit unwarranted and hateful comments do not justify racism and sexism against anyone. Especially a group that the Star Wars fanbase is predominantly made up of.

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I await your apology.
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/star-wars-has-a-white-male-fandom-problem
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jun/11/anti-disney-group-harassment-star-wars-female-actors-daisy-ridley-kelly-marie-tran
https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2018/05/29/as-solo-a-star-wars-story-flops-are-movies-about-white-men-box-office-poison/
https://www.quora.com/Why-has-Star-Wars-regressed-to-a-white-male-lead-again-in-their-upcoming-movie-after-the-proven-success-of-female-leads-in-the-last-three-SW-movies
https://hellogiggles.com/reviews-coverage/movies/star-wars-white-men-universe/
https://medium.com/@andrewgarofalo/are-star-wars-fans-angry-white-men-66bd89b8f14
https://mashable.com/2018/02/09/star-wars-white-male-filmmakers/

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screams in the void said:

I can’t see that statement as anything but inflammatory and conjecture as to what the fanbase is or is not made up of , see the OP and kindly stop , or exit the thread .

You wanna tell me to leave the thread? I’ll be rude right back
Enjoy the movies while they’re still being made bud, you won’t have trouble
finding seats for Episode 9

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This thread is against toxicity, Nicky.

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I don’t work for the mouse, I don’t care how many tickets are sold!

All I’m saying is I’m not digging your vibe here, man.

JEDIT: Plus, that wasn’t an attempt of intimidation. You think too highly of yourself if you think a rando on the internet is trying to threaten you over a movie.

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snooker said:

I don’t work for the mouse, I don’t care how many tickets are sold!

All I’m saying is I’m not digging your vibe here, man.

That’s totally like not far out bro

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My vibe? Pointing out that white men are being correlated with anonymous trolls that are being purposely hateful? With evidence no less. I said it in the previous thread and I’ll say it here. Do not politicize Star Wars

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Star Wars is inherently political.

Whatever you’re trying to start isn’t worth my time. I’m done.