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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStefan Molyneux Thinks New Star Wars Film Is About The Decline Of White People
In a video uploaded on Sunday, Molyneux claimed that the newest Star Wars film contains a hidden commentary about the plight of white men as Western countries diversify. Molyneux has published other videos in which he claims to spot hidden right-wing narratives in films.
Some of you are going to respond and say, Are you sure thats what the writers intended? and the only people who say that are people who arent themselves creative writers, Molyneux said, going on to claim he wrote a short story when he was six and a novel when he was 11 years old. He began his explanation by comparing Luke Skywalker to white men he believes have been marginalized.
So Luke Skywalker has checked out of societyha, isnt that interesting? Hes a white male whos checked out of society. And we see this all over the place with white males, right? I mean, theyre not happy. Neither is Luke Skywalker happy. Hes got this bitter, gristled, half-homeless kind of determination to survive another day but for no particular purpose other than to watch the slow extinguishing of his own possibilities and his own life, Molyneux said. He went on to explain that he believed Luke Skywalkers lack of children was reflective of the demographic decline among the whites that is happening in Europe and in North America and foretold a quasi-extinction of white people in the not so distant future.
Molyneux explained that when Luke Skywalker abandons the Jedi forces in the film, it reflects how white people have abandoned their culture.
Whites are not allowed to have a history to be proud of, not allowed to have in-group preferences, the religion of the West must be burnedand this, of course, you see the tree and the Jedi texts get burned down and its the end of a lineage. Its the end of a history. It is the end of culture, Molyneux said.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/stefan-molyneux-thinks-new-star-wars-film-is-about-the-decline-of-white-people/
rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)I think there was a terrorist that murdered two teens in New Mexico. That pos became a white supremacist.
DBoon
(22,367 posts)He is just that kind of wacko
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Initech
(100,080 posts)Archae
(46,335 posts)Latest being the "fire fighter prophet" Mark Taylor.
Now that bastard is claiming that "Big Pharma" (sound familiar?) is covering up cures for cancer and Alzheimers, but "God told him" that in Trump's second term, he'd release them.
Initech
(100,080 posts)I call it "Holy Shit" because you know it's full of holy shit.
Tiggeroshii
(11,088 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,736 posts)Their destiny is in their own hands.
Yavin4
(35,441 posts)I really don't think so.
blogslut
(38,002 posts)It is a franchise installment from a series based on a road-trip film about two robots.
Blue_Adept
(6,399 posts)and film in general is about.
"It's just entertainment" is the weakest of things to say.
gerryconway.tumblr.com/post/168656065013/star-wars-the-generations-time-to-talk-about
blogslut
(38,002 posts)I'm old enough to remember that Star Wars came out at the tail-end of one of the most interesting and depressing decades in American cinema. After years and years of "message pictures" Lucas re-introduced audiences to the thrills and joy of the Saturday afternoon matinee. Star Wars was pure escapism, dressed up in special effects that were better that its predecessors.
George Lucas let the fandom go to his head and turned the whole thing into "serious business", sucking all the joy and delight out of it.
I'm glad Disney took creative control away from him.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,321 posts)It's as if this guy hasn't seen or read another movie or book, let alone ever analysed literature or films before. Maybe we should start him with Anna Karenina:
"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)They're the failures in the series. The women are doing just fine, as are the droids and wookies. White men? Looks like their time is over. They're being replaced by a young white WOMAN!