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Jay Baeman

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Rave-25-she/they. Gif maker and RedLetterMedia enthusiast. I adore Jay Bauman. Requests open.
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The way Jayโ€™s hair is just flopping around when theyโ€™re destroying the set and then he pushes it back with his handsโ€ฆ.it just really gets me.

Anonymous asked:

Hey it's the obscure meme submitter again.I should maybe be asking reddit but do you know what happened with Jack and some sort of "star wars conspiracy"?? I tried to read an article and did not understand wtf was happening cause I'm new here. I then came upon some posts calling RLM bigots and now I can't unsee it. Is there like an alt right contingent to their fanbase?

Ok so I usually stay away from controversy or outside drama of any sort and just watch the YouTube vids for fun but for those wondering, anon is referring to this tweet by Jack:

Where he is retweeting this article thatโ€™s basically about how alt-right and white supremacy groups negatively targeted The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi for having a diverse cast of strong characters and that played some part in why The Rise of Skywalker sucked, because I guess these hate groups got what they wanted which was to erase that diversity as much as possible (I.e. giving Poe a criminal backstory, downgrading Finnโ€™s main character role significantly, making Rey special for her lineage rather than her own merit and skill, basically erasing Rose, etc.) thereby ruining the whole sequel trilogy with a disappointing ending.

I only skimmed the article, but it seems to be that it is not agreeing with the alt right criticisms, but the author is simply explaining how said criticisms lead to the bad retconning of the story/characters in order to appeal to bigoted โ€œfans,โ€ I guess, and that holding negative views against certain minority characters can lead to holding those views against minorities in real life. From looking at the tweet, it seems to me that Jack is just agreeing with the articleโ€™s point about how hate, racism, and misogyny overpowered the ending of the franchise and tainted it (and that hating diversity in the franchise can/has lead to more extremist hate views for some fans). Some people are taking it as Jack agreeing with the alt-right stance, but Iโ€™m personally not getting that from this. In my opinion thatโ€™s not whatโ€™s happening and people are taking his response the wrong way by saying he himself is alt-right. If anyone else has more info or a different explanation, please share as I donโ€™t know anything beyond the tweet and the article.

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