Netflix debuted the teaser dawdler for their original series Dear White People earlier today and would n’t you know it , some very predictable multitude were n’t proud of ! A summation of the34 - second teasermight be “ blackface is regretful ! ” which most sane , compassionate soul would agree with . But if the cyberspace were populated only by the sane and compassionate , we ’d never have hashtags like # BoycottNetflix .
Netflix announced a raw anti - blanched show ( Dear White People ) that promotes white genocide .
I cancel my account , do the same.#NoNetflixpic.twitter.com/2HIGqviLHj
— Baked Alaska ( @bakedalaska)February 8 , 2017
chirrup users — including former Buzzfeed employee and # TrumpCupcreator Baked Alaska — have been post picture of their cancellations to the video streaming service of process today in preparation for the series ’s April 28 debut . Multiple yarn have also cropped up on 4chan ’s /pol/ board and Reddit ’s r / the_donald , the mostegregious and upsettingof which is simply titled “ Netflix Original : Dear White People . ” It contains only a photo of the young mankidnapped in Chicagolast month , jump and gagged . Is the implication that this show survive on a political program where drug user can elect not to catch it is in any agency similar to a criminal hostage situation ? Who fucking know .
The gist of on-line offence around Dear White People is that it ’s being perceive by some extremely thin - skinned people as “ anti - white . ” Strangely there were no calls to boycott theaters when the motion picture this serial is based on — also telephone Dear White People — debut in 2014 , or when the deal between Lionsgate and Netflix was announced last yr .
If this is the kind of programing@Netflixwants to partner with , I have no problem cancel my subscription.#BoycotTNetflixhttps://t.co / sIC5ypwcYK
— Alex Roltner ( @AlexRoltner)February 8 , 2017
Then again , those in need of a safe blank to be racist have been boycott a whole lot lately . /pol/ ’s Discord chat spend much of the Super Bowl issuing boycotts against companies whose commercials suffer their feelings — including Kia , Audi , Budweiser , and T - Mobile . Prior to that , Starbucks was “ threatened ” witha boycottof sorts ( again ) after pledging to engage 10,000 refugees . Back in November a alike online contingentthreatened to boycottcompanies as far - ranging as Pepsi , ConAgra , Facebook , and Tic Tacs ( Netflix made that list too . )
As the country becomes increasingly politically divided , those on both sides of the aisle have been make their representative find out with their pocketbook . A left-wing boycott of Uber for its connexion with the Trump presidential term resulted in an excuse from CEO Travis Kalanick andhis surrender fromTrump ’s Strategic and Policy Forum .
Some protests lick . This one wo n’t .
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