Texas pupil banned from wearing Star Wars t-shirt showing Stormtrooper with a gun

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Posted by Wordsmith on 14 December, 2015 at 1:54 am. 6 comments already!

       

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A 12-year-old Star Wars fan has been told not to wear his Stormtrooper t-shirt to school, because it shows a character holding a blaster.

Colton Southern arrived at school on Thursday wearing a t-shirt with the logo from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The film, which opens on Friday, is one of the most hyped premieres this year.

But his teachers at George Junior High School in Rosenberg, Texas told him that the t-shirt was inappropriate and he had to cover it up, and not wear it again.

“It’s political correctness run amok,” said Colton’s father, Joe.

“You’re talking about a Star Wars t-shirt, a week before the biggest movie of the year comes out. It has nothing to do with guns or making a stand. It’s just a Star Wars shirt.”

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Apparently, it was just a white kid since the media has not exploded with stories of some version of racism.

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Is there a point at which we can demand they use common sense. Its a bully tactic think as I think or else.

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@Wordsmith: they find racism in everything what a sad existance

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@Wordsmith: I was listening to her rant and how she made every comparison between evil and black (which existed long before the butt-hurt epidemic spread throughout society) and I wondered, who was it, exactly… which “brown-ish” people was it that INSISTED upon being called BLACK rather than any other ID?

Is that OUR fault? Or, Darth’s?

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Now there are grumblings about China being racist by minimizing Boyega in posters. Was that motivated by racism or something apart from it? Boyega’s image is quite prominent in this Tiawan subway.

Stumbled across this guy’s opining:

Ok, I’ve written about China’s racism in the past, and I’m in no way trying to detract from any of that – it’s simply horrible here. Even today I had to yell at a woman for referring to me as a “thing”, and not as a person.

But I’ve got to give my honest opinion about this.

I honestly don’t think this had anything to do with racism. It was modifying it for a Chinese market. They emphasized the old while minimizing the new and uncluttered the rest. But because they didn’t feel it would be right to remove any un-costumed main characters, they left them in, reduced them in comparison to the older characters/ships, and removed the least recognizable costumed character in China (Chewy). Then they put the new droid right at the front, because that IS going to be a big selling point to Chinese – they love stuff like that; I’m pretty sure he will be the star of the show for most Chinese, and end up on everything from phone cases to clothing.

Seriously – take a look at the two posters and tell me which one seems more cluttered. Then think of which one reminds you more of the original Star Wars?

That’s all they were doing – I honestly don’t think race had anything to do with it.

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/08/asia/star-wars-china-racist-poster/index.html

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