mcoractual
Well-Known Member
Re: Kathleen Kennedy to step down from Lucasfilm?
While I'm sure she did get some harassment, I always found it really, really odd that piece came from a third-party twitter account. It was a fan-run twitter account and not an official source such as Disney/LucasFilms. Add to the fact, after this story broke every main media outlet ran with it and called Star Wars fans toxic and the ilk (without even fact checking or seeing what the source was). There was no distinction made between those with legitimate dislike of TLJ and the idiot bigot morons who attack Tran for being a woman and being a minority. Usually when something like this happens, a statement is made from an official source... not a third party source. That's my legitimate issue with it.
Original source: https://twitter.com/swtweets/status/1003833275738013697?lang=en
Their twitter account: https://twitter.com/SWTweets?lang=en
Tran has not come forward to issue an official statement about the situation either, which compounds the odd nature of the event. Perhaps because of filming for Episode 9? Either way...
I don't know how that article is calling critics of TLJ bigots or sexist. I'm extremely critical of Disney's Star Wars but I didn't get the sense that I was being called those things. The only time I've been labeled as a bigot was on the RPF because I dared to propose it was wrong to harass Kelly Tran online.
While I'm sure she did get some harassment, I always found it really, really odd that piece came from a third-party twitter account. It was a fan-run twitter account and not an official source such as Disney/LucasFilms. Add to the fact, after this story broke every main media outlet ran with it and called Star Wars fans toxic and the ilk (without even fact checking or seeing what the source was). There was no distinction made between those with legitimate dislike of TLJ and the idiot bigot morons who attack Tran for being a woman and being a minority. Usually when something like this happens, a statement is made from an official source... not a third party source. That's my legitimate issue with it.
Original source: https://twitter.com/swtweets/status/1003833275738013697?lang=en
Their twitter account: https://twitter.com/SWTweets?lang=en
Tran has not come forward to issue an official statement about the situation either, which compounds the odd nature of the event. Perhaps because of filming for Episode 9? Either way...
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