Star Wars Deletes Twitter Poll Asking Fans If They Would Be Resistance or First Order After People Complain About Fascism

Star Wars Deletes Twitter Poll Asking Fans If They Would Be Resistance or First Order After People Complain About Fascism

The Star Wars Twitter account deleted a poll that asked fans whether or not they would be part of the Resistance or the First Order in the new Star Wars trilogy.

The poll was highly criticized by many people who were trying to equate the fictional universe of Star Wars to what appears to be real world politics.

Many of them apparently have never heard of the game Star Wars: The Old Republic, or Star Wars Galaxies, or Star Wars Battlefront II, or any of the Star Wars LEGO games where players are able to choose sides whether its Sith or Jedi, Empire or Rebellion, Resistance or Fist Order.

In fact, Disney is actually producing a television show called The Mandalorian based on a bounty hunter, who are normally associated with the Empire. One of the most popular Star Wars books is Timothy Zahn’s Thrawn trilogy, and Marvel Comics’ Darth Vader and Darth Maul series have been successful.

Nevertheless they declared that the poll was a way to discover people who are “fascist.”

YouTuber Vito captured a number of Twitter users who indicated they think that people who chose the First Order in the poll are fascists.

We found some more examples below:

This is a weird way to find out who is a fascist — Jessica Ellis (@baddestmamajama) April 12, 2019

“I’d join an SS division because they have cool uniforms!” Does that make the joining better? Truth is both the question and the First Order answers merely didn’t consider the implications of what they just said, but it’s a hilariously bad look. — piotr (@aerfdbzfdbgaerg) April 13, 2019

Yeah it’s fuckin star wars so what? Most of the people who answered First Order are not actual fascists but that’s how the answer made them look. They essentially asked “would you join space nazis?” and people answered yes. That gives a really bad impression. — piotr (@aerfdbzfdbgaerg) April 13, 2019

“Hands up who likes fascism?” https://t.co/RbKvccySLG — Jim Sterling (@JimSterling) April 12, 2019

16,454 people say they would side with space Nazis. — Sobblysis (@RileyGryc) April 13, 2019

They are probably already regular Nazis now so it’s not that big of a stretch — notDOUGTHEKING (@mcougal_sean) April 13, 2019

I don’t understand how the social media team for disney wars didn’t consider the implications of making an online poll that amounts to “do you like fascism y/n” — Linguica (@andrewrstine) April 12, 2019

Hmmm….. space nazis or the resistance? 27% of the fans are facists. They should cancel #StarWarsJediFallenOrder and #StarWarsEpisodeIX since it clearly brings joy to nazis and the alt-right pic.twitter.com/Gqw6wn9bxD — ♀️ RiotGamingMag ♀️ (@RiotGamingMag) April 14, 2019

All this Star Wars hype, while most people blend out that at least half the “fanbase” strongly idolizes space nazis. And we really wonder why white nationalism & right-wing terrorism is on the rise all around the world again? Why do people not see this. — Dana Banana 🏳‍🌈🌍🧜🏻‍♀️ (@Dana_Lurchliebe) April 13, 2019

What do you make of Star Wars pulling down their poll? What do you make of the reaction to this poll about Star Wars fans expressing their interest in which faction they like?

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