The official Star Wars Facebook account recently posted an image condemning violence against Asian-American Pacific Islanders during the Lunar New Year or the Chinese New Year. Fans responded to the post by calling them out for their hypocrisy and double standards noting they actively support the Chinese government that enslaves our fellow human beings.
The Facebook account posted, “The celebration of the Lunar New Year has been marred by the continued wave of violence against Asian-American Pacific Islanders across the United States. We have spent the last week learning and listening to our friends, colleagues, and partners who are most affected.”
It continues, “We stand with our AAPI family and want to amplify the voices of organizations that fight for civil rights and stand against hate: Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC and Stop AAPI Hate.”
The post concludes, “Please join us in supporting the important work they’re doing in fighting racism.”
Star Wars fans en masse were not having it. Every single comment I saw was taking the brand, Lucasfilm, and Disney to task for their cozy relationship with China as evidenced by the shrinking of John Boyega’s Finn on a Chinese poster for The Force Awakens and thanking the communist party of Xinjiang, where the Uyghur concentration camps are held, in their Mulan movie.
Many of the comments called out Star Wars and their parent company Disney for their silence on the Chinese government using the Uyghurs as slave labor.
The
Australian Strategic Policy Institute “estimates that more than 80,000 Uyghurs were transferred out of Xinjiang to work in factories across China between 2017 and 2019, and some of them were sent directly from detention camps.”
They add, “The estimated figure is conservative and the actual figure is likely to be far higher.”
They aren’t just enslaving the Uyghurs,
The BBC recently reported that women in the camps “have been systematically raped, sexually abused, and tortured.”
Gulzira Auelkhan told The BBC, “My job was to remove their clothes above the waist and handcuff them so they cannot move.”
She added, “Then I would leave the women in the room and a man would enter – some Chinese man from outside or policeman. I sat silently next to the door, and when the man left the room I took the woman for a shower.”
Auelkhan also revealed that Chinese men “would pay money to have their pick of the prettiest young inmates.”
Not only is China enslaving the Uyghurs, but they also have a policy of kidnapping the children of their own people and selling them to orphanages.
The United States Department of State reported in 2011, “Kidnapping and buying and selling children for adoption increased over the past several years, particularly in poor rural areas. There were no reliable estimates of the number of children kidnapped; however, according to media reports, as many as 20,000 children were kidnapped every year for illegal adoption.”
And the kidnapping was not just done by criminals it was done by government forces as well as documented in Amazon’s One Child Nation documentary.
