Star Wars and the Left: The Farce Awakens

Perhaps you’ve heard this week’s absurdity—MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry (who I am told was somewhere cited as a leading intellectual of our time, but we’ve already explained here how that could be possible) complains that Star Wars is racist because Darth Vader is black. As Glenn Reynolds asks, how is it that Hollywood is such a den of racism?

Anyway, our pals at Reason TV have come up with an MSNBC-friendly trigger warning crawl that Disney had best include in the movie before it opens to general release on Friday (less than one minute long):

As Reason puts it: “These are the microaggressions you’ve been looking for.”

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