The core idea of that article - that fans who didn't like TLJ are the same as the tiny number of racist and misogynistic trolls who have attacked the film on the basis of representation of minorities or women (or even physically threatened people online) - is morally repugnant and the very worst in lazy (we're
still repeating the disproven lie that RT was bots?,) corporate pandering, opinion-as-fact, progressive-clickbait journalism.
And are we seriously... I mean
seriously... still trying to say that a film that sent such a deep schism through SW fandom has a "tiny" number of detractors? The core tenet of hundreds of these identical (often wording as well as content) articles since December is that something like 95-97% of fans liked/loved TLJ and 3-5% (or less) didn't.
In this article, those who disliked TLJ were: "a small but determined minority" (not just a minority, but a
small one) then later "it HAS to be a minority" and always termed "fans" (in quotations in FIVE places in this article.)
But TLJ fans who created hashtags supporting the film were "promoting mental health awareness, diversity inclusion and a sense of positive thinking among the Star Wars faithful." Oh, brother...
The question is: why, if we are talking about a tiny minority of fans (seemingly a few hundred or thousand out of millions of fans,) do we still see dozens of these identical-narrative "support/love TLJ and hate the haters and their hate" articles almost six months after the theatrical release, and six weeks after the home video release? I mean when millions love something and a few hundred don't, doesn't the love just drown everything out by its sheer scale?
