Saturday, 22 January 2022

INTERNET OUTRAGE DEBUNKED - Disney hasn't renamed Boba Fett's starship

 The Internet is Full of Lies...

West End Game's Star Wars Galaxy Guide 3: The Empire Strikes Back (2nd edition) from 1996


Those who are outraged by outrage culture are usually the most outraged by things.

Boba Fett's starship is been called "Slave-1." That's certainly a name that upsets some people. And the idea that things get renamed to stop people getting upset upsets a completely different set of people.

So when Boba Fett called his ship his "Firespray Gunship," the anti-social justice crowd were quick to attack Disney for "yet another" politically correct attempt to rape their childhood.