Netflix is facing a massive backlash with scores of (white) people cancelling their accounts after the streaming giant launched its first trailer for ‘Dear White People’ – a comedy series about racial politics on a uni campus.
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‘Dear White People’ is supposed to “satirise ‘post-racial’ America as students of colour navigate a predominantly white Ivy League college.”
Here’s the trailer:
So judging by the amount of Dislikes on that video and the amount of bitching happening online, there are lots of very angry people who have a massive problem with this show.
Here’s some of the reaction from Twitter:
BYE NETFLIX. Your show "Dear White People" is racist and offensive and you just lost my family's eyes.
— Shadow Man (@Shadow29303) February 8, 2017
I'm canceling my account b/c of the racially insensitive Dear White People show. You don't get any more of my $. #BoycottNetflix
— Mick Fury (@JerusalemFury) February 8, 2017
Sure, Netflix can hate white people if they want but I won't be part of it. Money talks, people. Cancel your Netflix membership!
— Victor Nor (@RealVictorNor) February 8, 2017
https://twitter.com/_Makada_/status/829457004267581440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Netflix announced a new anti-white show (Dear White People) that promotes white genocide.
I cancelled my account, do the same. #NoNetflix pic.twitter.com/2HIGqviLHj
— Baked Alaska™ (@bakedalaska) February 8, 2017
That last guy made a big mistake broadcasting his own e-mail address like that though – LOL:
RIP MY EMAIL
Some idiot just added me to 7,000 mailing lists. pic.twitter.com/eBRxiIAgXD
— Baked Alaska™ (@bakedalaska) February 8, 2017
So why would it piss people off that there’s a show trying to depict the black experience of attending at a top American university? To be fair, the title ‘Dear White People’ might be a bit condescending and the whole premise of the show is kinda annoyingly pandering, but who really cares at the end of the day, especially if it’s a good show. Besides, most of these Twitter drama queens will probably sign back up to Netflix as soon as Stranger Things 2 drops anyway.
For the best anti-racism social experiment you will ever see, check out this powerful video from Lithuania.
