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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 8706114" data-attributes="member: 4937">To be quite frank, this feels like concern trolling here.&nbsp; By definition, the idea of tokenism is that they wrote the role to be black because they wanted to check off a diversity box as the primary consideration for the character, but that they had no real interest in the character as a character except for its value in marketing as diversity.&nbsp; And this was a controversial position to adopt early in the making of the films since it says nasty things about the Disney executives with little hard evidence to back that assertion up, but at this point I don't feel the critics are the ones with the fringe position, since the group of people who now say this about the character of Finn includes John Boyega himself who quite rightly I think feels ill-used and lied to.&nbsp; Boyega in his widely covered &quot;farewell&quot; interview with GQ accused Finn of being a token character and that he was cast in the role solely so that Disney could have a person of color in the marketing for the movie and then pushed him and his character aside.&nbsp; So if you want to do your concern trolling and accuse people of being a racist for thinking that, take it up with John Boyega at this point.Not apparently John Boyega who seems to have issues with the writers and directors that echo a lot of the concerns of the people I were told were &quot;toxic racists&quot; when the movies were being made.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 8706114, member: 4937"] To be quite frank, this feels like concern trolling here. By definition, the idea of tokenism is that they wrote the role to be black because they wanted to check off a diversity box as the primary consideration for the character, but that they had no real interest in the character as a character except for its value in marketing as diversity. And this was a controversial position to adopt early in the making of the films since it says nasty things about the Disney executives with little hard evidence to back that assertion up, but at this point I don't feel the critics are the ones with the fringe position, since the group of people who now say this about the character of Finn includes John Boyega himself who quite rightly I think feels ill-used and lied to. Boyega in his widely covered "farewell" interview with GQ accused Finn of being a token character and that he was cast in the role solely so that Disney could have a person of color in the marketing for the movie and then pushed him and his character aside. So if you want to do your concern trolling and accuse people of being a racist for thinking that, take it up with John Boyega at this point. Not apparently John Boyega who seems to have issues with the writers and directors that echo a lot of the concerns of the people I were told were "toxic racists" when the movies were being made. [/QUOTE]

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