The state of the Star Wars franchise in China has not been good since Disney’s excretion of the Sequel Trilogy.

Your local college produces these naive and uneducated baizuo savages.
HAPPY DAYS
Back in 2015, Disney spared no expense in marketing the franchise in China prior to the release of The Force Awakens:
Despite this, The Force Awakens performed poorly in China, and some attributed that to the franchise’s lack of “cultural cachet” in the far east nation. Except for the fact that The Force Awakens actually broke records in China, for its first Saturday opening. Only during the second weekend did the film drop 72%. This indicated that while TFA had a strong opening weekend in China, moviegoers there weren’t willing to come back for subsequent re-viewings, a scenario that would replay here in the United States.
Shortly before the release of Episode VIII, some pondered how The Last Jedi would perform in China.
The Wrap proclaimed:
Variety boldly claimed:
Others claimed that The Last Jedi’s mythology mirrored that of the Founding Mythology of the Chinese Communist Party.
Others wrote of how The Last Jedi wove in Chinese cultural elements into its narrative, such as wuchu, Macau, the Red Thread of Fate, and of course, Yin and Yang.
The increasing cultural diversity in the casting was thought to appeal to a wider international market:
REALITY BITES
In China, The Last Jedi was a bomb. Plain and simple.
After only a week in China, 92% of theaters dropped the film and was pulled entirely after the 2nd weekend.
The Star Wars brand in China is so toxic, that Disney is dropped “Star Wars” from the title of the Han Solo movie being released there.
Jonathan Papish, Chinese Film Industry Analyst, tweeted out the following:
SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY gets off to a dismal start in China with est. ¥0.75M ($0.12M) from midnights. >$10M opening weekend incoming and a complete collapse thereafter as the franchise continues its downward spiral in China
Midnight Comps
TFA ¥16M
Rogue One ¥3.7M
Last Jedi ¥3.5M pic.twitter.com/BeWhFnO8w9— China Box Office (@ChinaBoxOffice) May 24, 2018
One has to wonder, if The Force Awakens‘ massive drop after its opening weekend in China portended what was to come with The Last Jedi there, then will The Last Jedi’s massive drop after opening weekend in the United States likewise portend what is to come domestically for Episode IX?
A REVISED NARRATIVE
Since none of the above predictions came true, the narrative had to be quickly altered.
In reaction to the above news, many supporters claimed that The Last Jedi was never expected to do well in China because the “cultural differences” were just too great, and that there just wasn’t the same kind of nostalgic fervor for the films since they were never seen there until just recently. According to SJW pundits, the franchise lacked “cultural cache” in China. This despite the fact that Black Panther wildly outperformed The Last Jedi in China.
Many SJWs made the following argument, or some variation thereof:
Scott Mendelson continued his duties as the Disney Information Minister:
But what was the actual problem? Maybe we might listen to the Chinese themselves.
CHINESE APATHY
Chinese audience members saw the disconnect in the behavior of familiar characters to be anything but cultural:
“In Star Wars, it seems only Darth Vader had a brain — it’s such a shame he’s already dead.”
The Chinese it seems saw the same problem in the film that other cultures did, as one Chinese moviegoer claimed that:
Additionally, the diverse casting did absolutely nothing for the Chinese audience. One Chinese fan stated:
As a result of their experience with The Last Jedi, Variety reported on Chinese movie goers not being very excited to see Solo. According to Variety:
And if Disney chooses to represent homosexual characters in Episode IX, then the communist Chinese government may have problems with allowing the film into the country at all.
So what did the Chinese see in all of this? Why exactly did these new movies from Disney did the Chinese feel insulted their IQs?
RISE OF THE USEFUL IDIOTS
Apparently, a new epithet for white leftists has emerged in China. Baizuo.
Although the emphasis varies, baizuo is used generally to describe those who “only care about topics such as immigration, minorities, LGBT and the environment” and “have no sense of real problems in the real world”; they are hypocritical humanitarians who advocate for peace and equality only to “satisfy their own feeling of moral superiority”; they are “obsessed with political correctness” to the extent that they “tolerate backwards Islamic values for the sake of multiculturalism”; they believe in the welfare state that “benefits only the idle and the free riders”; they are the “ignorant and arrogant westerners” who “pity the rest of the world and think they are saviours”.
So what are the chances, that Chinese citizens who are already oppressed by social justice madness from their own government, want to spend their time in a theater being preached to by the naive screenwriting baizuos at Lucasfilm who want to impose even more moronic social justice lectures onto them.
So “cultural cache” had nothing to do with anything. The fact of the matter is, the baizuos within Lucasfilm killed their chances in the Chinese film market by pushing their own moronic political agenda. The Chinese people have already heard all of that nonsense from their own government, and they’re understandably unimpressed.
Thanks to a tip from Planet of the Jawas and Demonscythe Synthwave.
Then: I believe the original Star Wars was meant to be an analog to the American Revolution. The opening date was in May of 1977, which means is was mainly produced during the American bi-centennial year which was a very patriotic celebration and also helps account for it’s amazing popularity at the time.
Now: “The Resistance” = Space Commies.
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“Now: “The Resistance” = Space Commies.”
I disagree. Sometimes writers accidentally create things that are the total opposite of their views. (Example: Uber-liberal Joss Whedon created the very libertarian Firefly/Serenity.) According to the Disney lore, the New Republic were more or less a bunch of liberals who voted to disarm and pretend everything would be sunshine and rainbows. Leia didn’t buy into it, and formed her own little group to keep an eye on the remnants of the Empire. So I’d say Leia’s Resistance is (oddly enough) more like a private militia.
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More like Leia’s Red Army or Leia’s RAF.
This is how the hardcore always goes. You have the flower power idiots, but then you also have the ones who start killing.
Going by Disney lore Leia would be like Baader or Meinhof. She even “purged” Poe, without trial, without hearing, without even as much as a Captain’s Mast in classic hardcore Japanese Red Army fashion (these particular geniuses purged themselves while under siege by the police.) In that particular scene she truly was her father’s daughter. Vader would have killed Poe, of course, but outside of that? She has truly become what Rukh and the other noghri in real Star Wars canon called Lady Vader.
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I wonder if baizuo can be compared to the epithet ‘NPC’.
I posted this on subreddit r/saltierthancrait:
“Here’s something that I hope gains traction:
I picture the Empire/First Order (as are hundred, if not thousands, of other examples) as NAZI Germany (that morphed into a general white patriarchal domination). Remember, we aren’t very far away from the OBAMA reign which saw shakedown rackets and the grievance industry become mainstream.
So, of course most look at their choice of villain and reflect on the real world. Truth is, Germany has been beaten down. It isn’t nearly as powerful a threat.
So why wouldn’t Star Wars tackle Islam – an ideology we are all too familiar with, as GloboJihadInc is always lurking. How about an Islam-type villain, mysterious and shrouded in myth and terrors.
The rebels? The first couple movies will show them being completely turned out by the new villain (come on, the antifa/Sorosian left are bong-heads).
And then in movie three, what happens? Here’s the good part: remnants of the rebel force seek out and recruit members of the Empire, real tacticians and soldiers who may be the only defense against annihilation by the ‘Galactic Crescent.’
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That’s too clever for anyone working in Disney or Lucasfilm at the moment.
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That was a good read. This part sums up the whole issue at hand. It was,
“this whole film really insults the IQ of its audience!”
He can say that again! And you know what? I believe I will say it again..
“this whole film really insults the IQ of its audience!”
Case closed.
P.S. I also get a kick out of the Di$ney War$ $hill media acting like the Chinese market isn’t of any concern. Really? That is why Di$ney was trying to bend over backwards by renaming SOLO to Ranger Solo!
Yeah they definitly don’t care sbout the Chinese market…
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight…
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Dear China,
https://disneystarwarsisdumb.wordpress.com/the-phases-of-a-geeker-gate/
the above link points to a document which contains very useful information on how to protect your Intellectual Property from an invasive species which has become aware that you don’t really like their ideology. I wish you well, and hope you fare better than we have.
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So I presume “baizuos” is pronounced “bo-zos”?
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