Slashdot Mirror
Lego Accused of Racism With Star Wars Set
Ch_Omega writes "According to this article over at The Telegraph, Lego has been accused of racism by the Turkish community in Austria over a Star Wars model that supposedly resembles one of Istanbul's most revered mosques. The anger was provoked by 'Jabba's Palace,' a model of the home of Jabba the Hutt from Lego's Star Wars product range based on the blockbusting series of science fiction films. 'The terrorist Jabba the Hutt likes to smoke a hookah and have his victims killed,' said the statement posted on the organization's website. 'It is clear that the ugly figure of Jabba and the whole scene smacks of racial prejudice and vulgar insinuations against Asians and Orientals as people with deceitful and criminal personalities.'"
I am altering the world. Pray I don't alter it further.
Johnny Cash is also very offended that Darth Vader wears black and is dead.
I'm not sure anyone hypothetically running a toy company should issue a public statement telling people to "grow up".
Is there anything left in the world that the big bad white man hasn't destroyed through 'racism'?
Well, I guess that'll put the skids on the Armenian Genocide play set...
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
Yea because Muslims NEVER form terrorist groups, blow up innocent people or launder money.
It NEVER HAPPENED.
Are you kidding?
It puts its stereotypes in the basket!
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Nope....
http://www.theonion.com/video/use-of-nword-may-end-porn-stars-career,14174/
I'd love it if Lego replied:
"We're not portraying the revered Hagia Sophia mosque of Istanbul (which, btw ISN'T EVEN A MOSQUE since it was secularized in 1931)...no, we're portraying the Hagia Sophia CHURCH, the most holy church in Christendom until it was conquered by 'the religion of peace' in 1453."
What's "whiny bitch" in Byzantine?
-Styopa
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople.
I didn't learn this until I had a date in Constantinople and she was waiting in Istanbul.
Thankfully it's not a rectangle with rounded corners.
I find your belief in faith disturbing.
I find your lack of Star Wars savvy disturbing.
If you go back beyond the 1770's, yes, it kind of is :)
...gis sdrawkcab (usually not responding to ACs; don't bother posting as AC)
Throw it?
Not if I fire first.
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
well.. nobody better tell 'em history of hagia sofia either...
You mean that hagia sofia is actually based on Jabba's palace and not the other way around? The movies clearly say at the beginning: "A long time ago...".
I find my lack of meme knowledge... enlightening.