Official Star Wars Account Calls Out Racist Trolls After Obi Wan’s Moses Ingram Shares Vile DMs

After making her debut on the present’s first two episodes as villainous Inquisitor Reva final week, Ingram revealed on Monday that she’s obtained “lots of” of racist and hateful messages for the reason that premiere — and proceeded to indicate a few of them in her Instagram Story.

“[Your] days are numbered,” learn one. “You suck loser. You are a variety rent and you will not be liked or remembered for this performing position,” learn one other, whereas a 3rd stated, “You may have now been transformed into the Saint George of Floydium of Star Wars, are you content?”

“Lengthy story quick, there are lots of of these. A whole lot,” Ingram stated in a video shared after the DMs. “I additionally see these of you on the market who placed on a cape for me and that basically does imply the world for me as a result of there’s nothing anyone can do about this. There’s nothing anyone can do to cease this hate.”

Saying she questioned why she was even sharing her expertise, Ingram added that what “bothers” her is feeling like she has to “simply gotta shut up and take it” or “grin and bear it.” She additionally stated this wasn’t an expectation placed on her by anybody, including, “I am not constructed like that.”

“I actually simply needed to return on and say thanks to the individuals who present up for me within the feedback and the locations I am not going to place myself and to the remainder of y’all, y’all bizarre,” she concluded.

As her title continued to pattern on Twitter into Tuesday, the official Star Wars account defended Ingram.

“We’re proud to welcome Moses Ingram to the Star Wars household and excited for Reva’s story to unfold. If anybody intends to make her really feel in any means unwelcome, now we have just one factor to say: we resist,” learn the account’s tweet. In a second message, they added, “There are greater than 20 million sentient species within the Star Wars galaxy, do not select to be a racist.”

The message got here after the account additionally took a stance towards hate thrown at Billie Lourd — the daughter of the late Carrie Fisher — and Kelly Marie Tran, who was the topic of racist commentary as properly when “The Final Jedi” dropped.

The account was selling the duo’s look at Star Wars Celebration over the weekend when one follower responded saying, “Respectfully nobody likes both of them.” The social media supervisor responded by mentioning how they’d been ratioed with their remark and have been taking the “L” with their opinion.

New episodes of “Obi-Wan Kenobi” drop Thursdays on Disney+.