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Netflix just premiered the trailer for its new show “Dear White People” and, not surprisingly, a lot of white people are really mad about it.

How do we know this? Well of the 500,000-plus people who watched the video on YouTube roughly 158,000 people pressed dislike; compared to 10,000 people who pressed like. Not only that, but comments like “F–k you Netflix” and “Boycott Netflix” are abundant. So you know it’s a hunch.

Which of course begs the question: Why are (some) white people so mad?

According to an official synopsis of the show it’s meant to be a comedy which “satirizes post-racial America as students of color navigate a predominantly white Ivy League college.”

In the teaser trailer an African-American woman addresses her fellow students on a loudspeaker and says “Dear white people. Here’s a list of acceptable Halloween costumes: pirate, slutty nurse, any of our first 43 presidents.”

Then adds, “Top of the list of unacceptable costumes: me.” Oh snap!

Turns out white people — or really people who associate with the alt-right — don’t want to be singled out as racist and they feel this video is doing exactly that. “So all white people are racists. F–k u Netflix
I’ve already Canceled my membership!,” wrote one commenter on YouTube.

Another said “You know what this means? 4 more years of Trump, Trump 2020! MAGA.”

People expressed their anger on Twitter too, because what else are they doing?

People are really mad about Netflix's new show "Dear White People"

Notably, many of the negative comments on social media were also super racist — so we won’t repost them — but we would like to point out the irony here.

Thankfully Justin Simien, the creator of the show, clapped-back at all the hate saying “I think what pisses people off is seeing a woman of color refer to white people en masse. Something she’d not dare be allowed in decades past.”

He continued “Equality feels like oppression to the privileged and thus three benign words send them into a fight for their very existence … This is how a minute long date announcement becomes a distorted call for white genocide in the minds of some people. Despite all signs to the contrary.” #MicDrop.

“Dear White People” premieres on Netflix April 28. We don’t know if it will be any good … but we do know it will result in lots of tweeting.

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