#most notably Luke & Leia but also Ezra & Caleb/Kanan

[notaplaceofhonour]

also, like, the central event that marks anakin’s transformation from jedi to sith is anakin leading a literal genocide against the jedi for his master, the brutal dictator of the galaxy? murdering a room of jedi children with his own hands? murdering his wife? trying to murder his teacher & brother?

the story absolutely depicts the jedi order as flawed, but the flaws the jedi are shown to be guilty of are losing their way, and playing into the sith’s hand.

the sith, by contrast, are shown to be guilty of genocide and a fascist autocratic takeover of the galaxy—crimes that anakin’s transformation from jedi to sith are explicitly tied to.

i think it's great that people who've suffered religious trauma feel a connection to anakin. i also think it's deeply troubling that the majority of them are either unable to recognize or unwilling to admit that the religion he was indoctrinated into and abused by was the sith and not, in fact, the jedi.

[galaxycloseclosebeside]

#and that’s just in-universe#don’t even get me started on the meta aspects of the sith being inspired by the Nazis (and no I’m not just talking aesthetics)#& the Jedi having an entire underground railroad system to escape genocide reminiscent of those used to spirit Black ppl out of slavery#as well as efforts to spirit Jews out of Europe during the Shoah#and the prevelance of Hebrew names among Jedi#especially in the era when Jedi are trying to survive a genocide#most notably Luke & Leia but also Ezra & Caleb/Kanan#(Kanan -> Canaan??) (even Ezra’s parents have Hebrew names)#and the parallels between the destruction of the temple & being forced into exile with the events of Order 66#the guy in charge of writing the book of Sith literally said Mein Kampf is one of several books it was based on

i think it's great that people who've suffered religious trauma feel a connection to anakin. i also think it's deeply troubling that the majority of them are either unable to recognize or unwilling to admit that the religion he was indoctrinated into and abused by was the sith and not, in fact, the jedi.