#so depicting the empire as racially neutral and discriminating only against aliens and droids is. huh. bad. and drawing comparisons between | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

samaspic31 · 2 years ago

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Exactly. has star wars always tried to be radically progressive ? sure, yeah, the ot compared the alliance to vietnamese anti american imperialism resistance, the prequels depicted victims of religious persecution and genocide as sympathetic at the height of demonisation of islam and violence in the middle east. Has it always suceed? does it give characters played by actors of all ethnicities the same care ? does it avoid falling into racist tropes? fuck no. And it’s undebatable it historically has centered white characters. So yeah the dudebros are wrong to say star wars’ thesis is either politically neutral or milquetoast liberal “both sides have flaws”, but that doesn’t make star wars good at being radical and exempt of examination of how itself perpetuated racism in many instances. both can coexist.

"in star wars, the villains are old white men for a reason" and the heroes are almost always young white people. So.

#remember when the indigneous population of endor took c3po for a god. like yeah in rotj the victory is brought by collaboration #i could write an essay on how filoni and claudia gray's idea of discrimination in the star wars universe is flawed and allows for #harmful narratives around race and queerness to be parroted #the whole there's no racism in between humans based on race but there is anti immigration sentiment and anti non human discrimination #and no homophobia all this applied to both resistance and imperial circles #is so so fucked. racialized people and queer folks were very very real victims of fascitic systems and that is by design #facism necessitates to manufacture unjustified hierarchies based on divising and pitting people of opposing identities as much as possible #so depicting the empire as racially neutral and discriminating only against aliens and droids is. huh. bad. and drawing comparisons between #marginalized people and robots/aliens is just a very difficult thing to pull off without being offensive. see : oola #and it's not like it's gotten significantly better #filoni redid the ahahah aliens take c3po for a god in tcw and recently had a black woman as a looter in the bad batch #as if portraying black people as criminals wasn't something one should be very careful about; and since irl africa was looted by europe #of its cultural artefacts it wasn't very uncomfortable to have a black woman help a group of withwashed men loot artefacts for money #anyways bigotry in star wars. man.#PH AND QUEERNESS #queerness in disney star wars. my beloathed. similarly to race th empire is coded as indifferent to gender non conformity and gay attractio #as is shown in lost stars with the two main protagonists having each an openly gnc gay coded best friend in the imperial academy thriving #in the belly of facism which is. not accurate to how facism operates anywhere #same with the protagonist of lost stars who is a black woman victim of discrimation on her planet; not for her race but for being part of #the first wave of settlers; and her father rejoices of the rise of the empire because it will and i quote #put everyone on the same level by oppressing everyone equally #this is so inaccurate but how any facist regime works !! i keep making that point because yeah some liberties with historical fonctionment #of facism can be taken. but those depicting the very victims of facism as its happy enforcers and not tokens is just a very tasteless and #offensive narrative to portray. and it's born of unwillingness to confront what writing a character having a marginalized identity actually #entails and is to avoid #anyways so that girl joins the empire. and is narratively rewarded by facing less discrimination. LESS DISCRIMINATION WITHIN IMPERIALISM.#this book drove me insane #ch pls let me know if i overstepped with my comment #anwayways not superprised claudia gray is friends with miss colonialism book ek johnston #both have a very dictinct and frustrating way of writing queerness in tsar wars aka keeping it implied in the books and confirming outside

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