#when you consider satine is one of only two characters to actually speak mando'a onscreen (the other being sabine) | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

stairset · 2 years ago

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Maybe it's just because of where I live, but the whole "Satine didn't like that her people were a bunch of warmongering imperialist assholes and told them to knock it off and implemented gun control and made the Jedi Torture Boxes illegal so that her people could rebuild and move on from their violent history of civil wars that reduced their planet into a nearly uninhabitable wasteland in favor of focusing on more productive things like art and education and this is literally cultural genocide and she's erasing history and she should've been a villain blah blah blah" take has always been so weird to me. Like I have absolutely seen people say things like that in real life all the time and about 90% of them have confederate flags on the back of their pickup trucks so. Yeah.

#''but the new mandos are mostly white in tcw!'' despite what many claim mandos were always mostly white even before tcw #i know people wanna act like they're The Single Most Diverse Culture In The Entire Galaxy but that was always largely an informed attribute #i mean star wars in general wasn't as diverse before the disney era that's why rebels and tcw season 7 have more non-white mandalorians #also the whole idea that she only took over cause of republic backing and made her people ''assimilate'' to republic culture #which first of all the republic doesn't have one culture it's made up thousands of planets with different cultures #contrary to popular belief the republic isn't really Space America it's more Space United Nations #and second of all her ENTIRE INTRODUCTORY ARC is about her being against republic overreach #and not wanting them to intervene in internal mandalorian affairs #but yeah clearly she's a puppet for the republic that's definitely consistent with what we actually see onscreen #and don't bother with the ''the republic glassed mandalore'' thing #that's legends and is never mentioned anywhere in tcw at all #as far as lucas and disney canon are concerned it's a wasteland because of centuries of civil wars #which sabine confirms in rebels #the whole erasing culture thing doesn't hold much weight either #when you consider satine is one of only two characters to actually speak mando'a onscreen (the other being sabine)#which. again. she did In Her Introductory Episode #and you can see mando'a writing all around new mandalore #in sharp contrast to the fanon idea that she suppressed the language or whatever #and like there's TONS of uniquely mandalorian artwork and architecture and stuff like that #those things are culture too she just focuses on the parts of the culture that aren't about killing people you don't like #also when pre vizsla starts his whole smear campaign against her and gains the favor of the people #she stands down because the people are on his side now #which shows she believes in the will of the people and thus it's safe to assume that the majority supported her favor when she took over #anyway i'm gonna go watch avatar and day zuko committed cultural genocide #cause imperialism is fire nation culture and he told them to knock it off #shut up tristan

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