My absolute LEAST. FUCKING. FAVOURITE Star Wars discourse ever is “Well, Anakin and Shmi live in an acceptable house and have food and sometimes have free time, so how can they possibly be real slaves? Fuck these characters for claiming an oppression they don’t have/fuck Lucas for writing slavery as something not instantly recognizable on first glance.”
I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. What the hell sort of attitude must these people have towards real slaves if they think ‘being provided with a house and food’ discounts the dehumanization???!
#and….you know…it says RIGHT THERE IN THE MOVIE that slaves will be murdered if they ever try to leave #and it also says RIGHT THERE IN THERE IN THE MOVIE that anakin is forced to risk his life podracing against his mother’s wishes #(even though he likes doing it) #but SO MANY PEOPLE apparently just saw the (not even that great) house
Yeah, and we do see on screen the working conditions Anakin is forced into.
Honestly it’s weird how people take the tiniest things to mean everything’s alright, when usually it’s more practical than kind. Anakin and Shmi have a house and food, not because Watto is nice, but because he spent all that money on two slaves and that money would be wasted if they died due to exposure or starvation.
Yo that can’t REALLY be something that people are arguing about a white character in 2017
(Though that’s far from the first time I’ve seen it.)