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Oh holy fucking shit George Lucas is included on this article, which includes child rapists (Polanski, Allen), literal Nazi sympathizers (Riefenstahl) and domestic abusers (Gibson). This is going to be awful, isn’t it. He’s one of my storytelling heroes and I’m going to have to recalibrate everything I think about Star Wars, everything I think about his politics –

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Oh right.

Of course. I forgot that people genuinely consider the Star Wars prequels to be as bad as literally raping an actual person, the teen whom Polanski got his claws into. How could I have been foolish enough to not realize that a man whose later work was arguably not as good his earlier work is on the same moral level as a woman who served as Hitler’s propagandist? Nicely done, article. You’ve certainly opened my eyes.

I wonder why Hollywood seems to have a problem with rape and sexual assault. The view that “making a bad movie” is as terrible a crime as drugging and raping a girl, or creating literal Nazi propaganda, or sexually abusing your daughter, or sexually and physically abusing your lead actress into a breakdown (these are just some of the other things detailed in the ‘horrible acts’ sections for the other directors) surely has nothing to do with it.

How fucking dare this article pretend even for a second that it cares about victims.