george lucas literally set up return of the jedi to be an allegory of/protest against the Vietnam War
revenge of the sith
was so anti-Bush (Anakin even paraphrases a Bush line at one point) that people boycotted it
emperor palpatine was very deliberately based on Nixon
lucas later went on to compare Bush to Darth Vader and Dick Cheney to Palpatine, plus he’ll talk at any given opportunity about how political he wanted the prequels to be
but please, keep talking about how ‘the sjws’ have ‘destroyed star wars’ by bringing politics into it
Y’know, back when Tagviewer worked (it no longer does for some reason) I was reading the tags people had left on this and one of them was #I don’t believe this #he’s not that smart
Which obviously bugs me on a few levels (it’s…right in front of you) but primarily it bugs me because you don’t have to be smart to hold opinions on what you believe to be right and wrong? Yes, this harks back to those posts I reblogged/made the other day about comprehension and progressiveness, but…
You don’t have to be ‘smart’ to dislike war, or to dislike corrupt politicians. Why does everyone think that to have any sort of social justice leanings, intelligence (rather than some basic level of morals) is what’s required?