When George Lucas- as I understand it - created Star Wars, he intended it to be Massively political.
One of his criticisms (of the US, I would imagine) was that the military was designed to put 'brown' people on the front line. ie, the US was being racist / protecting its white population. So in the production, the Storm Troopers of the Empire are all Hispanic...
Again, correct me if I am wrong.
Now, look at things:
The Left demonizes 'whiteness' all over the map.
They are forcing 'white supremacists' out of the military. To what extent this is happening, I do not currently know.
Who does that leave to put on the front lines? 'brown' and 'black' people.
I have to imagine the military is still primarily white, of course.
But Good God. Was Lucas actually thinking of the Dem / Left / Socialist racists, when he was writing his scripts?
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…Wut? That’s the first time I heard that Lucas intended the Empire’s Stormtroopers to be hispanic… Or rather, “space hispanic” if you want to go there.
Still, I agree on one thing; there is a heavy political message in SW; especially the Prequels. But it’s obviously supposed to warn AGAINST political corruption, dictatorships, & race supremacy and all such things… I mean, the tyrannical, corrupt, autocratic, Nazi-esque, & human-supremacist Empire are without a doubt the BAD GUYS!
Also, fun fact, for all their flaws and bigotry, at least the Galactic Empire does NOT discriminate against gender or sexual orientation.
In the first 3 SW movies made, we never saw a stormtrooper out of their white armor. Race didn't enter into it.
The clone troops were copies of one excellent soldier who happened to look Hispanic. If anything, the message was that Hispanics were supremely badass.
@AlpacaLynn #115664
Yeah pretty much, but clearly this guy has no idea what the fuck he's talking about and honestly not a "fan" of the series of he's fucking up this badly about some of the most basic background of some of the concepts George put into his stories and for what? To try and own the libs... Christ I hate folks like this...
The Empire had all those Stormtroopers: they ultimately availed Palpatine naught.
The Resistance had one X-Wing pilot.
I guess it's Oscar Isaac who not only proves Palpatine wrong, eh OP...?!
Even before Disney had any interest in "Star Wars", Lucas's creation follows theirs: Good overcomes Evil.
And Diversity overcomes Bigotry.
Finn. Rose. The other races that were part of the Rebel Alliance/Resistance...!
“Who does that leave to put on the front lines? 'brown' and 'black' people.”
Speaking only as a white man who spent 20 years in the military, it would have left me. I’m white, but not white supremacist. They’re kicking out bigots, not kicking out whites DUE TO bigotry.
One of his criticisms (of the US, I would imagine) was that the military was designed to put 'brown' people on the front line. ie, the US was being racist / protecting its white population. So in the production, the Storm Troopers of the Empire are all Hispanic...
Again, correct me if I am wrong.
You're wrong. But...
This could actually be a plausible interpretation of the Republic's clone army (that was also the Empire's clone army for a little while), aside from the error in thinking that Jango Fett was Hispanic. The great, glorious, liberal democratic free society that was the Galactic Republic is supposed to represent a long lost golden age before darkness consumed the Galaxy. But, when the peace is threatened by the separatist rebellion, what do they do? They could have built their own battle droids. They could have built an army from enlistees and/or conscripts drawn from the citizens of the Republic. But, no, they decide to literally manufacture a disposable underclass to use as slave soldiers. Of course, slavery is supposed to be illegal, but I guess clones don't count, because most of the senators don't want to have to ask the public to make any any sacrifices (that won't poll well). The people go along with it, because clones aren't *really* people or something and life is easy far from the front lines. Even the Jedi go along with it for some reason. I feel like the Republic had lot of problems even before Palpatine came in and made things worse.
@Spacewyrm #115688
I feel like the Republic had lot of problems even before Palpatine came in and made things worse.
Wasn’t it already established in Phantom Menace that the Republic was only a shadow of its former self? With sheer bureaucracy and corruption preventing anything from getting done. Granted, Palpatine was the one who gave a few, last big pushes to make the entire thing fall down completely, but I doubt he would have succeeded in his plans if the Republic was still in its golden age.
Its part of the reason why Palpatine managed to sell the Empire so well in the beginning; both the fear of the Clone Wars and the corruption in the Senate had the citizens desparate for any change at all. The Empire promised and delivered said change; unfortunatly it wasn’t change for the better.
Anyway, say what you want about the Prequels, but all-in-all I think that Star Wars gave a really interesting and well-conveyed message.
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