Context: Star Wars has recently come out with a new show, The Acolyte, that has bitterly divided the fandom. It had received an extremely poor audience Rotten Tomatoes score before it even came out, actors from it have been harassed, and has been the subject of numerous extremely negative Youtube videos mostly from those on the right and far right. A post is made on /r/prequelmemes claiming that Lucas would not be a fan of the modern fandom due to his left wing beliefs, and argument ensues. How much of the criticism is in good faith? Is Disney Star Wars pushing politics? Is the Acolyte actually bad? Is the Star Wars fandom toxic?
Some commenters think Lucas' politics are obviously left wing:
Andor is my communist manifesto
Others debate if any criticism of The Acolyte and Disney Star Wars in general is being construed as bigotry:
yea good move from disney to call all of his fan base racist and sexist just genius
Disney has to blame something for the crap products they push these days though.
Just call everyone a Nazi and go home already.
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They all lack of media literacy smh
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And history
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you don't have to be factually right as long as you're morally correct
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Someone going to tell these guys
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Many temptations fall to the jedi
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Jesus christ these people are dumb.
The absolute peak reddit wingcuck brain has to be the guy saying the prequels are a commentary on the GWOT, to be then told that 2/3 came out before 9/11, and still being upmarseyd and trying to justify it with the first gulf war and deflecting the discussion to semantics.
This is the person that wrote phantom menace, and "this is how democracy dies... with thunderous applause". The idea that this person is capable of political commentary less ham-fisted than SS-uniform wearing baddies, is hilarious.
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If Star Wars wasn't about fighting Saddam how do you explain this !historychads
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Apparently the notorious horrorcow and male feminist Uday thought that making uniforms based on le heckin bad guise from star wars
would have made the Americans scared shitless by the Fedayeen, but it had the opposite effect and the amerimutts thought that they looked like a bunch of autismo cosplayer r-slurs 
!historychads
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The complete lack or body armour helped too
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Didn't George Lucas say that his plan for the New Republic in his original Sequel Trilogy was to be based off of Post-2003 Iraq?
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Throwing jedi off the roof probably isnt as effective as it is with gays, though
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Lmao i guess they forgot that helmets were supposed to be for protection
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Lucas' politics are Jews, action figurines, and very repressed perversion with some possible pedophilia.
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I would say barely concealed raging pedophilia
Reminder there was an amazing child actor that auditioned for Anakin who looked just like the concept art and even sort of looked like a young Hayden Christensen. He knocked his audition out of the park and everyone was dead set on casting him except Lucas, who said "some people just audition well" because he had a weird fixation on the more littleboyish mop headed Jake Lloyd. His audition sucked but Lucas insisted it had to be him, for reasons unknown (he wanted to frick him)
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Why do you know so much about child actors?
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It was me. I was the child actor and George Lucas didn't want to frick me
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I will pray
for your deliverance 
from evil 
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I thought that was because they wanted to cast Leonardo Decaprio as Anakin, and chose an actor that looked like him.
The more suspect thing is that in early drafts of Indiana Jones George Lucas thought it would be "funny" have to Indiana have an ex who is like 14 and the joke is basically that he fricked a child
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His relationship with short round is also kind of sus.
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Which actor was that?
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I think it was this guy, Devon Michael:
It's more detailed in whatever that making of the prequels documentary was
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And then Lloyd complained decades later that other kids made fun of him which never made sense to me. Little kids loved that movie, and his classmates must have been thrilled to go to school with a movie star.
I'm not calling him a liar, but he's a liar. His life and career fell apart not because of mockery from his peers, but because he sucks.
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Dont forget the most important policy
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Exactly. Star Wars is making less money than it could be making, so if George Lucas still had a financial stake in the franchise, he would hate it. Simple as that.
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Nick Mullen Redpilled me on Steven Spielberg's sus behavior
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episode 1 came out before 9/11 and even before bush was elected but its a commentary on the iraq invasion?
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Yes, it is because it's a visionary work of art, you stupid loli chud.
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Go cry about it on reddit, ya queer.
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Nobody in the fandom wanted a soap opera show which spends most of it's time on weird political preaching.
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Holy shit what a stupid fricking r-slur who probably wasn't even alive when the prequel movies were released.
Kill all redditors.
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Cute twink doesn't even realize that jfk started the ruin that was Vietnam and Warhawk leftoid johnson exacerbated it and Nixon wanted out.
Also no one in any political side wanted Vietnam. It was all personal shit and macnamarans and everyone wanted troops home but for different reasons.
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The Vietnam thing was Lucas trying to cope that his fun late 70s action romps didn't have deeper meaning.
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Yeah, he didn't want to admit that he was just doing Buck Rogers with better special effects. Which is too bad, because Buck Rogers is awesome and it deserved better special effects.
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It's just a shitty made show made by someone with no care or connection with the old stuff and with a strong lesbian agenda that's all there is to it.
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Am I
for thinking this is being stirred up by shills and bots? Even the redditors seem to be getting sick of all criticism being lumped together as anti-woke.
Also there's this: https://old.reddit.com/r/saltierthankrayt/comments/1dd0j3i/10_years_later_the_newest_star_wars_show_has/
Two copy-pasted comments both nigh identical to each other. Both pushing the idea that everything at Disney is going great and any criticism comes from chuds.
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This is because The Acolyte, like The Marvels sequel, was a new peak of awful non entertainment where people who previous pushed back, and were already finding it increasingly hard to defend it, realized that it really is just total garbage now
You can only pretend the parasite isn't consuming the host for so long and pretend those two things (quality/woke) are disconnected phenomena until “let's hire women and minorities” is the entire shows pitch
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RIP George Lucas, didn't know he died. !kino
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Pretty sure he's been dead since the early 90s.
There's no way he would have allowed that terrible Star Wars prequel trilogy to be made if he were still alive.
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lucas would hate modern star wars (not enough cuts masked by some strange alien creature walking across the frame or cgi musical numbers)
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All of those things are SOVL
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Yeah, but one of those malformed, sickly souls. Like the chinese, or women.
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Imagine being so mind broken that you cant even watch entertainment movies anymore without seeing some nonexistent message in them
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You should see Reddit discourse on Apocalypse now, half the people argue it's a hardcore anti war movie and others sperg that there was no obvious message, neither viets or Americans were humanized, so therefore it's the most pro war film ever
https://old.reddit.com/r/criterion/comments/10fy5gg/what_are_this_subs_thoughts_on_apocalypse_now_and/
IRL the real story was a version of Heart of Darkness, where you descend further into the jungle, going back in time and losing all humanity/civilization until it's just raw savagery. That's too deep and literary for The Message r-slurs who want it reduced to current thing and America bad
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just play far cry 2 lmao
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editing guns into walkie-talkies, hmmmm
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Imagine watching space capeshit
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Ah yes the series where religious fundamentalism and an innate need to own guns in the stand against big government is super left wing. Plus this is a billionaire here, half of the rebellion chugs along because of "good" corporations.
Sure it's anti fascist but if starwars had a chosen ideology it's 1980's Reaganism to absurd levels.
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if it came out today you would get called a right winger if you like vader
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If you find yourself comparing politics to s*x you should neck yourself, because you're clearly doing both wrong.
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I can understand why a young person today wouldn't read between the lines on the OT's commentary on the Vietnam War or Nixon, but how these people completely miss that the Prequels are a commentary on the Invasion of Afghanistan/Iraq, Newt Gingrich and the Republican Party, Neoliberalism and Corporate Interests/Lobbying is beyond me. It's so blatant.:
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Andor is my communist manifesto:
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yea good move from disney to call all of his fan base racist and sexist just genius:
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Ok, but the criticism of Disney's Star Wars isn't just coming from the right, it's not even political at all. Something that sucks, can simply suck because it sucks.:
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Disney has to blame something for the crap products they push these days though.:
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Just call everyone a Nazi and go home already.:
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Disney intentionally stokes the weirdos and isnt really helping the situation. yeah its fricking ret*rded some fans step over board but the best you can do is ignore them. dont feed the troll use to be the standard on the internet. now they purposefully feed them and they grow more empowered and get a bunch of attention now. also disneys starwars is dead. at least to me.:
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