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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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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