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It is something that has been bothering me for the longest of times; what is it about Star Wars that I am uneasy about? It is a collection of simple, yet entertaining films and has strong elements of right and wrong. Yet there is a more sinister overtone to the proceedings. The blatant racism that is portrayed in the movies.
The prosecution may address the court.
Well your honour, let’s have a look at the characters in the films. Firstly we have the goodies, not the actual Goodies as Bill Odie’s character Darth Beardy Weirdy was cut from the first film, no the good guys, the white guys. It is true Han, Luke, Leia, and Old Ben Kenobi are whities. The only black character of any repute, Lando, is portrayed as Judas scum. So he’s not really as good as the white man. Chewie is brown and perpetually angry, whilst the Ewoks are simply an appalling stereotype of Asian Indians. Just listen to them speak.
Even the Droids are symbolic of Western superiority. Love him or hate him, no just hate him, C3PO is Lucas’ slight at the yellow skinned Japanese. The droid is a far superior model to R2D2 (the good ‘ol American model, functional, chunky though it’s white damn it) but C3PO is oh so camp. It is George’s way of insulting the sexuality of a whole nation. And it demonstrates that Star Wars is also homophobic. In fact if you were to compress every uttering R2D2 makes from Star Wars to Jedi into one continuous sound file, and then play it backwards you can hear “this ones for bleep blop bloop Pearl Harbour”. It is no co-incidence that Yoda is green and not very popular, George is having a go at oldies too.
What about the bad guys? Well the character Darth Vader is perhaps the most obvious racist creation I’ve ever seen. Get this, he starts of as a white man, who may be petulant and stuff but he’s basically a good guy. His mentor however is one Kenobi (note the cloak with hood being a brown version of the KKK costume-subversive retro racialism) and the Emperor is another cloaked wizard. So anyway he starts off white and then when he becomes bad, he becomes black. Thus he is now Darth Vader, a white guy being repressed by someone who ain’t from round here, isn’t that right George? His voice is provided by a black man, so that even Vader’s views aren’t spoken by the white man.
Anyway when he is bad (though ironically he has to still take orders from a white wizard-ironic) he orders around a bunch of white (Nazi) Stormtroopers, who are in fact, as we know from Clones; Jango Fett’s cloned self. So George is trying to suggest how the whites are surpressing the ethnic minorities, who are simply a bunch of mercenaries and bounty hunters anyway. It cannot be coincidence that the Fett’s ships are called Slave 1 and Slave 2 respectively. In fact while we are on the subject of ships the bad guys fly around in Tie-fighters, which George wanted to call Thai-fighters, in a subtle reference to the Vietnam war, in which Thailand was, for the entire conflict situated next to Cambodia. As we all know some of the fighting was carried out in Cambodia. The last I knew, Thailand is still located in the same place.
At the end of Jedi, Vader becomes good again (as he sneakily throws his wizard friend down that escape chute) which means he now becomes white again and wins a place in force heaven. Lucas you make me sick.
Jabba's inclusion as a fat thing, was George's way of ensuring that he hadn't missed any race, gender or type of person out of his hatefull films.
So you may be thinking that this post is ill informed and the evidence presented is merely circumstantial. Well I’ve saved the best for last. George created the most hated character to ever grace the cinema screen, one so vehemently despised that the very mention of his name is banned in every state in America. The rastafarian Gungan, Jar-jar Binks with stupid p*ss taking voice, massa.
I rest my case.
It is something that has been bothering me for the longest of times; what is it about Star Wars that I am uneasy about? It is a collection of simple, yet entertaining films and has strong elements of right and wrong. Yet there is a more sinister overtone to the proceedings. The blatant racism that is portrayed in the movies.
The prosecution may address the court.
Well your honour, let’s have a look at the characters in the films. Firstly we have the goodies, not the actual Goodies as Bill Odie’s character Darth Beardy Weirdy was cut from the first film, no the good guys, the white guys. It is true Han, Luke, Leia, and Old Ben Kenobi are whities. The only black character of any repute, Lando, is portrayed as Judas scum. So he’s not really as good as the white man. Chewie is brown and perpetually angry, whilst the Ewoks are simply an appalling stereotype of Asian Indians. Just listen to them speak.
Even the Droids are symbolic of Western superiority. Love him or hate him, no just hate him, C3PO is Lucas’ slight at the yellow skinned Japanese. The droid is a far superior model to R2D2 (the good ‘ol American model, functional, chunky though it’s white damn it) but C3PO is oh so camp. It is George’s way of insulting the sexuality of a whole nation. And it demonstrates that Star Wars is also homophobic. In fact if you were to compress every uttering R2D2 makes from Star Wars to Jedi into one continuous sound file, and then play it backwards you can hear “this ones for bleep blop bloop Pearl Harbour”. It is no co-incidence that Yoda is green and not very popular, George is having a go at oldies too.
What about the bad guys? Well the character Darth Vader is perhaps the most obvious racist creation I’ve ever seen. Get this, he starts of as a white man, who may be petulant and stuff but he’s basically a good guy. His mentor however is one Kenobi (note the cloak with hood being a brown version of the KKK costume-subversive retro racialism) and the Emperor is another cloaked wizard. So anyway he starts off white and then when he becomes bad, he becomes black. Thus he is now Darth Vader, a white guy being repressed by someone who ain’t from round here, isn’t that right George? His voice is provided by a black man, so that even Vader’s views aren’t spoken by the white man.
Anyway when he is bad (though ironically he has to still take orders from a white wizard-ironic) he orders around a bunch of white (Nazi) Stormtroopers, who are in fact, as we know from Clones; Jango Fett’s cloned self. So George is trying to suggest how the whites are surpressing the ethnic minorities, who are simply a bunch of mercenaries and bounty hunters anyway. It cannot be coincidence that the Fett’s ships are called Slave 1 and Slave 2 respectively. In fact while we are on the subject of ships the bad guys fly around in Tie-fighters, which George wanted to call Thai-fighters, in a subtle reference to the Vietnam war, in which Thailand was, for the entire conflict situated next to Cambodia. As we all know some of the fighting was carried out in Cambodia. The last I knew, Thailand is still located in the same place.
At the end of Jedi, Vader becomes good again (as he sneakily throws his wizard friend down that escape chute) which means he now becomes white again and wins a place in force heaven. Lucas you make me sick.
Jabba's inclusion as a fat thing, was George's way of ensuring that he hadn't missed any race, gender or type of person out of his hatefull films.
So you may be thinking that this post is ill informed and the evidence presented is merely circumstantial. Well I’ve saved the best for last. George created the most hated character to ever grace the cinema screen, one so vehemently despised that the very mention of his name is banned in every state in America. The rastafarian Gungan, Jar-jar Binks with stupid p*ss taking voice, massa.
I rest my case.
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Stryke wrote:
> What's a Nubian?
FROM ENCARTA:
''Nubia, region, north-eastern Africa, roughly occupying both sides of the Nile valley between Aswan, Egypt, and Khartoum, Sudan. The area of the region in north-eastern Sudan is called the Nubian Desert. In ancient times Nubia was called Cush and ruled by Egypt for some 1,800 years (see Cushite Kingdoms). In the 8th century bc the Nubians achieved independence and subjugated Egypt. After maintaining some degree of independence for more than 2,000 years, Nubia was conquered by the Arabs in the 14th century and by Egypt in 1820. In the late 19th century the region was controlled by the Sudanese Muslim revolutionary leader known as the Mahdi.''
Microsoft® Encarta® Encyclopedia 2002. © 1993-2001 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Thus I guess a Nubian is someone to the south of Egypt. In Rise of Nations Nubians are a playable civilization with trade bonuses.
Or they are fat flying blue creatures named Watto, as Lucas would have us believe.
> What's a Nubian?
FROM ENCARTA:
''Nubia, region, north-eastern Africa, roughly occupying both sides of the Nile valley between Aswan, Egypt, and Khartoum, Sudan. The area of the region in north-eastern Sudan is called the Nubian Desert. In ancient times Nubia was called Cush and ruled by Egypt for some 1,800 years (see Cushite Kingdoms). In the 8th century bc the Nubians achieved independence and subjugated Egypt. After maintaining some degree of independence for more than 2,000 years, Nubia was conquered by the Arabs in the 14th century and by Egypt in 1820. In the late 19th century the region was controlled by the Sudanese Muslim revolutionary leader known as the Mahdi.''
Microsoft® Encarta® Encyclopedia 2002. © 1993-2001 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Thus I guess a Nubian is someone to the south of Egypt. In Rise of Nations Nubians are a playable civilization with trade bonuses.
Or they are fat flying blue creatures named Watto, as Lucas would have us believe.
And to top it al loff, Lucas lives on a ranch in Texas where he sacrifices black babies and burns crosses. It's true I read it in the...oh, hang on, someone's having a joke and posted the Daily Mail through this morning...
Blue? Actually, it's colourless and it only appears black because that is all the human eye can receive through the visible spectrum. Or something.
Mr Snuggly wrote:
> *stands up*
>
> Ah come on! That's a buncha hogwash!
Yeah well I'll tell you something for free mister, where do all these nasty aliens come from anyway? Space. And what colour is space?
> *stands up*
>
> Ah come on! That's a buncha hogwash!
Yeah well I'll tell you something for free mister, where do all these nasty aliens come from anyway? Space. And what colour is space?
*Blacklists and blackballs the Saggy One*
Hey, that's so un-PC!
*Lists and balls The Saggy One*
Hey, that's so un-PC!
*Lists and balls The Saggy One*
#### Lando Calrissian!
*stands up*
Ah come on! That's a buncha hogwash!
Ah come on! That's a buncha hogwash!
the_aoe_slaught wrote:
> The sagacious one wrote:
> Word count means nothing to me. Like I've said before, you can post
> 10000 words in a week but if all of them are crap, what's the point?
>
> Who said anyhting about word count?
I did. See above.
And ahem, I think I went off a bit half cocked (as always).
Sorry dude.
> The sagacious one wrote:
> Word count means nothing to me. Like I've said before, you can post
> 10000 words in a week but if all of them are crap, what's the point?
>
> Who said anyhting about word count?
I did. See above.
And ahem, I think I went off a bit half cocked (as always).
Sorry dude.
BLACK RAGE!!
Stryke wrote:
> What's a Nubian?
--
Heh.
"Well isn't that true?"
> What's a Nubian?
--
Heh.
"Well isn't that true?"
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