One term for Genocide Joe
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-administration-actions-combat-antisemitism-college-campuses-rcna122712
The White House will also highlight how the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights has expedited an update of its complaint form. For the first time, it will make it clear that Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits certain forms of antisemitism and Islamophobia.
Said before and I'll say again: the biggest "mistake" of the prequels is that they lost track of the fact that people don't care about the events of the story, they care about how it impacts the characters. Everything about the setup of the prequels is great but the missing element is that its still not clear to a lot of people watching the story that the republic didn't turn fascist overnight: it was already fascist before episode 3 ever even happens. The main characters just hadn't quite realized that they were already the empire in everything but name.
Libs didn't recognize it as fascist until Palpatine defenestrated Windu, had Anakin kill everyone, and then gave a speech proclaiming himself emperor
Even though he functionally already had almost all of that power, it needed to be accompanied by some really obvious nonsense to be truly 'fascist' to them
I'm a diehard Lucas apologist...but also a diehard tweaker and editor of movies and I unironically think the biggest missed opportunity of some of the prequels was how they could have really leaned into a dissection/commentary on the original films transparent black and white aesthetics of good and evil.
Like: at the end of attack of the clones there's a small reprise and hint of the Imperial march and I absolutely get why its there...but I still believe it was the wrong choice. I wish they had played it more like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TouCl6yp13A
Cause yay! The troops are off to war to stop the evil insurrectionists!
Now, especially living in america, I think its kind of amazing how much people can only start to recognize fascism when the aesthetics of fascism start to take hold.
I keep saying that if the US had someone like Salazar appear, his main obsticle to power would be seeming too much like a moderate Dem lanyard.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
When I'm comrade general secretary of the United Earth Soviet Republic, everyone who's ever had anything to with the 501st Legion is getting gulag'd. People who fetishize the Galactic Empire aesthetic worry me.
I love jerkoff loser cop in Andor so much as a character for exactly this reason. He is just such a brilliant way to shit on people who have a stormtrooper fantasy.
Completely unrelated but I also really liked that actor in Poldark
Saw a guy at the gym with the Empire's logo tattooed on his leg. My
nearly overheated.