It didn't need much explaining in the original trilogy because everyone more or less remembered the Nazis, and the Empire was heavily coded as space Nazis. it's just gotten muddier over time because liberals are doing liberal shit.
we can project the same imperialist racism onto them that historical empires have displayed, but this isn’t actually ever shown onscreen, and it’s not explicitly stated in the movies that they’re human-supremacist or something.
It's implied. In the OT you never see any imperials that aren't white men. And they're dressed like Nazis. So the audience could pretty much just figure that part out.
Their helmets look like skulls and their boss is a literal Dark Knight. Whereas the good guy wizard is a nice old man who tells people to believe in themselves.
It didn't need much explaining in the original trilogy because everyone more or less remembered the Nazis, and the Empire was heavily coded as space Nazis. it's just gotten muddier over time because liberals are doing liberal shit.
It's implied. In the OT you never see any imperials that aren't white men. And they're dressed like Nazis. So the audience could pretty much just figure that part out.
Also their troops are called stormtroopers
Their helmets look like skulls and their boss is a literal Dark Knight. Whereas the good guy wizard is a nice old man who tells people to believe in themselves.
Okay, but the think of all the merchandising opportunities around the space nazis.