If you like Star Wars, and if you have absolutely any compassion, you need to speak up against the colorism and racism in The Clone Wars and The Bad Batch.
I don’t care if you think “unwhitewashtbb” is incorrect about certain things. I don’t care who you like or don’t like in the fandom. This isn’t about supporting a singular individual and something they started. This isn’t about who you like or don’t like. This is beyond one person.
This is about supporting the fans of color. This is about supporting real life people. People who just want to see representation on screen, people who keep getting slapped in the face my mainstream media.
This is about Polynesian fans, who watch Clone Troopers, some of our only representation, be reduced to a Rambo ripoff. This is about watching our round features be erased and replaced by eurocentric standards. This is about Wrecker, Portrayed as the “strong dumb” Clone, looking the most Polynesian. This is about Tech, the smartest Clone, looking white.
This is about Black fans, who’s representation is drawn ashy and grey. Who have to sit and watch character designers disregard their skin and hair texture over and over and over. Who get told “well it’s hard to animate curly hair” or “darker tones are harder to render” whenever they point out the racism. Disney is a billion dollar company. They have the means. It’s not hard. It’s racism.
This is about Asian fans. Who had to relive racial trauma. Who watched as their only representation came in the form of Imperials. Murders. Who watched, as Fennec Shand was designed and animated to look nothing like Ming-Na Wen.
This is about Jewish fans. Who spend every week staring at a greedy lizard be voiced by a Jewish woman, who cares about nothing but money.
It’s about Muslim fans. Who had an entire race based on them. Only for their main representation, a Jedi healer, become a terrorist
This movement isn’t about you. It has nothing to do with who you hate or who you like.
It’s about all the fans of color out there, who feel defeated, degraded, mocked. Who feel ugly in their identity, because they have been tossed aside for so long. Who wanted to be Jedi when they grew up, but now they can’t even image a world without racism.
Fans who feel ignored. And alone.
It’s about standing up for them.
It’s about standing with them.
So say something. Do something.
Tweet about it. Post about it. Write essays. Email LucasArts and Disney. Support fans of color.
It’s not about a hashtag.
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