#technical godwin

like buddy. pal. let me let you in on a secret. you can find a lifestyle unappealing without that lifestyle being bad (never mind ‘actively harmful’). a lifestyle can be a bad fit for certain personality types or whatever without that lifestyle being inherently and irreperably unsalvageable for anyone ever. there are allowed to be things that you simply do not vibe with. there is no such thing as One Size Fits All, particularly when it comes to religion and philosophy and religious practice.

‘but why doesn’t that attitude then apply to the sith’ because the sith lifestyle is actively harmful! by design! because its philosophy is quite literally that of adolf hitler! there is nothing to be salvaged from ethnonationalists, from fascists!

(and, honestly. as pseudo-monastic traditions go, the jedi are incredibly open/of the world. there are few if any truly closed traditions that we see, either in the movies or in the EU. never mind fuckin. actual hermits living in the kashyyk shadowlands up mountains.)

fundamentally if ‘the whole fandom hates me’ because i don’t have much truck with racists or transphobes (or lesbophobes or biphobes or ablists or abuse apologists or) then uh i take that as a compliment! thanks bud, by mine enemies shall i be judged and here? i seem to be doing okay

‘some people who think that actual literal h-tler had empowering philosophies if you ignore the fact they were those of actual literal h-tler, don’t like me on the internet’ oh no!! how ever shall i cope!! jeeves, fetch the fainting couch!!!

I’m Jewish, dealt with anti-semitism, and I vibe with the Sith code. It wasn’t written by Nazis, it’s just fictional, and it’s pretty broad and easy to take what you want from it. I think it’s a big and unfair stretch to call people Hitler supporters for liking a fictional wizard society motto 

it wasn’t written by n-zis, no, it was written by david gaider, who has gone on the record to say that the sith’s philosophy as expanded on in kotor and which has since been folded into the larger eu was in parts based on mein kampf

So, yeah. That’s where the Code of the Sith came from (reverse the Jedi Code— done!). And the Sith philosophy (at least what I wrote of it for Korriban) was inspired by Mein Kampf at least in parts (which made the forumites who talked about how awesome it was, and how it made sense, one part hilarious and one part frightening).

it feels like a strange thing to complain about but not a one of sith fandom have an original thought between them. i have been seeing the same shitty low effort ‘fash philosophy good actually’ for the last (checks k1′s release date) seventeen years and let me tell you that horse is not so much dead as fossilising

and yeah maybe if i was less mad and less confrontational and more polite and smiled and didnt call them names i might get through to one or two of them but again, i’ve been seeing these shitty cold ass takes for nearly seventeen whole ass years and let me tell you i got tired of trying to explain why adolf hitler’s own personal philosophical musings counted as Bad Ideas about minus six months in

so i scream and i rant and hurl expletives and i go on long passive aggressive vagueblogging tirades and people not inclined to listen to me block me because i’m a big ol meanie pooper and people who just came here for the shitty puns wait a couple of days and then quietly unfollow and the universe ticks over as it always has done

even the Death Watch, the ‘true mandalorians’, are no exception to this. (almost?) every other human settlement we see has more variation in its makeup. it’s sinister, in the same manner as the hugo boss uniforms of the Empire - and all the more so for the proof that it is the result of ‘exile’ of ‘violent segments of society’, of a violence on the part of satine and her supporters that doesn’t make for such appealing massmarket media but which is violence of a kind, none the less.

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it’s also weird as shit, to me, to come into tcw and suddenly mandalorians are all aryan. i’ve always been incredibly Casual when it comes to ce star war, but to me, ‘mandalorian’ was always inescapably tied to boba fett - who, it was revealed in the pt, is a man of colour. my first thought, at the word ‘mandalorian’, isn’t the aryan asshole up there, or the other aryan asshole on mandalore’s throne, or any other white blond blue-eyed twit the narrative tries to tell me is mandalorian. it’s boba, and his father, jango. mandalorians, to me, were never white. seeing almost-retconned like this is... weird.

As a huge fan of old republic era sith, I’m offended �� but in the Disney reality of CW, Crylo Ren and Revan forcefully turned into a white dudebro , I’m afraid I have to agree...

listen i am sith trash of the highest order but you gotta admit that even/especially with tor!sith, the prototypical Sith Fan(TM) is a white probably dudebro, probably also a neckbeard athiest, who carries on at length about how the jedi are like, the real villains and how they’re like, so much more intelligent than the rest of the fanbase for realising this, all while worshipping the hugo boss aesthetic of both the tor empire and ot empire (and hugo boss jr look of the FO) and carrying on about how boilerplate facism is like, totally empowering

oh lol. yeah i’ve seen claims like that before and like.

okay, i’m also white, so take my onion as you will, but honestly that argument makes me lol incredibly fucking hard, not least because my biggest other option is to screm.

trying to argue that red sith are oppressed!!!!!1 is

well one gets exactly nowhere before one starts regurgitating white supremacist nonsense with a star war flavouring. if red sith are anything-coded they are aryans, with korriban as their thule. people in the empire (and in fandom, for that matter) who buy into their nonsense about genetic superiority and/or oppression are, well, idiots by and large but also coming out with the same crap that st-rmfront and the like buy into. doubly so if they turn around and start crying about how sith are oppressed.

like. yeah. they were conquered and colonised by the jen’jidai. over three thousand years ago, at the beginning of swtor. it was a long ass time ago. i (a welsh person, whose own language and culture has been on the wrong end of multiple colonisers - the romans, the vikings, the english, mostly the fucking english) might as well still be complaining about the conquest of the romans, and it’d still be more recent than that of the sith.

the sith, by the time of swtor era? they’re not victims, and they’re not oppressed, by even the longest of shots. they’re the ones who do the oppressing. they’d be the equivalent of modern italian facists who use the burning of rome to justify their own racism. (nb: do not know if such a position in italian politics exists, and frankly do not wish to).

there are aliens in swtor and star war generally who are minority-coded. the twi’leks, the evocii, the sand people, jawas, iridonians/zabrak. but the sith? ain’t one of them.