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Jaicee said:

Pretty sure I was complaining about hypocrisy on the part of the filmmakers that I observed as an individual, not trying to organize a political boycott movement or anything like that.

Yeah, there are many reasons why I dislike The Rise of Skywalker: some of them are aesthetic and some of them are political. That isn't the same thing as organizing a movement to try and prevent everyone else who might like this film from seeing it by getting anything comparable cancelled in the production stages and the leading people (okay mostly just the women specifically) associated with it fired and socially cancelled. Just because I don't like this movie doesn't mean you can't. It's the participation in cancel culture that I don't like about the #StarWarsFans.

I mean aren't these conservative people the same ones who otherwise go around complaining about liberal censorship of free speech all the time? Live by your own standards! You can dislike something without trying to actively prohibit me from seeing it.

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Concerning the whole representation issue you raise, I don't know. I mean you could go all the way back to the early 1930s and find Western movies like Madchen in Uniform, for example, providing quite positive and at the time legitimately groundbreaking representation for lesbians in the popular, relatively new medium of film. It's potential to change public opinion was taken seriously enough by the subsequent Third Reich that they first censored it and then banned it outright and ordered all copies destroyed (most of which, in fact, were). If film or other artistic mediums have no potential to change the world, then why do repressive governments, as in this example, so often see them as threats of a magnitude that merits prohibition in the first place?

I remember you claiming I was biased and insinuating that I'm sexist/racist/whatever after trying to show that TLJ isn't widely hated for the reasons you imagine. Are there Star Wars fans that hate it for political reasons, sure but they are just a tiny minority. That you'd believe I hate it for such reasons despite what I said tells me you think anyone who doesn't like the movie only does so because they're racist/sexist/whatever. It'd be like if I said anyone who doesn't like TROS only hates because of the way Rey and Kylo's romance turned out, lumping you in with the crazy Reylo fans making death threats and demanding Kylo's actor divorce his wife.

Because they're corrupt petty and stupid. Is Winnie the Pooh a threat, that China banned him because he could single-handedly topple their regime? lol no. Two people loving each other that happen to be the same sex is similarly no threat, it effects absolutely nothing. It's just banned because ego and immaturity. That it's not an issue is the whole reason it shouldn't be outlawed. Actual threats would be strikes boycotts and protest, actions that involve real people putting their livelihoods on the line.