RogueIce wrote:So yeah. Aside from a couple of isolated incidents and some demographics that the Rebels themselves were pretty damn guilty of for two-thirds of the trilogy, where did this whole anti-alien and anti-women thing come from with the Empire? Note they can still be pretty damn evil without racism/specism/sexism what with the whole blowing up inhabited planets to make a point and nobody blinked an eye at it thing. So questioning this is hardly Imperial apologism.
From idiot writers at WEG?
I mean, this was the company that told GM to take away your character sheet if you were sympathetic to the Empire. They also invented the minimalist fleets and dumb backgrounds for Kashyyk and Mon Calamari (single planets overthrowing imperial occupation on their own? when both were far more vulnerable to reprisals than any other planet? seriously?).
Thanas wrote:So wait, the Empire is multiracial but nowhere do any aliens pop up? There is not one alien among the moffs (who are supposed to be analogous to governers).
Where exactly do we see any Moffs except for 2 guys commanding Death Stars?
There is not one alien in Palpatine's entourage in ROTJ. There is not one alien serving on the death star or in the Navy.
You can use the same argument against rebellion. Where are aliens on Yavin or Hoth? Where are alien pilots at Endor? Why alien rebellion members are even rarer than women in a movie made in 70s?
There is also the fact you
can't say anything about Empire with certainty. Who do we see in the movies? Bridge officers of Death Stars and Executor. These are presumably the harshest background check positions in the galaxy - they would say nothing about general population.
Only observing regular troopers would tell us that... Oh, wait, every single stormtrooper, vehicle operator, turbolaser gunner, or TIE pilot in the movies wears helmet. For all we know, half of them could have been aliens, and there would be no way to tell.
In all nations in the past without implicit racism there have been minorities in power or at least in the entourages of the person in power. Heck, even where racism existed (like in Great Britain) black people still managed to serve in the Royal Navy. In a galaxy where humans are just one race of many (albeit possible the majority) it is just ridiculous not to have a single one present in all the scenes that are shown on film except if there is a real policy to keep them out.
Imagine you're making a movie about Napoleonic Wars or Crimean War. How many minorities exactly you could show at say Battle of Trafalgar or at Austerlitz? In Charge of the Light Brigade? How many Russian officers at Borodino or Sevastopol were minorities?
