There is no contradiction when you know about the "Aryan Jesus" theory which also probably drew some inspiration from the old Marcionist heresy (technically not an heresy when it was created but a legitimate stream of christianism, became an heresy when the catholics won) that holds that the Old Testament God is a…

The Nazi ideology was firmly anti-Christian, as the Bible was a Jewish invention. They were not overtly anti-Christians in practice because the masses were Christians and they needed them but you can imagine that if they won the war they would have have no more need for the double play.

One change: declare the prequels are just part of the cancelled EU. Make a single prequel movie about the story of Anakin as a Jedi who falls from grace because he is tempted by the power of the Dark Force. Just power. And because he maybe was not such a good guy to begin with, just a regular guy. Make the Jedis…

The scene was a critique of the "consent" concept itself. You do not need "consent" to know rape is wrong. And you do not need a girl saying "yes we'll have sex" to know she wants to have sex. In fact that's the best way not to have sex at all. The real consent is not in the words but in many other signs and behaviors…

Fantastic episode and clearly the best SP season in a long time maybe ever. It should be mandatory viewing.

I absolutely not agree with you about the prequels but I liked your essay and think it was honest and interesting. But not convincing enough.

Disrespectful ? Who cares about respecting racists like you ?
Ethnicity and nationality are build upon centuries of shared culture and history (and, in many cases, ancestry even if this is not very important). That's not a "social construct". The social construct is that this is a social construct.

By the way, the order to watch the prequels is / 4, 5, 2, 3, 6. Just skip 1. Or just skip all the prequels.

I agree. I think all the lightsaber fights, including Darth Maul, were bad. They look too much choreographed, not real, not menacing at all.

Yes maintaining a sense of identity based on skin color is racist. Skin color is nothing, has no meaning and no importance. Race is irrelevant. Ethnicity and Nations and culture are relevant. You are indeed a racist.

Are you trolling us ? Seriously ? Another article about how the prequels are not so bad ? They are. And even if I agree that ROTJ is the worst of the OT, it is still far better than any of the prequel movies.

I love people like you who represent nothing but claim to be speaking for "112 million people".
"White" means nothing. Do you think a Spaniard, a Norwegian, an Arab, A Turk, An Iranian etc are the same. "People of Color" means nothing either way. Blacks and "brown" and "Latinos" do not see themselves as a group and…

"an originally White character being played by a person of color isn't the same thing as a a non-white character being whitewashed."

Look, I have a good understanding of Egyptian history, and you are clearly pushing a very specific weird agenda about "Africa" (a concept that did not exist then). Ancient Egyptians were not blacks, like it or not. They were not white europeans neither.

So, exactly like Egyptian Gods.

They did not look Europeans, and even less north europeans, but Nordic Gods did not look like Idris Elba either and nobody cared and nobody should care. This is stupid fucking movie. The fact is - nobody probably looks like the ancient egyptians used to. The closest are the Copts I guess but themselves are the…

Absolutely not true, this is pure ideological propaganda with no link to reality. Ancient Egyptians and Nubians were not the same people, and we have old Egyptian texts making fun of people who had a dark skin, so obviously they were not blacks (and "black" is a modern concept, and at this time most of Africa was not…

So the same people who are offended when someone is against a black James Bond or a black God in Thor (I have nothing against Idris Elba), or offended when Egyptian Gods look Europeans (and not "white" which means nothing at all since Arabs, Turks, Iranians, Armenians, Jews and, yes, Egyptians, are white). Who cares ?…

The PT is hated because it is bad and not because of a comparison to the OT. The only reason we even saw them and liked them a little bit at the beginning was OT nostalgia. But on their own turf, they are awful movies.

I am not very strong on Eastern philosophies, but it's not so common a notion in western philosophies. Detachment from the material world is an old Gnostic idea, and I am not entirely sure it includes emotional attachement, apart from them, I do not think it is common. And Gnostics were considered evil by the Church…