Part of the reason it received negative reviews was because of those tropes. It had other shortcomings for sure - Keira Knightley's wretched acting, the problematic start to Padme and Anakin's relationship (again, recognized by many as a problem at the time!), but the racism was obvious.

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Nonsensically loud racism, plenty of us millennials flabbergasted by it as well. "Sketch that a comedian will spend the next 3 decades trying to bury" levels of racism

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9th book purchase of 2026: The Heart of the Nhaga: the Sunday Times bestselling start to the classic epic fantasy series inspired by Korean history and mythology from a legend of SFF: Book 1 translated by @antonhur.com www.amazon.com.au/dp/000865111...

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This manoeuvre seems common among fascisms and the object is truly fungible. In Sri Lanka, for example, it manifests as a "reverence" for Buddhism that requires suspending theory or practice: it's simply an image to be projected like a banner over the violence deployed ostensibly in its defence

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I'd say it turned out to be a great investment by them!

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