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We could be going towards a Star Trek like earth, but instead we're going for Star Wars like democracies
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...where immigrants are objectified and treated exactly as disposably and thoughtlessly as the droids are in Star Wars.
It actually really bothers me how Star Wars loves to charm the audience with charismatic clearly sentient robot slaves and yet doesn't give a fuck about ANY of the ethical implications of all that fun except for the occasional flavor sideplot. I am tired of people normalizing this and laughing it all off cus aren't the robot slaves cute when they grumble? (similar thing with LOTR and orcs basically, but ugly because ugly = evil).
They are sentient, it is fucked up to deal with it extremely inconsistently and it demonstrates a stunning lack of understanding of the responsibility storytellers have to subvert dehumanizing narratives that can lead to egregious systematic storytelling issues.
Star Wars unintentionally reflects the culture it came out of in many ways, and not in a good way.
Sadly, Star Wars mostly just reflects one single white man's subconscious understanding of that culture (George Lucas). Just in the fact that Trek was written by many (yes, Roddenberry was very important but not the only voice) makes it more interesting, at least to me.