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vortmax posted:excuse me i believe you misspelled Babylon 5 Babylon 5 takes so long to take off that I clearly did not get there.
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alexandriao posted:Babylon 5 takes so long to take off that I clearly did not get there. Coming back just to say, apparently watching The Gathering was exactly what I needed! I'm suckered into B5 now
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Winifred Madgers posted:This strikes me as at least as much of a stretch as people saying Watto from Star Wars is a Jewish stereotype. I mean they have ... long hair? What's the connection supposed to be? There's like a whole internet about Watto being implicitly based on Jewish stereotypes, and apparently there was very literally press about this at the time it came out. The same for, Gungans being based off Jamaican stereotypes, or Nemoidians being based off Japanese stereotypes (to the point of even their speech is based on stereotypical pronunciation of the r/l thing. None of this poo poo was hidden or not noticeable at the time If you only pick and read one link: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/racial-ventriloquism/ is a good contemporary (1999) article about the whole "racial stereotypes in star wars" thing that covers both Jar-Jar and Watto and touches on a few others too. Short read. It does go into Watto's stereotype more deeply than a few of the others and will probably answer your question  https://jewishcurrents.org/if-you-prick-watto-does-he-not-bleed/ is a modern article, a retrospective on it. Some more random contemporary mentions of it: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/1999/05/the-merchant-of-menace.html http://edition.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Movies/9906/09/jar.jar/ alexandriao fucked around with this message at 08:17 on Feb 25, 2022 |
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