Don’t know why you’re getting downvoted either. I gave you an upvote.

If anything I’d think my take was more controversial.

Andor purposefully did a lot to expand upon the daily life of the empire. Having the Imperial officer being a family man with wife and kid in the earlier episodes for example. Portraying the empire as being as being varying degrees of “bad.”

A little deeper thought than I intended to go with my previous comment. Because Star Wars is a medium intended to be viewed by our world’s eyes. Biologically speaking, race doesn’t exist. We all know and are aware that the idea of race exist though, and has power.

In the Star Wars wars universe it makes sense to not have a system of patriarchy with “white men” being those in power, as their worlds are different than the current world we live in. But that is what we were were presented in the original trilogy, white men in a powerful fascist government that wore similar outfits/gear to nazis. Which is why I mentioned that it was odd personally, to have non-white men being portrayed as space-nazis in recent Star Wars adaptions.

As the article below delves deeper into. The idea of racism derives from what can be gained in creating and supporting it. The Star Wars universe in all adaptions, presents people doing things for money at the detriment to others. Therefore, racism as we understand it in our world surely exist within the Star Wars Universe. It has been simplified though to the fascist Empire is just very xenophobic.

>It is critical in understanding that racism did not begin with...race. The roots of racism stem from differing religions, the mission to Christianize, and the global acceptability of owning those of a different faith. It was acceptable for Christians to have non-Christian slaves, Muslims to have non-Muslim slaves, or African peoples to own others from enemy tribes.

>However, in the late middle ages, slave owners began to pivot toward making a profit when the Portuguese began their exploration and triggered Western exploitation of African goods, services, and bodies. Original justifications were because African peoples were not vastly Christian, but after Christianization, slavers needed a new reason to justify their highly-profitable industry.

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This is one of the weird complaints I have with the gender/racial inclusion of the Empire in recent SW depiction. Complaint isn’t even a good word for it, but observation doesn’t quite work either.

Yeah it’s great for casting great actors, but space Nazis being an “equal opportunity workplace” (for humans) just feels odd.

Compared to the Original Trilogy where the space nazis(Bad) were all carbon copies of one look/uniform/race/gender and the Rebel Alliance(Good) was a melting pot of species and different looking, different outfits, different races, and different genders. All the way from the people who just walked in to join, to the people leading.