A Jewish man wrote a story about fighting Nazis and you’re all just ‘hmm…nah I don’t think so.’
I don’t know how anyone could’ve watched this movie, see this
And not instantly connect it to Nazism. The coding is there, obvious, plain as day, staring you in the face, in the movie itself, but you’re just ‘let’s fawn over these guys’.
It wasn’t even Abrams. The Galactic Empire and the Sith Empire the preceded it are also extremely unsubtle fascism.
In SWTOR, Dark Side Sith have this thing about blood purity going on.
This has been Star Wars’ thing since it’s inception.
They talk about this in a documentary they made for The History Channel, it’s called “Star Wars: The legacy revealed”.
That’s an extract of the Wikipedia page but the documentary itself is really detailed and interesting, and it explains not only the link to the Nazis but also other links with facism and dictators
“The Legacy Revealed shows many connections between the Nazis and the Empire. Examples shown are that Vader’s own troops, Stormtroopers, share the same name with Hitler’s. The black, white, and red used in many scenes with the Empire are the same colors of the swastika, and that Darth Vader’s helmet is similar to that of the German Army’s.” (wikipedia)
When A New Hope came out, WWII was only 30 years ago. The comparison has always been plain as fucking day
like deadass the star wars villains have been nazis this whole time…how can that go over your head
The foot soldiers are fucking called stormtroopers
the visual symbolism and presentation for the first order alone ~the stark black white and red contrasts, megalomaniac speeches in front of perfectly aligned soldiers and gigantic symbols (come on they´re fucking called STORMTROOPERS), the damn, synchronized hand gesture that´s basically a HItler salute with a closed fist instead of an open palm, the grandstanding, the rolling R´s with which Hux delivers his speech basically spraying spit…I mean COME ON the only way to make this more blatanly a parallel to how Nazi/facsistic tyrants love to present themselves would be a character named Darth Hitler.
and believe me, as a german person, this scene made me absolutely, bone deep uncomfortable with how alike it was to all that old footage of nazi rallys and propaganda and fucking ratface Adolf spewing filth with spittle flying from his mouth that we had to watch over and over and over again in history class and social studies and religion and politics from the first day we set foot into school.
(as does a certain ratfaced, filth spewing racist cheeto in you know where…)
Death By Catchphrase 