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I feel like Finn actually makes a better Christian-like hero than Anakin, but specifically in a way that I know a huge portion of Christians would disagree with. The Christianity I was raised in was very much opposed to feeling guilt after change, as it’s selfish and you’re best spending your efforts in helping others. I might be influenced by Boyega being Christian, but I got the vibe that his portrayal ofFinn wasn’t “proud” but rather humble. True humility which is not self-centered. (Moth)

I personally think genuine guilt could be healthy, but the way Kylo Ren does it feels wallowing, even masturbatory. Making other people’s lives about his goddamned feelings that will do no one any good at all since he won’t act on them.

To clarify I don’t think Finn was actually proud or arrogant, rather I mean racist and cultural distortions could lead people to perceive him as such. “Uppity,” to draw on a word that has been used in ugly and violent ways against Black people.

Okay but the main characters in Star Wars resistance are all poc except the alien, as is the main st squad save Rey (who’s only really white [because racism] (so people will think) she’s related to the ot trio). The remaining allies of the st characters are a Jewish woman, a black man, a (black) alien lady, and likely Naomi Ackie’s character if the photos we’ve seen so far are of her/to be believed. First Order, obviously all white, no aliens except Snoke. 1/2

The implication in the new episode is that the kids they were
chasing were both aliens and clearly poc-coded (dark brown skin, very
curly hair; just had yellow eyes and maybe pinkish bits of hair as well)
and the first order destroyed their whole planet/people. It’s bridging
the gap between the sloppy metaphor for racism in anti-alien bigotry and
actual racism, in my opinion. I very much think Kylo (and theFO) is
being reestablished as a figure of white male entitlement.

That’s an interesting direction to go! I mean it’s where the ST is pretty clearly headed, from the fact that none of the main heroes is a white dude (fandom’s extended denial notwithstanding). It would be interesting to see where else SWR is taking this connection. I’m not necessarily optimistic, given the hash they made of the Zeb/Lasat storyline in the other SWR, but the intent is there.

The situation here in Brazil is bad. There’s a lot of people who are saying they literally told to their family “please, don’t vote in this guy! We’re afraid to DIE” and their families voted in him anyway. People are getting depressed because they know relatives who has no empathy for LGBT+, black, native americans, people from northeastern… Even if their children is one who may will die

It’s post-2016 elections all over again and I feel horrible for people who realized that not only their country but their own family members don’t believe them/care about them.

There needs to be a distinction between us “you and me and them”, “you and me but not them”, and “me and them but not you”. Does Korean have one?

Not with separate pronouns, no. I think 咱们 and 我们 in Mandarin Chinese do something like that distinction, although it’s not identical to the one you say. From what I understand 咱们 includes the person being spoken to while 我们 might not. My Chinese is really rusty, though.

The fact the kylo has feelings makes everything he does so much worse imho. The fact that he couldn’t bring himself to fire the shot against his mother doesn’t mean anything when he did jack to try and stop anyone else from firing on her you know? That he apparently loved his dad but still murdered him? Horrifying.

Exactly. I’ve heard Kylo Ren described as weak, but the truth is the opposite. He is incredibly strong and has to put incredible effort into his atrocities overcoming the moral values instilled in him by good and loving parents. He believes so absolutely in his righteousness, his entitlement, that he’s willing to tear himself apart to do what he believes in. That’s absolutely terrifying and not something we’ve really seen in a SW villain.

there was a kylo ren reference in star wars resistance tonight, apparently slaughtering villages is a hobby for him. the episode’s premise revolves around 2 kids running away from the FO after kylo killed their entire village, including their parents. FO wants to kill the kids, too.

Oh but poor babby Ben felt TERRIBLE about having to kill them, in fact how dare the villagers make him feel so bad these kids deserved to die for that and also children are terrorist enemy combatants too and should have been killed poor Ben did nothing wrong uwu

Also what are these kids whining about anyway? At least they didn’t have a powerful Dark Side user stalking them from their father’s left nut and their dead parents actually cared about them something something kitchen droid Bendemption 2k19!!!✌️👍💖