The Jedi are Slaveowners

[unspeakablehorror]

Sure wish people didn't judge the worth of the clones by how loyal they are to the Republic and Jedi who enslaved them.  Just unfollowed someone for suggesting that a clone being mind-controlled would make them less likable/sympathetic as a person.

Like, let's be clear here. The only way a clone 'betraying' the Republic or Jedi, *even of their own free will*, is a judgeworthy offense is if you condone slavery.  I can't even begin to understand the mental contortions someone would have to go through to judge someone poorly for being mindcontrolled into turning on their current slaveowners so they could be used by different slaveowners(and thus being doubly victimized).

Anyway, Slick was right.

Ahem.  That is all.

Comments

[tobermoriansass]

Is this about the thing that I've been vaguely seeing hinted at in the new season of Clone Wars? About some clone who gets mind-controlled or something by the Separatists?

Anyway, I agree (if not already obvious :P). I think a lot of people in fandom operate from a relationship with the text that divides the stories into heroes/villains and buy into the whole media-framing of "friends of heroes" = good, "enemies of heroes" = bad. So they're not really thinking through the implications of what they're saying.

And ofc, all discourse in Star Wars fandom is so severely poisoned that if you critique the Jedi & Republic people tend to assume you're an unhinged Anakin fan rather than someone approaching the text from an interested outsider perspective - it's always assumed to be leveraged in some part of some fandom war. So sadly it tends to make people even...more uncritical about their faves.

[unspeakablehorror]

Possibly. While I haven't seen the new series, this was regarding a post about it. Specifically, it was about someone worried that the central clone character of the series would attack one of their faves, with the implication that that they couldn't possibly like or sympathize with the character if that happened.

And the Anakin thing certainly doesn't surprise me, I've criticized that segment of fandom too before, in fact for the same reasons. Wow I really hate the whole 'my fave is the best and everyone else can either be their fawning bff or die' attitude that so many people seem to have in fandom haha.