Racism in Star Wars

There's a lot of racism in Star Wars, including anti-arab racism, anti-asian racism, and anti-black racism. You can pick any of the main movie trilogies and probably most if not all of the books, movies, tv shows, or games that have been released to see this.

And no, having a few black or asian characters doesn't fix the racist origins of the tropes used to depict the Tusken Raiders or the Gungans or the Ewoks (the latter of who are depicted as noble savage cannibals)!

I've seen a lot of fans try to push back on fandom racism in ways that simultaneously disregard the racism built into the core of the Star Wars canon itself, and I don't think you can grapple with racism in the Star Wars fandom if you ignore racism in Star Wars itself. Doing that just makes it a fandom war between fans upholding different kinds of racism, not people who actually want to address racism in fandom spaces.

Racism isn't a superficial part of Star Wars (or a lot of other popular media), it's not something held just by 'fans who hate on Star Wars', or even something perpetrated only by fandom as a whole, it's a deeply entrenched part of society that manifests in different people in different ways.

Fighting racism requires understanding that.