The Last Jedi is clear fascist allegory with Rey as the Nazi Ubermensch whose innate biological superiority comes from God (the Force). Latinx homosexual Poe questions White Authority and is forced at gunpoint to accept his place in the social order.
Queer-coded Snoke, who rebels against the state to create an egalitarian society of women in leadership roles, represents how non-traditionally beautiful people are otherized as monsters. His murder by the conventionally attractive protagonists is celebrated in graphic detail.
DJ, a disabled person of color, is dehumanized as a "snake" and depicted as shifty and untrustworthy. The heroes go to a planet of "aliens" and immediately start enforcing their own cultural norms and flaunting the local laws and customs because they believe themselves superior.
The white leadership of the Resistance hide behind a "wall" to stave off the social change of the First Order while sending brown bodies to die for the preservation of a social hierarchy that doesn't value their autonomy. Finn is denied even the dignity of choosing his own death.
With the far right on the rise, we should ask ourselves what it means to celebrate a strong and beautiful white person like Rey "making the Jedi great again" while looking down on the rebels (Poe), the outcasts (Snoke) and the powerless (DJ).
Queer-coded Snoke, who rebels against the state to create an egalitarian society of women in leadership roles, represents how non-traditionally beautiful people are otherized as monsters. His murder by the conventionally attractive protagonists is celebrated in graphic detail.
DJ, a disabled person of color, is dehumanized as a "snake" and depicted as shifty and untrustworthy. The heroes go to a planet of "aliens" and immediately start enforcing their own cultural norms and flaunting the local laws and customs because they believe themselves superior.
The white leadership of the Resistance hide behind a "wall" to stave off the social change of the First Order while sending brown bodies to die for the preservation of a social hierarchy that doesn't value their autonomy. Finn is denied even the dignity of choosing his own death.
With the far right on the rise, we should ask ourselves what it means to celebrate a strong and beautiful white person like Rey "making the Jedi great again" while looking down on the rebels (Poe), the outcasts (Snoke) and the powerless (DJ).
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