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So am I not allowed to like Star Wars because I’m bi? Or perhaps I’m not actually bi? Someone let me know if I should be feeling bad rn. I’m having a hard time coming to the conclusion from this 6 hour video.
You are certainly welcome to like it. I like Star Wars otherwise I wouldn't bother with watching this video.
The thing is though, if you search for Star Wars related videos on YouTube made by so called fans, it is very easy to find stuff like Star Wars sequel trilogy was ruined because Rey is a woman or The Last Jedi sucked because it pandered to SJW, or something along the line. There is definitely a problem with this fandom.
Of course, because Star Wars has such wide appeal. Extremists shout louder and more often than moderates, which is why you’ll find way more extremist content than moderate content. Which lends to the perception that Star Wars fans are bigoted and lunatics.
But this is selection bias. You’re more likely going to find people shouting about how something sucks and potentially even being a bigot than people who happily enjoy Star Wars for what it is.
Labelling fandoms as inherently toxic or bigoted or whatever else just oversimplifies it all. Under these definitions, I fall within the fandom of Star Wars. Under the same definitions in this video, I’m anti LGBTQI and a supporter of Jungian psychology and Jordan Peterson. This is counter to reality though.
Of course you're allowed to like it. Even if something is bad for you there is a reason "guilty pleasure" is a thing. I haven't watched the video so I don't know what all it says.
I'm in the camp that says the Jedi is a fascist organization and I think the grey Jedi are a cool group. You should look them up, you might like them because they're both light and dark side.
I think analyzing the story and context through a critical psychology lens and determining that all of the fandom must have a unified ideology is silly and the product of someone having way too much time and imagination on their hands.
I liked action and lightsabers and space ships as a kid. Doesn’t mean I’m a fascist or anti lgbtqia+. This reductive thinking that often is pushed here serves no purpose other than to further divide and classify people.
Jedi are idealogues just like the Sith. They complete each other because they’re both extremists on opposite spectrums. The Jedi had big gaping flaws throughout their history, obviously so have the Sith.
I’m just here for Jar Jar.
While I agree with you it would make a more interesting story to have a balance of dark and light, it's important to note George Lucas' interpretation of the Force is that there is no 'light side' but rather there is The Force and there is going against the will of the Force, aka the Dark Side. Therefore, to Lucas' POV, the Jedi are sometimes misguided but intrisically good while the Sith are intrisically evil.
In my personal interpretation tho (which I think Clone Wars and other media tend to agree with me) Jedi in the prequels were blinded by the power they achieved and hence were ignorant and complacent to the bad stuff they indirectly and directly did or helped do. Which is why Gray Jedi (Jedi that didn't follow the Council) were closer to being like what Jedi were supposed to be, than the others were.
This isn't an attack on you, but a personal belief. I don't care what the authors intentions are. They can shed light on something but once it's out, the media is out of their hands. Great example is the book "starship troopers" and the movie.
Another thing I dislike is the 'natural' fallacy. Because force is described as 'natural'. What's natural is death, life, decay, growth, order, disorder. What the Jedi were shown to be is a weird sex cult that prevented people from getting in unless you had a 'birth right'.
If grey Jedi is what all jedi were supposed to be, then that is one thing. But that isn't what was shown.
Yeah, The Force involves life and death. The Force's will is actually to embrace a balance of both. But Dark Side users go against the will of the Force, for the sake of power or even for the sake of extending their own life or others.
I would argue that Luke and Ahsoka are great examples of gray Jedi (especially if we don't count sequel material). In Luke's case, in the OT it could be argued that his love for his friends, when he leaves Yoda to save them, and his belief that there was still good inside his father, made him a better Jedi than all before him. To me, he rejected tradition to do what was right. And that is what makes a great Jedi.