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To: VisualizeSmallerGovernment
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and Watto was a Jewish analogue.

It happens with every SW release: Some hacks purporting to represent some racial group claim the ________ character negatively stereotypes them because it ________________.

19 posted on 05/16/2005 3:24:49 AM PDT by martin_fierro (I didn't post this. I was never here.)
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To: martin_fierro

Actually, I thought Watto was Lucas' idea of a low level wiseguy running a chop shop. Now if only Anakin kills Jar Jar Binks, I can forgive everything else he does from then on.


115 posted on 05/16/2005 7:38:14 AM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: martin_fierro

Yet, it is interesting that Mr. Liberal Lucas only had one or two black characters of any importance, and hardly any Asian/Hispanic characters of any importance.


243 posted on 05/16/2005 3:57:37 PM PDT by Paul Atreides (FACT: More atrocities have been perpetrated with a hot glue gun, than with a hand gun)
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To: martin_fierro

Yeah, and my Irish wolfhound told me that the Wookie character was just a wolfhound knockoff.

It's just a movie, people!


252 posted on 05/16/2005 8:14:55 PM PDT by GladesGuru
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