Actually (not so) funny story.. I had a neo-nazi kid in my class growing up.. like wear a nazi arm band to school level, and he was a massive star wars nerd. He actually liked the empire tho, so.. he'd be fully on board with this representation
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Amazing that the school didn't do anything. Curious as to which era of Star Wars this was? Early, Prequels, later?
Well the school was quite limited in what the could do as long as no teacher saw him displaying the symbols directly, so.. basically only show it to people when the teacher leaves the room, or during breaks etc.
In terms of eras, im not sure? Im not a star wars fan myself.. this was like 2018-2021, so im imagining everything up to then.. I know he talked about yoda quite a bit, if he was in a specific era only that may help narrow down his favourite
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No they don't.
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They kinda do see some vague similarities (there is a prison) if they squint but it's different because reasons.
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They do but they think it's woke garbage anyway.
- There is no such thing as a "right wing" Star Wars fan.
- They cried when Palpatine died.
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OTOH, look at all the Stormtrooper cosplayers, who actually have formal legions and get into character about defending the Empire the way Good Germans would about the Third Reich.
One problem with Star Wars is that it makes fascism look cool to enough of the public that the next generation of real-world Nazis approvingly quotes it. (Compare this with Doctor Who, whose in-universe fascists, the Daleks, are kind of pathetic and not something anyone would emulate.)
The downside of the Daleks being kind of weird-looking is that people don't recognise them as fascists and so fascists happily keep watching Doctor Who (even though they hate everything about it and will write books about why it's being cancelled any day now).
It's no use depicting fascists in popular media, they don't recognise themselves in the villain.
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“Right-wing Star Wars fans” in for a rude awakening when they figure out who the Empire represents.
jfc
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