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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2019-04-19 06:45 pm

[ SECRET POST #4487 ]


⌈ Secret Post #4487 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2019-04-19 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Honestly, people need to stop with the "space Nazis" thing. It's stupid and offensive, and I'm not a Star Wars fan. Nazism is a real and terrifying political ideology that derives its tenants from the mass extermination of specific ethnic, religious, and other minority groups. Sci-fi bad guys aren't "Nazis" because they wear uniforms.

(Anonymous) 2019-04-19 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
They're a fictional group but they're clearly drawn pretty directly from authoritarian fascist regimes in real life.

(Anonymous) 2019-04-19 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
nayrt

The Empire was inspired by Richard Nixon's America.

(Anonymous) 2019-04-20 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
But Hux shouting encouragement to massed stormtroopers in TFA... did not look like Nixon.

(Anonymous) 2019-04-20 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
Also: the word "stormtroopers"
sabotabby: (jetpack)

[personal profile] sabotabby 2019-04-20 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
Also the fact that the visuals are drawn directly from Leni Riefenstahl and they blow up fucking planets.

(Anonymous) 2019-04-20 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
da

The visuals are a shorthand to help the audience understand that the bad guys are Bad. That doesn't mean Empire/First Order are Nazis.

Also, wouldn't blowing up Jedha/Alderaan/Hosnian Prime be more like dropping an atomic bomb than anything Nazi Germany did with weapons?

(Anonymous) 2019-04-20 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
applicability does not intent make

(Anonymous) 2019-04-20 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
But so? That doesn't make them Nazis. We should stop watering down Nazism by calling generic fictional military industrial complex baddies "Nazis".

(Anonymous) 2019-04-19 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you for saying this.

(Anonymous) 2019-04-20 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
What bothers me about this is how the designs and scenes with the First Order in TFA are clearly and verh heavy-handedly and clumsily supposed to be reminiscend of the Nazis (to a point where it's almost insulting to the viewers, like, how obvious can they be so even the dumbest person gets their point?) but we ultimately don't get to know all that much about the actual ideology behind the First Order. So calling them Space Nazis is mainly based on their visuals.