So. Star Wars just went woke did it?
But…wait…
Isn’t Star Wars the story of a army of male CLONES fighting for an authoritarian, colonialist Empire?
versus
An intersectional alliance of diverse species with capital ships commanded by sentient LOBSTERS???
How much more woke can scifi get?
Er. Star Trek’s original multiracial crew? Marvel’s encoded counter cultural messages? HG Wells anti-colonialist novels? The existentialist skepticism of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley?
The truth is..scifi has always been woke.
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10:39 Scifi has always been woke
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19:36 Centralized vs Decentralized Culture
22:50 Disney can’t serve both sides of the culture wars
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