George Lucas came under well-deserved criticism in the Star Wars - TopicsExpress



          

George Lucas came under well-deserved criticism in the Star Wars prequels with his use of blatant racial stereotypes: the execrable Jamaican in Jar-Jar Binks, the Jewish merchant and so forth. But this kind of racism also shows up in more benign ways in SciFi/Fantasy such as in Star Trek: Klingons are all aggressive, the Ferengi are dishonest, the Vulcan unemotional, and so on. A discussion about how this plays into games such as the World of Warcraft and how all of these just project onto our fiction the experience with the other IRL (In Real Life).
Posted on: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 11:45:06 +0000

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