I thought it was bad enough when TLJ critics were put into the racist/sexist/entitled/nerd rage/man-baby buckets. but now we're not even humans, we're just automatons of a totalitarian foreign regime.
as low as my opinion of TLJ is, I think the pushback by Disney and media outlets is where the majority of the damage has been done. the worst that George did after prequel criticism was brush his own movies off as children's matinee flicks. if he came out and said that all the haters were frothing alt-right incels, and major media outlets repeated that theme, I think our memories of the prequel trilogy would be quite different.
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