re: It's truly amazing how far Disney has managed to cheapen Star Wars.

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generally don’t yell about wokeness, but I do recognize it. Your politics (not saying your politics are wrong) probably don’t register “woke” points like it does on the right. It triggers them (us.)

You just recognized that it was an inferior product. The right thinks almost every diversity casting is “woke” thus making it inferior. In reality, it’s probably inferior because of poor casting and writing. The right questions if being diverse lead to the inferiority.

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Casting because of demographics is a form of identity politics. It becomes even more toxic when any criticism of actors is attacked as racist or sexist or homophobic or transphobic.

This is the Star Wars franchise. Actors are going to be criticized by nerds. This is the life purpose of nerds.

Attacking nerds who do this is like calling football fans racist for booing a loss. It just misses the point and demonstrates the person saying these things has suspect motivations and should not be taken seriously.