On People with Galactic Empire / Sith Stuff
I talked about this in a vent channel on a discord server but I needed to get this off my chest publicly. I think I'm going to try and avoid anyone who has PFPs, banners, imagery and whatnot and certain spaces related to the Empire (especially those who are just too blatantly apologetic for what they did) and the Sith as much as I can with the exception of those who are kin, system mates, other things of this sort or are just otherwise harmless (i.e a server denoting its relation to star wars).
I say this because a lot of the people who do are those people who are the typical military fanboys, and some of them are even worse because they can be closet racists, fascists, etc effectively using the Star Wars factions / entities as a platform to..."let that out", I suppose, or are just otherwise unpleasant in these kinds of ways. Some of them you can tell why they have such kinds of interests immediately too, or don't get that they can like a fictitious polity or faction like the Empire without actually condoning them (or worse because they got away with supporting it fictionally they started doing so with IRL things).
I say this as a Vader kin; the Empire fucking sucks and is as illegitimate as the Rebels if not more - tell me, how did Palpatine create it? Undermining a previous government's institutions without anyone knowing to gain exorbitant amounts of political power and then deliberately causing a separatist crisis to trick them into eventually accepting his maneuvers and asinine behavior? And then what, he just starts what is effectively a religious persecution against Jedi, while also killing off or enslaving everyone who helped him get to that point and even those who were loyal to the Republic (Which became the Empire) and weren't Separatists or involved at all? Trying to create a Planet Killer and using a doctrine of rule by fear for it?
Putting aside the fact the Empire was itself formed by what any person with a rational sense and understanding of what's in Star Wars would see as a coup or act of treason, and all the other things I cannot reasonably mention here without it being too long, I see so much sanewashing of the Empire it's honestly pathetic.
Unfortunately SW is one of those series / fandoms that seems to attract these kinds of people more then others.
