Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom?

• scholar@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There’s no indication that slavery was a factor, only political self-determination

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  • Apytele@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    …that phrasing is not helpful to this argument…

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    • scholar@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      We’re not told much about the Independant Planets, certainly nothing suggests that they themselves did anything wrong (other than secede). You seem to have a problem with their superficial resemblence of the confederacy.

      Mal and his crew are thieves and smugglers, not pirates or murderers. The ‘Mal is latin for bad’ line another commenter mentioned was a red herring in an episode. They aren’t evil people intent on subjugation.

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