I understood his point just fine, I just think bringing in extra-textual material like this is a bad move in general. Deleted scenes are like biblical apocrypha. It’s interesting stuff from a process standpoint, but it’s disingenuous to assign it any kind of substantial weight when you’re evaluating the finished film, especially when it was cut for the very reason you find it problematic in the first place. Star Wars aside, I take issue with that as a general principle of criticism.