If you focus on the ethnicity of the characters of a movie instead of enjoying the movie itself, I honestly think you are the problem here. Who cares if the characters are white, black, green or transparent? That’s not the point. So yes, it’s a stupid criticism.
That is a huge false equivalency in your opening sentence: Who said you can’t do both? Enjoy it, but also acknowledge there are some issues? Most of us here all love the OT, but can recognise there are some shortcomings.
Did you not read the thread? George himself brought the subject up doing the media rounds in Cannes.
It is George’s answer to the criticism that people appear to be taking issue with. Keyan literally said:
to highlight that it is George’s answer to the valid criticism of there being mainly white men in the movies that makes no sense: Because he hired Billy Dee and Samuel L Jackson, and that “Most of the people are aliens!”