Yes I am well aware that their eyes are not actually slit, I didn’t mean literally. Look at the pupils. Point remains. As I said I can buy it as a coincidence but it’s still an unfortunate one.

I don’t find any of it offensive and I think the racial caricatures are least of those characters’ problems, but to dismiss the accusations outright is silly. This isn’t binary. It’s not “is George Lucas an evil racist or isn’t he.” It’s a bit more complicated than that.

I thought zombie did a pretty good job on the subject in the Secret History of Star Wars.