I am forever baffled by the amount of people who are willing to take Lucas to task for absolutely everything except for the racial insensitivity. We all agree on a thousand other ways he fucked up making the prequels, why is this one so hard to swallow?
Also, this “takes one to know one” idea I’ve seen come up a few times that anyone who detects racism in these things must be a racist themselves (“Nemoidians only seem like Asian stereotypes to you because that must be how you personally see Asians”) might just be the stupidest and most wrongheaded thing I’ve ever seen here, which is really saying something.
A close second is “This one black/Asian/Jewish/etc. guy doesn’t have a problem with it, so all other criticism isn’t valid.”
I was kinda hoping the argument would end with this comment. Guess not…