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Under the Empire’s regime, Chewbacca himself was forced into slavery, until Han Solo freed him. You know, Wookiees were actually one of the species enslaved by the Empire, as the Wookiee home world Kashyyyk was previously a peaceful, neutral planet. On many Empire controlled worlds, slavery was legal-and who do you think the super racist Empire chose to enslave? Aw, geez.

The Empire’s prejudice against non-humans isn’t just about discrimination in the workplace, though. That’s no small feat, and is supposed to prove just how dangerous Thrawn is. As a result of his brilliant tactical skills, Thrawn rose to the rank of Admiral anyway. a humanoid species with blue skin and red eyes). If you delve into the old Legends EU, one of the most loved antagonists, Admiral Thrawn, was discriminated against by other Imperials because he was a Chiss (i.e. The prequels’ primary villain, Count Dooku, is just one character from the official canon that adheres to a strict humans-only philosophy. That’s right! The Empire is racist-or speciesist, really. Basically, in the eyes of the Empire, if you’re not a human (or humanoid), you’re worthless-and sometimes even humanoids arepushing it. It partakes systematic oppression of non-human races. It partakes in Big Brother-y surveillance. With its Third Reich-ish uniforms and related iconography, the Empire practically takes you by the shoulders and screams “SPACE NAZI” at your eyeballs. George Lucas wasn’t particularly subtle about this. So, let’s answer Abramson’s question, and see why the Empire and First Order is wrong, why the Rebellion/Resistance is the side you should root for, and how all of this ties in to American history.

That’s when I realized that beyond blowing up planets and the practicing dark magic, most people probably don’t know why the Empire (and now, The First Order) is bad.

He wants to know why there aren’t non-humanoid Stormtroopers specifically. “Why are all Stormtroopers human (or humanoid)?”Ībramson isn’t asking why the Stormtroopers aren’t clones. While I quibble with the title (your annoyance that there wasn’t more Captain Phasma does not a plot hole make), the biggest complaint that stuck out at me was the following: Amongst the myriad of “This is why The Force Awakens sucked” op-eds that popped up over the last couple weeks, this one from The Huffington Post’s Seth Abramson seems to be one of the most popular. Then, the flood of backlash articles started. At first, no one said a bad thing about the movie. If you’re anything like me, you spent the first 24 hours after viewing of The Force Awakens reading every article and review you could get your hands on.