Re: CHAT: Star Wars and its conlangs

Jar-Jar's speech reminded me creepily of Tok Pisin. Anyone here know it?
Lucas, Lucas! What have you against women and people of colour?

As I remarked to a friend, he would be safe if he just included women and
PoC in his movies in unmarked positions! Two black men who are main
characters doesn't save him from criticism when there is only one woman and
no people of colour among the Joe Schlepp characters. Even in Hollywood do
you have to specifically decide to not hire women and people of colour for
the hoi polloi and Ensign Redshirt positions in your movie ... you have to
make some kind of decision to exclude them, no matter that this is a Star
Wars film (with young white males its greatest fans and therefore more
attracted to the parts) and in Hollywood (racist because they think that's
what people want to see).

I mean, when was the last time you saw black people and white people as
main characters on the same show when that show wasn't Star Trek, Sliders,
or some other scifi set in the future? All sitcoms are racially segregated,
and it makes me sick. There is more racial diversity in the original Star
Trek crew than there is on all of non-scifi television today all added up.
And that is *sad.*

BB
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