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The Importance of Human Characters in Star Wars
The human presence is supposed to say something about the empire and it's sort of supposed to be a nazish allusion to the area in race and uber mention the empire is racist and sexist and also speciesist. But if the rebel leaders are bon-mothma and bale and luthin and saa and kleya and kasian and velles like all humans it makes the alliance seem more insular and possibly prejudiced too. If deadra and gorse weren't human i guess you could say like maybe it would let us off the hook as human viewers we could just you know dismiss that as like well we wouldn't do this it's because of