Is it racist to not think highly of Star Wars' senate?

This week we got a little Star Wars to go with the Supreme Court hearing

Mike Lee put to his Senate colleagues a comment on the Democrat’s stated desire to expand and pack the Supreme Court, likening their future court to “the Senate from Star Wars.” Which is to say, obscenely large. Republican Senator John Kennedy (Louisiana) also mentioned Star Wars in his allotted time, saying the Kavanaugh hearings of 2018 were something like “the cantina scene from Star Wars.” Enter Slate writer Ben Mathis-Lilley to obfuscate the obvious in favor of the bad faith reading of Lee’s quip.

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He writes, “The Galactic Senate, moreover, is an egalitarian democratic body that, in the Star Wars timeline, is eventually disbanded by the autocratic Emperor Palpatine, whose Galactic Empire was explicitly designed, by Star Wars creator George Lucas, to evoke Nazism. Are Kennedy and Lee aware of these connotations?” 

This is a fundamental misreading of George Lucas’ prequel trilogy. The Galactic Senate is eclectic and represents a multitude of species from all across the galaxy, but representation in government and egalitarianism aren’t one and the same.

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