Signal Boost: The "Cowardice" of Grievous - a Historical Perspective

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second_evtales posted: The "Cowardice" of Grievous - a Historical Perspective

Clone Wars is one of my favourite cartoons ever.

It is also a mess of unacknowledged but rampant colonialism, imperialism and both space- and IRL-racism: the fact that the Clones, who are slaves bred for war and scarificed in their millions are PoCs is only the most blatant.

The treatment of General Grievous (AKA Qymaen jai Shelaal, warleader of Kalee) is also a result of this distorting lens and of the chronic incapability of Lucas and Filoni to 1) reign in their white privilege and 2) write antagonists whithout making them stereotypical cackling, moustache-twirling villains.

This is a fantastic meta about Grievous's Legends background, his treatment in TCW and the disturbing parallels to victor-written histories in our own world.