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agesboy posted...

I always thought Palpatine only actually gave a shit about how useful others were to him and didn't actually care about species, but it was easier to consolidate control and exploit entire groups by stoking a sense of human superiority

After all, Thrawn's canon again, and he's a blue dude. Probably Palpatine's most trusted admiral and literally one step down from the top position in the Navy

Even in the prequels, you literally see one of Palp's direct apprentices is an alien, and he's constantly palling around with the blue alien dude who is clearly corrupt as fuck (even if he doesn't know Palp is Sith, he's absolutely helping him manipulate the Senate).

Again, the only real worthwhile canonical evidence that the Empire was racist was that most of the Imperials you see were human. But by that standard the Rebellion is also racist because outside of a couple tokens (mostly just Itsa Trapman and Replacement Chewbacca Guy), they're almost entirely human as well.