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FortuneCookie posted...

You can say things like "lightsabers are cool" or "I enjoyed the fight with the rancor." Pretty much anything else has a measure of subtext to it whether it wants to be addressed or not. Even asking a question like "What will the Empire do in the next movie? Or, if there's no Empire, who will the new enemy be?" could leave someone biting their lip to try and avoid saying anything political.

The first Star Wars movie had the Empire ignoring the intergalactic council. Maybe the next prequel will have their own version of 1/6 showing the early warning signs of fascism. But that's political. Even the famed Darth Vader twist could be argued to have political undertones as it represents an age gap: the 1940-1950s generation that were in support of war and the 1960s-1970s generation that opposed it. The Rebel symbol (and the concept of a rebel is political) is a cross between the Fleur-de-lis and the peace symbol.

It's like having a fight with an elephant and not being allowed to comment on what the elephant represents. You can't even get into hypotheticals about where the series goes from here because those choices are likely to be predicated on some measure of politics. "I bet the next Star Wars movie is a bunch of laser fights in space with no overtones."

What I was in the previous post if you read it is that discussing that subtext is not what they're trying to discourge, clearly. It's overtly political current events "election in Wisconsin", or "Joe Biden/Donald Trump did x this week".

You're not going to get banned for talking about in universe stuff, the politics of that universe, or how it relates to or parallels the real world