defira85:

Hey so uh

while I understand the frustration behind the moral and political alignment and biases in Star Wars and the obvious meta-bias towards Light=Good and Dark=Bad, you can express those frustrations without using words and language that are specifically for addressing racial inequality and acts of violence and erasure against non-whites

“lightwashing” isn’t a good word. It’s deliberately piggybacking off the implications associated with “whitewashing” which is a term to describe the very real and very deliberate preference for pale or whiter skin tones, it’s using the similarity to rouse similar feelings when the comparison is not even remotely the same

you can be frustrated and angry and hateful towards the morality system and philosophical viewpoints and real world implications of those viewpoints without co-opting the language of PoC and the literal acts of erasure and hatred they have to endure

you’re frustrated at the writer bias towards light-side narratives and Light=Good and Right? perfectly cool, write meta about it and rage about it and write a better universe, share your views and argue passionately. You don’t need to use the language associated with racial inequality to express your point, otherwise you’re veering dangerously close to “Mage Lives Matter” bullshit 

fellow white folk, please don’t. just don’t