Disney Lucasfilm Strikes Deal With Its Red China Business Partners to Produce Chinese Communist Party Propaganda Under the Star Wars License

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Presumably, this version of Star Wars will have the franchise's (anemic, admittedly) anti-authoritarian messaging stripped out.

From "Disney Star Wars Is Dumb:"

Now that the CCP's pet gerbil has been placed into the U.S. Presidency, and with the possibility of Bob Iger being appointed as ambassador to China, the propagandist possibilities are endless.

James Waugh, VP of Franchise Content & Strategy for Lucasfilm, says that the author of this story will bring very specific Chinese perspectives to the world building. Though it’s likely that James conflates the perspective of the Chinese people with the perspective of the CCP, which are entirely different and separate.

Chen Yang, the Vice President & Chief Editor of China Literature, claims that this effort will show online literature's "inclusiveness." Amusingly however, we already know that this "inclusive" story will feature an exclusively Chinese sector of the galaxy.

Below, Kathleen Kennedy proudly introducing her new Chinese Communist Propaganda Merchandizing Opportunity, plus some of the propaganda they're already pumping out.

That Star Wars Girl gets the object of the Chinese Communist critique wrong. She reads it as a critique of the Communist Party ruling class.

But that's not it. It's how they depict the West:

Someone was just saying something about corporations being our frenz but I didn't catch it all.

posted by Ace at 04:25 PM

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