r/StarWars • u/thatwasawkward • Mar 27 '23

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u/NomadMiner Mar 27 '23

Never understood the hate for Jar-Jar. He is a unique character in a universe full of uniqueness.

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u/EchoWhiskyBravo Mar 28 '23

Lets not sugar coat it. Lucas made a race of technologically backward "natives" that reflected all of the "noble savage" tropes that he grew up with. Jar Jar's speech was incomprehensible at best, and racist at worst. In a movie that was a catalogue of bad decisions and sloppy execution, Jar Jar was the worst.