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"Inclusive ideologies" disrupting the enjoyment of the movies is a personal problem. If you don't like real Art that speaks truth and values, then don't watch movies. Also, Star Wars has never been "a simple concept of good against evil amid battles in space" and saying that is extremely reductionistic, and also shows you have no clue what George Lucas was saying in these movies.
FYI, the movies were largely inspired by Star Trek, which was somewhat progressive in its time.
I'm Really Concerned About The State Of The Star Wars Fandom Right Now
Having a gay or queer person in a TV Show doesn't magically make that TV Show political. Having a black person play God in The Shack doesn't make it political. To say that necessitates that no non-political show should ever have gay or black people. To say that necessitates a gendering of an ungendered God. Not only does a significant portion of the Star Wars fanbase fail on logical and philosophical grounds, they fail on moral grounds too.
This isn't new. These people can twist any literature and movie series they grew up reading and watching into something that s their ideology, using Tolkein for racism and antisemitism, using 1984 for authoritarianism, and even suggesting that Star Wars somehow *never* had any relation to the real world or a philosophy, which just goes to show their lack of media literacy and how little they are able to understand the messages behind George Lucas' movies, half of which are movies about galaxy politics of how authoritarians rise. By doing this, THEY are making these non-political things political, and then trying to argue that the politics of the galaxy is somehow not political. There's nothing political about being gay or trans except what anti-LGBTQ+ people have made it into. THE FANBASE decided that being gay is an ideology, but that doesn't make it true.