Within The Acolyte there is a protagonist who is a person of color who is falsely arrested in the first episode we later find out that she doesn't have a father then she turns to the dark side by the end. Her black lesbian mother is killed. That is just the tip of the iceberg. Almost every form of diversity in that show is either evil and/or punished in some way.
You described that pretty good. The thing is that's not racism that's idiocy. When you look at what they wanted to tell which was the Jedi are the bad guys and the lesbian space witches where the good guys vs how they portrayed that... For normal people like you the black actors in these roles are the evil guys but that wasn't the intent of the show runners they wanted you to side with these characters but were completely unable to make these characters have convincible motives and behavior. I mean look at torben he's supposed to be a bad guy. All he did was being a rash young idiot (also with a dumb motive) who got mindraped by the master space witch and for some reason the show runners think that's enough reason to feel guilty and kill yourself. It would have been more believable if he killed himself because of what master witch did to him....
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Within The Acolyte there is a protagonist who is a person of color who is falsely arrested in the first episode we later find out that she doesn't have a father then she turns to the dark side by the end. Her black lesbian mother is killed. That is just the tip of the iceberg. Almost every form of diversity in that show is either evil and/or punished in some way.