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I think Ghorman has a mix of inspirations. I think its main character is different from Gaza, however, and in ways that matter.
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Ghorman is portrayed as vaguely Western European, with French-Germanic language, exclusively white people, a wealthy country with one make export: extremely expensive textiles made of silk. They are not portrayed as imperialized, but as a wealthy and proud group. Their racial characteristics are in line with those of the empire, just without British accents, whereas imperialized groups in Star Wars are depicted as racially diverse humans or “aliens”.
The Ghorman resistance is portrayed as incompetent and arrogant, generally unserious and making poor strategic choices. They are constantly surprised by the outcomes of their actions. They do not listen to the free advice of people with more experience and revolutionary resources. Their main leader is literally a wealthy businessman nationalist. The people under him are naive youths. They have no consistent goal or idea of how they accomplish the major goal of removing occupation. They think a big show of “peaceful protest” and singing songs in a square will work and are massacred for it. Very late in the game their main leader realizes his idealism will lead to this massacre but nobody listens to him. He has no caché even among his alleged subordinates. They are a liberal bourgeois shitshow. They are even depicted as a color revolution in many ways.
Ghorman is closer to the idea of fascism returning home, or otherwise betraying its allies for its own interest. It has the one common attribute with Gaza, which is genocide and forced migration by an imperialist group, but it is not done for colonization, but resource extraction. They’re mining a mineral so extensively that it ruins habitability. There is no real precedent for this among Euro imperialists: they destroy habitability via extraction outside the imperial core, not within it. Even when conquering one another! Ghorman us a mixture of elements.
But the main “message” of Ghorman is that “if it can happen to us, it can happen to you”, something that wouldn’t make sense if they were already considered marginal and downtrodden. Ghorman are insiders of the Empire, they are rich, they are ethnically privileged, but the Empire saw it necessary to destroy them to keep the rest of their subjects in line via a superweapon, so Ghorman was destroyed. And via the propaganda apparatus, consent for this was manufactured and bourgeois democrats sold it as a necessary evil against an arrogant state gone rogue.
I think OP is referring to “genocide” part of things and not the resistance side of things.
Outside actor decides “we want the stuff in your planet”, parks soldiers all over the place, interrupts the daily lives of the citizens in hundreds if not thousands of different ways. This creates friction, discontent, among the population towards the visible agents of the invaders. Every time the local population steps out of line or acts out from this frustration the invading force ratchets up the pressure.
More soldiers, more patrols, checkpoints start going in, more supply lines start going through the areas which makes it harder for the locals to travel on roads or get to where they are going.
More frustration, more instances of acting out, occupation forces increase pressure. Propaganda arm reports all instances of the locals speaking out or acting out in ways that paint the locals in a bad light, that the occupiers are the victims.
Eventually, things move to open fighting and then the genocide can happen out in the open.
we have conservative trekkies and maga fans of rage against the machine; i suspect that any comparison to gaza will be lost by very large swathes of people watching andor.
They think its trump and the rebels are “leftists” aka democrats. Go on
and see, its psychological damage reading the takes there.
I dont think it was really intented that much as a gaza analog (france is famed for fashion, and belgium/italy was famed for textiles). Although its possible since arab countries were cited as an inspiration for ghorman architecture and in general imperialists play by similar playbooks.
Ghorman massacre reminded me a lot of the tlatelolco massacre that happened in Mexico
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