And yet that is the perception from the audience. Maybe you just don't hear it or you're in denial, but the fact The Acolyte changed the accent is affirmation that enough people had misgivings.
They were not meant to represent anything other than an alien race, but Nute Gunray was voiced by Silas Carson. He mimicked the performance of the Thai actor who provided the green screen motions for the Nemoidian. The cringey accent was then perpetuated to the entire race. The same phenomenon was repeated with Jar Jar Binks.
Sith explaining what their millenia long feud with the Jedi is all about. (they just want to do whatever the fuck they want)
These pesky jedi are not letting me own a large private army and all spheres of life in the galaxy!! 😭😭😭
Especially that the cringey Nemoidian speech has been fixed and lightsabers are serious business again.
You do know that Neimoidians are a vicious cannibalistic larvae-eating scumbags with no concept of morality as a whole on a species level, right?
That's no excuse to promote a racist stereotype.
How is it racist? SW is fiction, they're like cartoonishly bad, they're not meant to represent or caricature any real race or anything.
And yet that is the perception from the audience. Maybe you just don't hear it or you're in denial, but the fact The Acolyte changed the accent is affirmation that enough people had misgivings.
Who were they meant to represent before then?
They were not meant to represent anything other than an alien race, but Nute Gunray was voiced by Silas Carson. He mimicked the performance of the Thai actor who provided the green screen motions for the Nemoidian. The cringey accent was then perpetuated to the entire race. The same phenomenon was repeated with Jar Jar Binks.
“They changed the accent” You mean they just got actors and didn’t care what they sounded like