Occasionally, the odds are youll meet someone who liked Jar Jar, but theyll never tell you they did. The hatred for the character is so universal, so based in an assumed consensus, that to be the one that says, wellll, actually would be to automatically remove credibility for any other opinion you might have. You can be for the war in Iraq and still have a viewpoint on austerity and balancing the budget; you can be a secret Justin Bieber fan and still hold forth on the state of music today; you tell people you liked Jar Jar, and thats it for you. Part of it is the obvious shoehorning into the script of a grating, ear-flapping comic relief character that didnt need to exist. Part of it is the unintentional racism of the thing, with his various Caribbean ethnic and racial characteristics combining with his goofy uselessness and amiable stupidity to create a character designed to pander to the younger end of the Star Wars fan spectrum that also manages to reinforce negative, racist stereotypes. However you choose to look at it, Jar Jar Binks is no ones finest hour.
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