imo the problem isn't so much that there are women and poc in Star Wars now, it's that there was in the past and they have to erase that past in order to make it seem like Disney is doing something new. they have to rewrite history, hence "George Lucas was a racist, Leia and Lando actually didn't save everyone in ESB, in fact, ESB would have gotten trashed". the current trend of proving yourself right not by actually being good, but by proving other people wrong. it is as if they use SJW marketing as a smokescreen to cover up any and all controversy.
it's an easy win. if you blog articles for a living, you can write it in your sleep, you don't even need to revisit the film itself. it requires zero critical thought. if any cultural critics actually gave a shit about minority representation, they would have commented on Finn being profiled as a cowardly traitor and then tasered as a joke, that there is finally a central black lead character in SW who somehow has no agency at all the entire movie, that he learns about slavery not from his stormtrooper past but from watching some chimney sweep Disney slave kids. how important is he, really? the movie just tosses him around from plot point to plot point. he doesn't even have a real name - he was given one by the unquestioned great white hope Poe Dameron. in truth there is a lot that is actually fucked up about Disney's politics, it is obvious they are doing the token thing as some kind of cynical marketing ploy. best to keep the media focused on alt right trolls, their favorite topic.
