A long time ago in a galaxy not far away,

Jar Jar Binks made his Star Wars debut

and the public response was intense.

The redemption of Jar Jar Binks is a new show

about one of the most polarizing characters

in cinematic history and the extreme online backlash

against Ahmed Best, the actor who played him.

Join host Dylan Marin as he dies into

one of the first ever internet hate campaigns

and with a backlash against Jar Jar

can teach us about fandoms today.

Find the redemption of Jar Jar Binks

wherever you get your podcasts.

I mean, in Lauren Bober's case,

she says on one podcast in middle of it with a QAnon promoter

but she says sort of like, yeah, you know,

I hope that's real, that's more of my mom's thing.

You know, no, on one hand, it's pretty crazy to say you hope

Hillary Clinton is drinking kids blood or whatever.

But you can see she's kind of trying to avoid

offending them but saying like, yeah, maybe,

maybe not my thing.

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