I had a colleague who was a huge Star Wars fan and kept Star Wars toys around his workplace. He was completely taken by surprise when I told him how the rebels were based on Viet Minh. He had never heard about that ever. Or about the Viet Minh for that sake. The guy has an engineering degree.

Liberal nerds will absolutely consume the slop for years and years without applying a single brain cell to any sort of analysis of the story. Instead they'll memorize boring pointless statistics about the plumbing on the death star or the insignia on the space Nazis' uniforms.