“the jedi are war crimin–”
Clone Wars went out of its way to show the difference between Tarkin and the Jedi in a multi-episodes arc where he calls them too soft to wage war, bonds with Anakin over their shared love of brutally destroying their enemies, and dismisses the Clones’ lives as completely meaningless to the point it looks like he’s not even aware of their existence, all of this while the four Jedi are trying their best to keep everyone alive, carry their troops on their backs, and visibly/orally display grief and regret when lives are lost. The first time Tarkin appeared onscreen, he killed millions (if not billions) and annihilated an entire planet, with its history, art, ecosystems, culture and people.
Rebels went out of its way to show the difference between Yularen and the Jedi by having him be blindly supportive of the fascist government that is responsible for the death or enslavement of billions (the Jedi, the Wookies, the Lasat, the Geonosians, the Mandalorians, innocent Force-sensitive children, people of occupied planets like Lothal, workers like Tseebo turned into cyborgs for efficiency, Mining Guild slaves, freaking Alderaan), to the point that Yularen was an ISB officer actively trying to root out traitors to the Empire, when at the exact same time surviving Jedi like Kanan and Ezra were putting their lives on the line daily for others and Obi-Wan was protecting the galaxy’s greatest hope.
The narrative went out of its way to tell us people like Yularen and Tarkin - the serious military guy who is simply following orders, and the actual monster who orders the death of millions without batting an eye - were nothing like the Jedi.
The Jedi supported a corrupt Republic? Well, they tried to hold its leader accountable for all his thousands of crimes when others went on to gleefully embrace the new authoritarian state and to actively make it worse than it already was. They put their lives on the line protecting civilians like the Lurmen, the Twi’Leks, the Mon Calamari and the Togruta of Kyros. They put themselves in danger time and time again for their men, something we never see any Imperial officer do. Even professional, collected Kallus, who gets a redemption arc, threw a stormtrooper to his death in a fit of rage after getting sassed for letting the Jedi escape (s1ep1).
There is room for moral nuance, and the Jedi weren’t without their faults and failures. They were, however, good. Star Wars showed us what evil looked like, and the line between the two was never not impossible to cross, but it was never blurry.