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Legend of Korra: PANIC!!!! Episode 4 Is Uploaded!!!!
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I believe everybody else has shown that the position of Firelord requires/required being a Firebender.
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regardless, Amon is still wrong
But there probably is more then a little unfairness regarding Benders and non-benders.
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Honestly. I think the more interesting option is if Amon is right. Well intentioned extremists are the best extremists (but still villains). It also makes sense given the context. This is after all the Avatar version of the 1920s, a politically turbulent time (which in the real world featured commies and various fascist groups as the most prominent sources for political unrest).
Apart from the exception that is Sato there really is a lot of Bender Privelege, which is different from oppression.
2) He would be more interesting if he is at least a little bit earnest about his speech and isn't just making a play for power
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I'm not sure why this would be the case because
actually my argument is that bender-ism never existed in the first place
Amon made it up
You're wrong though
But you're basing that on a handful of people out of an entire world population?
At best he made it up the same way we have things like the myth of the welfare queen, or conspiracy theories about secret Muslims/Communists/whatever trying to take over the country
But given the crowd at that rally, a lot of people certainly think there is a problem
It's not unreasonable to think that stratification has intensified in the past decades
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fighting for the rights of the oppressed benders
being forced to do dangerous jobs for ass pay for the fat cat non-bender elite
Saying that benders are doing this dirty job for Non-benders (is it ever stated the power stations are owned by non-benders, if you're thinking about Sato all I can find on him says he is all about the cars) proves that that there is no disparity is really silly.
Every job exclusively done by benders, no matter how dangerous or tedious, means an entire profession that non-benders are completely cut off from.
the bolded would be fair if there were stronger examples of "bender privilege" that weren't just inferences
we're still early in Korra so maybe Amon's argument will be supported later on, but so far benders and non-benders seem to get along as well as they did in Avatar, and exist along varied socioeconomic lines just like they did in Avatar
charismatic people have gotten supporters for bad ideas plenty of times in history, so I don't think the crowd alone is a good support for Amon's argument. If he was right, we'd see more non/bender conflict outside of Equalist fights. guys losing their jobs to benders and such. again, might happen later in the series.
come to me, ye huddled masses
you see, all of your problems are actually caused by benders
those big-nosed greedy benders
Having now watched the entire first series for the fifth time time (and this time within about 15 days) I noticed something in the finale.
So?
Telling people something doesn't mean they'll magically learn how to do it.
calling it: full of berserk-gas.
it is a recurring theme on the show
we have very rarely seen the opposite
I'm not saying Ozai learned how to do it, but he now knows where to look, and can share that information. Give some idealist a goal and it wouldn't be impossible to find.
It IS impossible to find. The turtle is impossible to track and sentient. I don't think he's teaching anyone anything unless he wants to.
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Because 9% think it's too high, and shouldn't be cut! 9% of respondents could not fully
get their arms around the question. There should be another box you can check for, "I
have utterly no idea what you're talking about. Please, God, don't ask for my input."
most of these examples are Equalist-related, who menace benders plenty
the only one I can remember that isn't is the Triads hassling that shopkeeper, but that's just good old fashioned gangs abusing the weak and nothing specific to benders
it would have happened with swords and cannons instead
with
their bending
the weak
who are weak because they have no bending
Some of them might have bending abilities. Just no combat training.
so
you agree?
no, he is weak because he's an old man
Sokka, Mai, Ty Lee have successfully fought against benders despite not being benders because they are not old people who don't know how to fight
ty lee and mai learned their skills at the royal firebending academy for girls, probably not a lot of commoners in there
and sokka spent most of the series at a combat disadvantage until he got a few lessons from the greatest swordfighter in the world
these are not advantages available to common people
it is ridiculous to say that these three outliers invalidate the idea that benders have a huge advantage in combat and use it
it is the conflation of bending and power that is the problem. bending does not automatically give you power
learning to bend takes as much effort as learning any other martial art takes, including chi blocking
which is why stuff like the chi-blocking lessons would be awesome if they weren't explicitly associated with a terrorist organization that wants to eliminate all bending
it's like you're saying hey this corporate executive works just as many hours and just as hard as this coal miner
it is not the same
Sokka had some training from the Kyoshi warriors as well.
That didn't help much though. Mainly because his adversaries after that tended to be "super bad ass warriors" (like Azulas Angels, Combustion Man etc).
If we're going to demonstrate how weak non-bending is compared to bending. As the Blue Spirit Zuko kicked the ass of about a dozen fire warrior soldiers. Later in Zuko Alone he got his ass kicked by a single earthbending thug until he decided to go all "I am Prince Zuko of the fire nation Fear my wrath! RAAAR!".
The only reason the war broke out was because sozin's comet supercharged the firebenders
Ain't no comet that supercharges swords
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