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Look at the name of the Nazi Party: The National ''Socialist'' Workers' Party of Germany. The real Nazis actually talked a ''lot'' about equality in their propaganda, and how the German people were being oppressed by the powerful International Jewish Conspiracy. In fact, just look at real life right wing populists today. Do they claim to be
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Look at the name of the Nazi Party: The National \'\'Socialist\'\' Workers\' Party of Germany. The real Nazis actually talked a \'\'lot\'\' about equality in their propaganda, and how the German people were being oppressed by the powerful International Jewish Conspiracy. In fact, just look at real life right wing populists today. Do they claim to be \"white supremacists\" or anything like that? I\'ve literally never seen a real right winger, even online, who calls himself that. They all claim to be oppressed underdogs who are just trying to defend themselves against powerful and malevolent oppressors (which they might call anything from the \"Deep State\" to the \"Zionist Occupation Government,\" depending on how explicit they want to be).
Real life is not so simple as the \"bad guys\" campaigning as the [[CardCarryingVillain Oppression and Tyranny Caucus]]. Just as real life communists don\'t call themselves the Starvation Party, real fascists and Nazis don\'t call themselves the Supremacist Party. Instead, they\'ll say they\'re the champions of the little guy--Just like the Equalists, who are villains with good writing. As I\'ve said, this is one thing I like very much about \'\'Korra\'\': the series doesn\'t dumb things down (compared to most other cartoons), it gives us bad guys with \'\'realistic\'\' talking points and motivations, rather than having the villains playing EvilerThanThou like Skeletor or Cobra Commander.
(That said, there \'\'are\'\' clear overtones of racial bigotry to Amon\'s rhetoric. When he talks about cleansing the benders of their impurity, this doesn\'t sound very much like Marxism to me, for example.)
For your second paragraph, from what I wrote I very obviously meant that it was the \'\'villains\'\' who \"championed\" their respective ideologies, not the writers, if that was in any way unclear. As I\'ve emphasized repeatedly, the \'\'show\'\' never treats them as anything but villains, it just treats them as vaguely \'\'realistic\'\' villains with reasonably nuanced personalities and plausible motives. Though I don\'t think any of the main \'\'Korra\'\' villains ever actually renounced his or her ideology. Hiroshi Sato would be closest, with him and Asami just not ever mentioning the Equalist issue in their talks in Book 4, so we have no idea how much of his old convictions he still stands by. If I remember correctly, Amon, Unalaq, Zaheer and Kuvira never repented of their philosophies.
As was cautioned before, though, we may be getting off topic. The issue as such isn\'t exactly irrelevant, but I don\'t think it should be the main focus of our discussion here. I\'m sorry if I\'m distracting from the chief point; that wasn\'t really my intention at all when I first mentioned \'\'Korra\'s\'\' relative moral complexity. I just wanted to illustrate an aspect of the show\'s writing compared to which (IMO) the comics so far fall short.
Real life is not so simple as the \"bad guys\" campaigning as the [[CardCarryingVillain Oppression and Tyranny Caucus]]. Just as real life communists don\'t call themselves the Starvation Party, real fascists and Nazis don\'t call themselves the Supremacist Party. Instead, they\'ll say they\'re the champions of the little guy--Just like the Equalists, who are villains with good writing. As I\'ve said, this is one thing I like very much about \'\'Korra\'\': the series doesn\'t dumb things down (compared to most other cartoons), it gives us bad guys with \'\'realistic\'\' talking points and motivations, rather than having the villains playing EvilerThanThou like Skeletor or Cobra Commander.
(That said, there \'\'are\'\' clear overtones of racial bigotry to Amon\'s rhetoric. When he talks about cleansing the benders of their impurity, this doesn\'t sound very much like Marxism to me, for example.)
For your second paragraph, from what I wrote I very obviously meant that it was the \'\'villains\'\' who \"championed\" their respective ideologies, not the writers, if that was in any way unclear. As I\'ve emphasized repeatedly, the \'\'show\'\' never treats them as anything but villains, it just treats them as vaguely \'\'realistic\'\' villains with reasonably nuanced personalities and plausible motives. Though I don\'t think any of the main \'\'Korra\'\' villains ever actually renounced his or her ideology. Hiroshi Sato would be closest, with him and Asami just not ever mentioning the Equalist issue in their talks in Book 4, so we have no idea how much of his old convictions he still stands by. If I remember correctly, Amon, Unalaq, Zaheer and Kuvira never repented of their philosophies.
As was cautioned before, though, we may be getting off topic. The issue as such isn\'t exactly irrelevant, but I don\'t think it should be the main focus of our discussion here. I\'m sorry if I\'m distracting from the chief point; that wasn\'t really my intention at all when I first mentioned \'\'Korra\'s\'\' relative moral complexity. I just wanted to illustrate an aspect of the show\'s writing compared to which (IMO) the comics so far fall short.
