History Headscratchers / TheLegendOfKorraEqualists

* The argument that the Equalists are right forgets one thing: Even though the Equalists ''do'' have legitimate grievances and ''were'' founded in response to very real problems, their actions directly contradict whatever point they have. They want to fight oppression of nonbenders by benders, and yet they do exactly the same to benders AND non-benders once they've taken over Republic City, albeit with technology instead of bending. Even before that, they've done stuff like: Attacking non-benders who aren't with them (e.g. electrocuting Shiro), sabotaging the city and tying up emergency services (what happens if someone has a medical emergency and can't access medical services, or if criminals take advantage of the chaos to commit crimes?), trying to blow up a stadium full of innocents, kidnapping and de-bending innocent benders, and the crowner: ''attempting to wipe out Airbending despite its practitioners suffering worse than anyone else at the hands of bending, '''to the point where it was rendered near-extinct via genocide less than two centuries ago'''''. In other words, what is '''effectively a second attempt at genocide'''. Amon is also explicitly stated to have been driven by a subconscious lust for power in addition to his sincere beliefs in founding the Equalists, and it shows: Instead of eliminating oppression entirely, the Equalists end up ''redirecting'' that oppression, towards benders and non-benders not with them alike. In other words, it was a change in name in rhetoric, but with the same underlying power structures.

** Exactly. Even though the Equalists ''do'' have legitimate grievances and ''were'' founded in response to very real problems, their actions directly contradict their arguments. They wanted to fight oppression of nonbenders by benders, and yet they do exactly the same to benders AND non-benders once they've taken over Republic City, albeit with technology instead of bending. Besides, any point they had would be destroyed by ''attempting to wipe out Airbending despite its practitioners suffering worse than anyone else at the hands of bending'', i.e. '''effectively attempting genocide a second time'''. Instead of eliminating oppression entirely, the Equalists end up ''redirecting'' that oppression, towards benders and non-benders not with them alike. A change in name in rhetoric, but with the same underlying power structures.

* The argument that the Equalists are right forgets one thing: Even though the Equalists ''do'' have legitimate grievances and ''were'' founded in response to very real problems, their actions directly contradict whatever point they have. They want to fight oppression of nonbenders by benders, and yet they do exactly the same to benders AND non-benders once they've taken over Republic City, albeit with technology instead of bending. Even before that, they've done stuff like: Attacking non-benders who aren't with them (e.g. electrocuting Shiro), sabotaging the city and tying up emergency services (what happens if someone has a medical emergency and can't access medical services, or if criminals take advantage of the chaos to commit crimes?), trying to blow up a stadium full of innocents, kidnapping and de-bending innocent benders, and the crowner: ''attempting to wipe out Airbending despite its practitioners suffering worse than anyone else at the hands of bending, to the point where it was rendered near-extinct via genocide less than two centuries ago''. In other words, what is '''effectively a second attempt at genocide'''. Amon is also explicitly stated to have been driven by a subconscious lust for power in addition to his sincere beliefs in founding the Equalists, and it shows: Instead of eliminating oppression entirely, the Equalists end up ''redirecting'' that oppression, towards benders and non-benders not with them alike. A change in name in rhetoric, but with the same underlying power structures.

[[folder: What the heck, townspeople?!]]
* More about the public that supports them than the Equalists themselves, but...are all the people at those rallies supposed to be sociopathic or something? All of them do nothing but stand there and cheer as the Equalists tie innocent people up and rob of something inherent to them - this would be like blind people cutting out the eyes of people who can see and then laughing and cheering about it. These sound like the most evil, twisted people I've ever heard of!