• In the third season of the legend of korra, a group of people try to get rid of a monarchy (which is long established as especially unequal and oppressive) in favor of self government. They also try to get rid of the avatar, because she is an infallible being with incredibly outsized power. I love the avatar universe and get how they needed to fight them, but the group wasn’t wrong

    •  ltxrtquq   ( @ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml ) 
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      Even the first season had Amon, the guy that wanted equality between benders and non-benders. At one point we’re even shown that power was cut to a predominantly non-bender neighborhood, and when people went outside to protest to get their power turned back on, they were all rounded up and arrested. Afterwards, when Korra goes and tries to get the people that were arrested set free, she’s told

      All equalist suspects are being detained indefinitely. They’ll be freed if and when the task force deems them no longer a threat.

      Just in case it wasn’t clear enough by that point that non-benders were treated as second class citizens.

      • All of the LoK villains were basically correct, and had to be caricatures of their stated beliefs in order to be villains. Amon was one of the better ones IMO though. Zaheer is too unrealistic

    • They also try to get rid of the avatar, because she is an infallible being with incredibly outsized power.

      Did autocorrect change “fallible”? Because otherwise it makes the opposite point.