[ SECRET POST #2530 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2530 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Are you joking. Bending is absolutely a privilege, whether the show characterizes it properly or not. You have a whole group of people who can control the physical nature of reality around them, and another group that can't. It could not be more of a privilege. There are whole jobs that only benders can do, and other jobs that benders can do so much better than non-benders it's barely worth talking about.

Amon was depicted as a rabble-rouser in what I suspect was a semi-unconscious effort to discredit the idea of any Equalist-like movement having legitimate grievances. The whole conversation where the wise old hobo explains that they don't need to worry their pretty little heads about inequality because "down here we got benders and non-benders all livin' together," reeks of "my black friend says I'm not racist," e.g. having a member of an unprivileged class claim to be happy with the status quo as a way to discredit those who are unhappy with it.

ATLA only got away with the gap between benders and non-benders by resolutely refusing to engage the question at all, even though any sane person can see there would be huge, system inequality between the two groups. Legend of Korra decided to engage that inequality, but they did it in the worst, most ham-fisted way possible, first showing us the results of abuses of bending privilege, then basically claiming they hadn't actually happened.

Call me when non-benders can take government-sponsored chi-blocking classes. Until then your argument is predicated on canon's least-believable aspect: That non-benders would not constitute a permanent underclass.