Yeah, both it and Airbender are very political shows, but they don't have any political thesis beyond "maintain the status quo, don't hurt people". Airbender shows that the Fire Nation indoctrinates children in schools with nationalist propaganda, but then Zuko takes over and everything is fine I guess.
Its fucking wild that the characters who are rehabilitated are Varrick, the war-profiteering capitalist who started a war for money, and in the comics, Kuvira, the fascist who apparently set up camps for waterbenders and firebenders. Zaheer, who wanted to tear down the class divides and killed the Earth Queen, was imprisoned for life, but Kuvira got house arrest with her family. That's not a joke.
Also a bit muddled because Varrick, the war profiteering capitalist, was the money backing the Equalist movement along with the industrialist Hiroshi Sato (Asami’s father).
Both of them get rehabilitated, while Amon does not. The crazy communist was evil, but his cynical capitalist backers were just confused???
Yet another bit of vintage anti-communism slipping in, it was a common line of attack by the West against the USSR that it wasn’t real socialism but was funded by the cynical rich Jewish bankers (for some inexplicable 5 head reason).
Yeah, both it and Airbender are very political shows, but they don't have any political thesis beyond "maintain the status quo, don't hurt people". Airbender shows that the Fire Nation indoctrinates children in schools with nationalist propaganda, but then Zuko takes over and everything is fine I guess.
Its fucking wild that the characters who are rehabilitated are Varrick, the war-profiteering capitalist who started a war for money, and in the comics, Kuvira, the fascist who apparently set up camps for waterbenders and firebenders. Zaheer, who wanted to tear down the class divides and killed the Earth Queen, was imprisoned for life, but Kuvira got house arrest with her family. That's not a joke.
Also a bit muddled because Varrick, the war profiteering capitalist, was the money backing the Equalist movement along with the industrialist Hiroshi Sato (Asami’s father).
Both of them get rehabilitated, while Amon does not. The crazy communist was evil, but his cynical capitalist backers were just confused???
Yet another bit of vintage anti-communism slipping in, it was a common line of attack by the West against the USSR that it wasn’t real socialism but was funded by the cynical rich Jewish bankers (for some inexplicable 5 head reason).