Since the "colonizer ship" nonsense is finding its way onto my timeline again, I feel like getting on my leftist soapbox for a minute. *Clears throat and grabs megaphone* A class traitor taking up armed resistance against his own nation, which includes - freeing POWs and destabilizing a prison, which is a tool of state violence - tracking down a retired genocider and having him be terrorized by a survivor of one of his campaigns - intercepting a potentially fatal attack in defense of the aforementioned genocide survivor and being seriously wounded because of it is far more politically radical than most mass media, particularly Western mass media, ever gets. And considering that said "colonizer ship" ends up not being canon while the story in question digs its heels into white supremacy*, Zionism'', and general crypto-fascism''' regardless, the double standard is painfully obvious. Also, protip to the incel ship defenders: you should understand the distinction between colonization and imperialism before you start talking like you know anything. But then none of you seem to know that several leftist figures (Engels, Luxemburg, Lenin, Guevara) were class traitors themselves *Katara and Korra are clear cases of brown femme erasure The narrative implicitly and explicitly justifies colonization in the comics and other sequel material Despite its issues with orientalism the original show did conceive of a mythos with some genuinely thoughtful applications of Buddhism and Taoism only to replace it with Western Christian themes and iconography (lions as an evocation of God) LOK's issues with whitewashed character designs and overall worldbuilding, not to mention being even whiter in its casting than the original show was ''the leaked AS movie has a pro-Zionist message, declaring one particular marginalized group as uniquely persecuted and whose concerns supersede all others. Hmm, wonder where else I've heard that one '''The original show's finale frames the life of a genocidal monarch as more important than his nation's victims or even his own subjects Bending eventually becomes outright eugenic rather than an extension of the show's cultures and their relationships with the world, which makes the whole "benders oppressing nonbenders" subplot pretty ugly in its implications All the other neolib nonsense within the narrative falls under this umbrella too
