Talk:Anti-bending Revolution/@comment-4662143-20120422215817/@comment-4662143-20120423041245

The problem with this theory is that, if the Equalist protestor is correct, then the benders must comprise the upper class, privileged people in society, while the nonebenders are mostly poor. However, there are, as we see, plenty of bending thugs. In fact, I don't think we've seen a nonbending thug yet. How can this be? People only become gang members if they come from horrible backgrounds and have no options, not if they are high society elites. So, if there are bender gangsters, there must be plenty of nonbender gangsters as well doing the exact same thing. If there are bender extortionist gangsters and nonbender extortionist gangsters, then both groups have their poor populataions. So how can the Equalists honestly paint the struggle as a nonbender revolution against the bender establishment? It seems to me that the Equalists need scapegoat, and paint all benders as a bourgeoise monolith, even though the situation is more complicated.