Talk:Anti-bending Revolution/@comment-4662143-20120422215817/@comment-174.145.29.65-20120423020453

It has to do with law enforcement and criminals mostly, the majority of the Republic city PD are benders, as are criminals like Lightning Bolt Zolt and the Triple threat triad.

Let's assume you are a member of minority A trying to make an honest living, as a Hot Dog vendor in a city like New York. A group of mobsters comprised mostly of minority B terrorize you because you can't pay them. So you go to the police for help, who are also composed mostly of minority B. They refuse to help you because they take bribes from the minority B monsters. Noone from minority B has helped you so you begin to grow jaded and see all of minority B as evil.

And then a group of people from minority A help you out by fighting off the mobsters and corrupt police. And all they ask in return is for you to discriminate against minority B. Whom they hate as much as you for abusing their power.

That's basically the equalists in a nutshell. They see that the majority of a corrupt system is comprised of a certain group, but instead of going after the corruption they scapegoat a minority and say that only killing off said minority will stop the corruption. Like what Hitler did to the Jews, or what Frollo did to the gypsies in hunchback of Notre Dame.