Talk:Equalists/@comment-75.72.206.224-20120730022430

I still can't understand why people don't think nonbenders aren't opressed at all. Benders are a minority but are able to get superior positions in the military, police force, bender specific factory jobs, the fact that the bending gangs, more notibly the triple threat triads who use bending to threaten nonbenders, as seen in episode one. The whole concept of probending is specific to a bender minority. The fact that the council is made up of members representing each bending tribe but there's no nonbender representation.

Also when the task force busted in on the chii blocking training session. Whether or not it be for equalist training, this is just a way for nonbenders to learn how to protect themselves from violence of benders, to be on equal footing. People should have the right to learn how to protect themselves. People were probably killed when they bust in. You generally don't just survive from being frozen from head to toe in ice.

The fact that there are so many equalist members in of itself implies that there is a problem. People just don't join organizations like the equalists for kicks. Maybe a few people but there are so many equalist members that it had to have gotten pretty bad for them to join an extremist group, because there is no one else there or any opportunities for them when they needed it.

You don't need to always show straight up opression every episode for it to be implied that nonbenders are treated worse than nonbenders.