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I will never forgive them naming those two characters Gyatso and Tenzin (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Nor the nazi apologia either

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

But like... they didn't do anything wrong? They were pacifists who lived on big mountain and meditated

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

No they didn't do anything wrong which is sort of the critique. The show depicted the other nations as having their flaws and problems, but was ultimately still respectful which is good. The water nation was sexist, the Earth Nation was oppressively, the fire nation is racist and propagandized.

But the air nomads? There was no real lesson or nuance there, they were just depicted as this perfect, lost culture. Which would be fine if they just didn't want to get into that, but by naming people after the Dali Lama they are sort of making it political, and essentially endorsing feudal Buddhism and connecting it to the real world.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

Sorry I'm not accusing you of being an air nomad propagandist, I'm saying if someone described a culture like that to me IRL, I would automatically assume they were selling me bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

No you can accuse me of being an air nomad propagandist, they were a glorious and prosperous nation before the fire nation attacked

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Also if I knew anything about Avatar then I think a Fire Nation Stan who attacks the entire plot of Avatar as propaganda would be a great bit account