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Finally someone who handles and approaches this topic with nuance 😩 it’s rough out here watching 99% of the fandom oversimplify or misinterpret the writing 😭😭 the lack of media literacy and critical thinking skills is appalling, so I really am glad I found a post that actually takes EVERYTHING about these stories into account and approaches the topic the way you did

“Zaheer, Hama, and Jet all had the right idea with their mindset, they were butchered by the writers to make them seem evil!!!”

Sweetie, that’s called making relatable antagonists. No one relates to one-dimensional, “I’m evil because evil” villains because they don’t represent any realistic thoughts. These three do have the right idea, and they show what happens when the right idea is backed by the wrong actions.

And if it bothers you that the protagonists fought these people, keep in mind none of the good guys necessarily disagreed with their overall sentiment. If you think Aang and company fighting Hama meant they didn’t take her trauma seriously, that’s you oversimplifying, not the writers. Same goes with Korra and Zaheer, or the Gaang with Jet. They went against them because their methods were violent, reckless, and/or counterintuitive to their respective goals.

Sometimes y’all need to check in to see if it’s the writers making things too black-and-white or if it’s you grossly misinterpreting it as that.