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>Why so many Jewish bankers?
Because for a ridiculous length of time, Christians banned themselves from moneylending, and frequently refused to give Jewish people jobs (they couldn't own land, couldn't be farmers, were blocked from most trades), meaning they were forced into that (as it turns out, sometimes profitable) job career. And shit just kept on happening like that. Fast forward to America, and Jewish people were blocked from climbing corporate ladders, faced serious problems running for office, and weren't welcome at most investment firms. Even now most banks are clearly not Jewish, but there are a couple (like Goldman Sachs) that have historically had a high percentage of Jewish people running it. Why? Not exactly a tough question: the company was founded by Jewish bankers that were excluded from other firms. The company ended up with a high percentage of one ethnic group that couldn't get work elsewhere. We've been passing on this shit since the damn middle ages.
>Why so many jews in media
Same principle. The media has long had a bad reputation as being "unChristian," and Jewish people faced substantial prejudice if they tried to get "good Christian jobs". It's one of the more idiotic things in the rainbow of bigotry - forcing groups of people into certain jobs by excluding them from others, then going "they're going for those jobs on purpose! Because that's what 'their kind' is good at! Hurr durr!"
>That's the equalist question in a nutshell.
No, it's really not. Because the equalist situation is nothing like the nuanced reality of any real world group's discrimination. It's an incredibly simplified form of scapegoating suitable for a cartoon, and the forces driving it are unique to a fictional world. Benders are not an ethnic group. Benders can have nonbender kids, nonbenders can have Bender kids, and in those situations where only Benders are employed to do something, the reasoning tends to be along the lines of "well hell, find me a nonbender that can throw lightning and I'll gladly give him a job at my power plant". It does tap into our shared memory of real like movements against certain groups of people, but once you start digging it quickly becomes clear the similarities are only skin deep.
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