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As much as I enjoy slugging it out in "Did the Equalists Have a Valid Cause?" Round Infinity+1, it's hard to get started when your examples are flawed. Eric Robert Rudolph was a lone wolf. He wasn't part of a well-organized domestic terrorist movement, let alone one that intended to overthrow its government.
And Amon was no MLK, and Tarrlok's actions, while vile, aren't comparable to the police brutality in the race riots of the 1960s. It's a bad analogy. Non-benders aren't lynched in the streets, or banned from marrying benders, or relegated to certain professions. Hiroshi Sato wasn't slapped down for "rising above his station." Far from it. He was a well-know, well-respected member of the community... until he helped fund and supply a hate group in the violent rebellion that indiscriminately bombarded a civilian population from the air and mutilated POWs.
The Equalists aren't civil rights activists. They're the Klan.
Which isn't to say there isn't inequality in Republic City. There is, and a hell of a lot of it. But it's economic inequality, the kind of thing that cuts across the bender/non-bender divide. People like Mako and Bolin? They're the victims of that untamed capitalist system.
Republic City has no social safety net, no unions, no public schools, seemingly minimal regulation of business, and crime is so rampant in the streets that alternate power structures have arisen in the form of the Equalists and Triads.
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