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Hey! I’m moving too @water-connects-all !

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As auch, Rotxos-sweeetheart will be inactive and eventually deactivated!

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thoughts on accusations of racism and disablism in the avatar universe?

!Possible Avatar:WOTW Spoilers!

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Racism

Just a thing: I’m a white person, and therefore have not experienced racism, but have also never seen it, (witch I think is a good thing?) all I know is what I have read/hear about, so this may be incorrect with regards to racism, I would appreciate any and all comments on that so it can be as actual as possible.

I don’t think there are a lot of scenes with racism in avatar, I think the most racism we see comes from the human towards the Na’vi, such as Quaritch calling them ‘blue aliens’ and selfridges references. Armador claims the natives, the Na’vi are hostile, when in fact it’s the humans.

I think we also see hints of racism when the Metkayina react to the sully family badly, due to them having ‘demon blood’ is that only due to the fact they are part avatar, or would they react like that to any forest Na’vi? From Ronald initial interaction it does seem that it’s due to Jake having formally bean human.

Now if we’re talking about the general complete overview, there are racist overtones, especially in the way both times it has be a white character who is seemingly instrumental in saving the Na’vi, who resemble indigenous tribes.

Disablism

I’m going to split this into two parts.

Physical (I have slight experience with physical disabilities)

I think as far as physical disability goes, avatar is pretty good. They don’t discredit anyone is they are, and they even had a few disabiled characters. The first film is centred around a disabled marine. Also those machines? Those most likely work by reacting and responding to the neurological transmits in the brain (I don’t know science okay?T^T) witch means they could more than likely have been originally made with physical disability’s in mind.

I think that the most physical disablism we see is at the beginning of the first film, and the soldiers reactions to Jakes wheelchair, calling he ‘meals on wheels’ and insinuating he won’t last long due to his disability z

I’m not too sure if there’s any other dísablism of physical disability in avatar, however if I’m wrong please feel free to let me know!

Mental (I have major experience with mental disabilities and am nurodivergant myself)

I don’t think we see any mental disablism in avatar. The only time I could possibly see this is when Kiri is called weird by nameless-dude and Ao’nung, for daydreaming. (Kiri is very neurodivergent coded)

In fact I think avatar would be very progressive towards mental disabilities.

After all, the humans on Pandora are a military run operation, and so all the humans must have experience with some mental disorders, PTSD especially. They most likely have therapists too.

We’re also given the information that the Na’vi are a widely accepting race, so I believe that if a Na’vi was struggling, most (if not all) Na’vi in the community would come together to provide the best help they could, no matter what the problem would be.

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This is just what I know and see, of course it may be wrong, or others may have differing opinions!

If this hurts or upsets anyone from their group, or is completely wrong, please let me know! (If it’s wrong please provide a reason why/example) and I’ll do my best to fix/correct it/myself!

Nik’et💙