Zeon is complicated and I have argue sooo fucking much with redditors that thinking of them as a 1:1 nazi parallel is awful media literacy, just cause Ghiren Zabi compares himself to Hitler doesnt make Zeon nazis, even under the Zabis. There are too many significant differences, like the anti imperialism, contolism makes sense. Class stratification is EXTREME in the UC, the show doesnt shine a light on it for the most part, but if you pay attention, it’s there. Most people live in space already but are either tourist destinations or a productive periphery to benefit earth, and then looking at scenes that take place on earth, it seems people are members of the government, higher ups in corporations or members of the military and then the rest seem hella poor. Also if you’re gonna say Zeon are just space nazis then you’re also sating the show is doing some major clean Wermect bullshit. Zeon is a combination of a lot of things
Zeon is definitely complicated(sign of well written media). I generally hold the view that while the Zabis are quite bad and do some actually heinous shit(Operation British), I don’t think the Earth Federation are any better in that regard, and it’s more likely that the people in space would be in a better situation in time if Zeon won the OYW than the Federation winning.
Also I think another thing people drawing the 1:1 comparison miss is that Nazism(and Fascism in general) is centered around blaming a minority while upholding the supremacy of a group, which Zeon doesn’t really do. They adopt some fashy aesthetics but they don’t introduce eugenics or ethnic-ultranationalism.
Zeon is complicated and I have argue sooo fucking much with redditors that thinking of them as a 1:1 nazi parallel is awful media literacy, just cause Ghiren Zabi compares himself to Hitler doesnt make Zeon nazis, even under the Zabis. There are too many significant differences, like the anti imperialism, contolism makes sense. Class stratification is EXTREME in the UC, the show doesnt shine a light on it for the most part, but if you pay attention, it’s there. Most people live in space already but are either tourist destinations or a productive periphery to benefit earth, and then looking at scenes that take place on earth, it seems people are members of the government, higher ups in corporations or members of the military and then the rest seem hella poor. Also if you’re gonna say Zeon are just space nazis then you’re also sating the show is doing some major clean Wermect bullshit. Zeon is a combination of a lot of things
Zeon is definitely complicated(sign of well written media). I generally hold the view that while the Zabis are quite bad and do some actually heinous shit(Operation British), I don’t think the Earth Federation are any better in that regard, and it’s more likely that the people in space would be in a better situation in time if Zeon won the OYW than the Federation winning.
Also I think another thing people drawing the 1:1 comparison miss is that Nazism(and Fascism in general) is centered around blaming a minority while upholding the supremacy of a group, which Zeon doesn’t really do. They adopt some fashy aesthetics but they don’t introduce eugenics or ethnic-ultranationalism.