Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4010415-20141223120240/@comment-24198837-20150104233922

Yeah, the most important part of showing Racism in a realistic light is to show that racists are still people.

I like what they've done with Torchwick, and the type of racist they've cast him as, but he's a straight-up villian, so I can't really expect him NOT to be racist, and I can't make assumptions about the masses based of the behavior of a single career criminal.

Weiss made a turn-around almost instantly, and I wouldn't even call her racist to begin with, and she had good reasons anyway.

One thing I really liked was Merc and Emme's little chat about Tuckson in Episode 1, where they joked about what type of animal he was. That had subtle hints of racism underscoring it, but RT wasn't shoving it in anyone's face... it just felt natural. Same with EP 12, when Merc says something along the lines of "A lot of Faunus died in those tunnels today..." (I put meaning behind the fact that he chooses to say faunus, and faunus specifically, not people or White Fang members. He groups the White Fang with all faunus) It shows that he doesn't care for their lives, he thinks of them as pawns. Because they're cannon fodder? Maybe, but I like to think it's because he's racist.

Point is, Merc and Emme have other personality traits, like Arkan said. I can believe they're racists because I can believe they're people. I can't believe CRDL's characters because they all have one personality trait - they're asses.