Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25266931-20161223190810/@comment-25266931-20161227033547

I think the reason RT doesn't show more of the Faunus discrimination is because they want to keep things mostly PC and also keep the WF looking like less sympathetic villains.

Think about Deathnote. Light is a dick and because corrupt and powermad in a short amount of time showing that somewhere in him he was always fucked up. But by telling the story from his point of view most of the time your trick fans into liking him, sympathezing with him, even some wanting him to win and kill L. That's what fans do. Especially with pretty boy characters. So as for the WF. If RWBY was told from their point of view and you see all the discrimination and turmoil and pain they go thru. Chances are fans would still hate Adam, but they'd weep when they saw team RWBY easily tossing the WF around. And the fan's would say something like "Geez, all they want is equality, why do they have to lose all the time." It would make them less nameless red shirts to beat on to show off a characters skills or kill time for a season finale, and more like tragic underdogs manipulated by a madman who fed them false promises. And I don't think RT wants them to be tragic underdog. I think they want them to stay in their place as generic run of the mill nameless red shirts for the hero to smack around. That, and something for Blake to gripe about in her episodes until she has her moment when she conquers her issues with herself and escapism.