User blog comment:Warmachine375/Why are the Faunus discriminated?/@comment-4010415-20150603092124

Think about it this way... Even after slavery was abolished in the United States, white people felt they were superior to black people. Why? Because they viewed black people as being sub-human. They still referred to black people as animals (Black slaves had been sold as livestock). They even told their children that black people had tails. That was the whole reason one of the methods of protest during the Civil Rights movement was to wear a sign that said "I am a man!" That's also why calling a black person an animal, a monkey, or a coon is considered racist. Those were all ways of putting them down back in the day.

So, let's look at the Faunus. What have we seen and heard so far?


 * They have animal features.


 * Velvet was called a freak by one of Cardin's teammates.


 * Both Cardin and Roman called the Faunus animals ("It's easier to train an animal than it is to train a soldier." - Cardin; "So, why don't you animals pick up the pace?" - Roman), and Roman made rude jokes based around them being animals ("You idiot, this isn't a leash!").


 * We saw an image of a peaceful protest in the news report way back in V1E1, where one of the protestors was holding a sign that said "We are not animals!"

Basically, the basis of people's racism toward Faunus is the fact that many humans consider Faunus to be freaks and animals, and since they're supposedly animals, they're inferior to humans.

Feeling that your race is superior to another leads to racism.