Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27144409-20160226002630/@comment-25936766-20161030015754

KNN005 wrote:

1 -I just didn't think the show wanted to head down that rabbit hole.

2-It's always been easier to talk about discrimination with cute demi-human animal people than with Latinos or Africans.

3-If that's what it takes to get the word out that prejudices and racism and discrimination and being a bystander during those acts in wrong, then I'm all for it.

4 - I get that Emerald feels she owes Cinder. But just like with Adam having a shitty life not making it okay for him to kill people. I can't give Emerald a pass for being Cinder's lapdog out of gratitude. 1-Well, it must, as Blake's whole backstory, and the White Fang in itself, is tied to it.

2-When it comes to different sentient species, let me mention this quote: "Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because—what with trolls and dwarfs and so on—speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green."

That's why. When it's Human-on-Human discrimination, it's White people ganging up on Black/Latino/Asian/etc, and vice-versa. When it's Human-on-Alien discrimination, racism between human races becomes a thing of the past.

3-Prejudice, racism, discrimination......towards whom? Every race alienates every other race. Equality and understanding won't be reached until all sides choose to accept the others. Just like the majority needs to accept the minority, so must the minority accept the majority and the other minorities.

4-You are comparing apples and oranges. Adam is a racist extremist and terrorist, whose radical ideas I assume are born from years of supposed discrimination + indoctrination within the WF.

Emerald, meanwhile, was a street rat. No place to live, no food to eat but what she could steal, shunned by others for being a homeless thief.....Then comes Cinder, who gives her a place to live, feeds her, etc. Cinder pulled Emerald out of that life in the streets, and Emerald remains loyal because of it.

Adam's like a kid that got bullied to the point they want to go shoot everyone at their school. Emerald's like a homeless orphan who got adopted and taken care of.