Talk:Qrow's Team/@comment-26838620-20150730194524/@comment-4010415-20150731121943

Apathy can contribute to the damage done by those who treat the Faunus like shit.

As much as it's probably a bad idea to bring this up, the best way I can explain what I mean is by drawing a comparison to current events.

I recently saw a social experiment that was performed in a restaurant by three actors - one was a black man, and the other two were white men dressed as cops/security guards. They put on an act where the black man was pestered, harassed, and then outright beaten by the white officers in the middle of the restaurant. None of the bystanders did anything about it. Many continued eating their meals, some looked at what was happening, some looked away. Not one person stood up for him.

I have seen and heard quite a few black people state that they feel that many white people care more about animals' lives than they do about the lives of black people, and I can see why they feel that way. This is especially considering how many white people across the country have been quick to come up with excuses for why unarmed black people deserve to be killed by police. People are even quick to say "If you don't want to be bothered by police, then don't break the law!" Yet a black man was shot in Walmart for picking up a toy gun, a 7-year-old black girl was shot in the head while sleeping on her couch, and Freddie Gray got killed in a rough ride gone wrong when there was nothing to arrest him for (the so-called "illegal" pocket knife was later found to be perfectly legal).

If the general public of Vale ignores the Faunus and is apathetic about cases of violence and unfair treatment toward Faunus, then that hurts the Faunus as much as the acts of violence and unfair treatment that the Faunus face.