User blog comment:Gundam Legilis/Penny For Your Thoughts: Is Vale and all of Remnant Racist?/@comment-25555436-20160214011559/@comment-26018514-20160214065417

I agree with Live

FatmanFalling made at least one assumption in that video that is not inherently correct

He posits that the FRR began 72(80, -3 for the wars turning point, and -5 for the violent turn) years prior and that 80 years is a long time to address racism after a war of oppression, however, what we truly know that the FRR started at least 8 years ago, likely at least 9. We don't even truly know that faunus were even around 80 years ago(vagueness as to their origins makes this point sadly valid) let alone were oppressed.

We have only to look at American history... you know, that country that fought for freedom from taxation(oppression) over 200 years ago and barely addressed racism ~60 years ago to realize how far off even 72 years would be from being beyond real world analogies.

Further, he posits the words "this must seem like ancient history to you", said by a history professor as being a long time ago. Now lets look at basic math:

Students are typically enrolled at ~17 Beacon is a supposedly a 4 year college.... in other words, the professor is addressing 17-21 year olds when stating "this must seem like ancient history to you". Honestly, as a teen, anything 10 years back could fit this description, especially if you are talking before a child develops it's first long-term memories ~ age 4-5.

If we assume Blake was there at the beginning of the protests(which she stated she was) then the FRR was less than 17 years ago, regardless of when the great war was.

As live stated, terrorism is fully capable of self-propagating, provided that the proper stimulus exists at one time. For all we know(and most likely given evidence) the faunus are currently enjoying the most freedoms they have ever had... it just isn't and never feels like "enough" because who ever wants to endure such a transition towards equality?