Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-76.98.160.12-20150930101212/@comment-4010415-20151001204723

RT may be on the Internet, but their HQ is in Texas, which is in America. They live in America. Most of the events they attend are in America, while they do have some events they go to in Australia and Europe. Hell, they've even been to an anime con that takes place in a city two hours away from me.

To be honest, right now, I don't think the "They brought this racism on themselves" route would be a very good idea in America, considering the issues that have come up revolving around whether or not there is still lingering racism in this country (which, there definitely is, if you ask me. How else is the KKK still around?).

There's also the fact that RT wants children to be able to watch RWBY, and it wouldn't be a very good message to kids to say "These people feel discriminated against. But you know what? There is no discrimination. They just made everyone hate them." Racism is real, and it is often the result of one race feeling superior over another. If they do what you say, they'll risk putting a message out there that will cause children to misunderstand and invalidate the struggles that real life victims of racism face. Do you really think Miles, whose mother shows RWBY to her students, would want to risk that happening?

Now, how would discrimination against the Faunus spawn from a superiority complex? Simple. Humans feel like they have more humanity than Faunus because Faunus are beast people. Thus, they feel like they're more separate from Grimm than Faunus are. In the volume 1 director's commentary, when Blake was looking at the statue after running away, Miles said something about the conflict between Blake wanting to fight monsters, when she's a beast. I can't remember what he said exactly. I really wish I had gotten through writing up that transcript, and I may start working on it again.