Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-25396609-20191207154319/@comment-4010415-20191208014951

ZeoCobra wrote: NVDelta wrote: CRWBY confirmed he was irredeemable through the World of RWBY book, doubt they'd have him join the team. Yes but just when have they really been consistent with characters with the outside material? Everything that is not in the show is subject to change on a dime, and vice versa. I mean they aren't even consistent with the Faunus treatment we been told so much about, but hey they can be high ranking military people in Atlas apparently. 'Because IRONWOOD isn't racist. This does not mean that Faunus discrimination automatically doesn't exist.'

Sorry for the bold text, but I'm getting kind of tired of everyone having to explain this over and over and over again.

Literally all Marrow's rank means is that Ironwood himself does not discriminate against Faunus.

We've been told outside of the show that Ozpin got Lionheart his position as Haven's headmaster specifically because he hoped it would help improve Human-Faunus relations in Mistral, so it's not unreasonable to believe that Ozpin sought to have the headmasters be accepting of Faunus. Ironwood could, at some level, have a desire to see Atlas civilians' views on Faunus become more positive through having Faunus as high ranking soldiers.

Plus, this is kind of a trope, as far as I've noticed. Series that has a race that's discriminated against, oppressed, or otherwise subjugated, and there's a character of that race who got into the military and managed to climb the ranks to help change things from the inside and get people to view their race more positively. It happened in Fullmetal Alchemist (I mean, the manga and the Brotherhood anime). One of Olivier Armstrong's top soldiers is an Ishvalan.

As a side note, if they do show Blake and Yang's perspective of things from before shit hit the fan next episode, I hope it only takes up less than half of the episode. Next episode will be episode 7, and this volume may only have 13 episodes. Best not take up valuable time and kill tension by giving us a 12-minute Bumbleby special and making us wait for more meaty plot until episode 8.