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I'm curious, now. Was the Schnee family's treatment the cause of the faunus'/White Fang's current unrest, or is the Schnee's treatment of faunuses the result of the War, as a sort of retaliation towards the faunus? Or both, like it was bad to begin with but only became worse?

That then also brings into question the duration of the Schnee family "dynasty". How long have they been around? Were they always Faunus-hating or is that a more recent development? And is the Schnee family's treatment of faunuses even considered particularly "bad" in comparison to how other people treat faunuses? We have yet to see Weiss actually kick around and make fun of faunuses like Team CRDL has; perhaps in her view, they are (or at least, she is) being lenient towards the faunus, which might explain her reaction to Blake in the first episode -- she wasn't trying to deny what her family is doing, she's been taught that the way they are treating the faunus is being nice (by letting them live?).