Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-3146930-20140708014442/@comment-3146930-20140708212042

trai·tor (noun)-a person who betrays a friend, country, principle, etc

Generally when talking about a traitor, we are talking about a comrade or teammate that goes over to the side actively opposing them or simply someone that betrays someone else. Good or evil has nothing to do with it, as if someone in Group-A leaves their group and joins Group-Z, two groups that hate each other, they are still a traitor to Group-A no matter which group is "evil." Think democrats and republicans; if I left my party and joined another, I would be a traitor to my original party.

As far as those mentioned before, Beacon in the show is considered the default-Good Side. Anyone going to Beacon is at least aligned with the side of good, even if the character is a jerk ( *cough* Cardin *cough* ). Most of the new characters that seem to be on the good side or allies with the good guys so far have pretty much all been accused of being traitors and secretly working for or with Cinder and/or the White Fang; our default-Bad Side.

Just to clear something up in your post, but only the original goal of the White Fang was equality. The more violent and willing to attack White Fang apparently plan on ridding the world of humans completely. I say this because when Weiss says that they are trying to wipe out humanity, Blake does not disagree with her and only says they are "very misguided," instead of saying that Weiss was wrong. Even if Cinder knows something or has some big plan set up, the fact that she is working with criminals and a terrorist group kind of take away credibility that her side is in the right.