Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20141031002615/@comment-24994749-20141211234654

It's true that we haven't seen much on-screen faunus discrimination aside from team CDLR bullying Velvet with racial slurs and Blake's backstory.

But the other piece on faunus discrimination we have is from V1E1, where the news reports a peaceful Faunus Civil Rights Protest. So let me go over what Civil Rights are cause I feel some people in the fandom don't really grasp the concept:

"Civil rights include the ensuring of peoples' physical and mental integrity, life and safety; protection from discrimination on grounds such as race, gender, national origin, colour, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, or disability; and individual rights such as privacy, the freedoms of thought and conscience, speech and expression, religion, the press, assembly and movement." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_and_political_rights

"Examples of civil rights are freedom of speech, press, and assembly; the right to vote; freedom from involuntary servitude; and the right to equality in public places. Discrimination occurs when the civil rights of an individual are denied or interfered with because of their membership in a particular group or class." http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/civil_rights

That's why I say that the angry mob going over a faunus in Blake's flashback was about to lynch him.

Blake also mentions that shops would refuse to serve faunus. For all we know, going by the definition of Civil Rights above, when Torchwick tell the new recruits to blame the schools for their lot in life, he might have hinted at segregation in classrooms.