Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20151106142232/@comment-1458758-20151109051242

SpiritedDreaming wrote:

Again, with the cutting parts off him. How bad do you think the discrimination against faunus is? Literally nothing in the show shows that anyone would cut parts of a Faunus simply out of discrimination - heck, it's even implied that the White Fang are kind of exagerating the situation. It's like the African-American vs White American situation at most, really. They were refused basic rights, people refused to interact with them and called them names, and the most that happened was someone got shot, or another person got bashed. But they never tortured each other, which is what the cutting of the ears would do. Okay Spirited, I agree with everything you said, but dude this is a bloody awful comparison, as numerous black people got intimidated, beaten and killed even up to and after the civil rights era in some seriously awful ways such as lynchings, shootings and I remember one particularly famous case where a young fella was beaten to death so badly he was completely unrecognisable. You're right that the White Fang movement has a lot of parallels with the Civil Rights movement in America, but it's distinctly lighter in tone. Just because you can't connect the history with the exact word 'torture' doesn't mean that's not basically what happened in some cases and worse.