Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20131101010653/@comment-14909251-20131102192846

Zolnir wrote: It doesn't change the fact that she's racist though, even though she's young. After the talk about White Fang, when she referred to Sun she clearly changed her tone about the Faunus and openly insulted a person that she didn't even know.

The biggest offense - and the sentences that broke Blake's self-composure - was Weiss saying, 'Given time he'd probably join up with those scum at the White Fang' or words to that effect.

That is clearly wrong and unforgivable, not to mention incredibly immature. By that logic I can call Weiss too a murderer, a psychopath and even a cannibal because such people exists among humanity, and given time she, would one day turn up as crazy as them too. Does that make sense to you? It very well should, because that's exactly what we call 'close-minded' and 'discriminatory'.

And that ultimately is wrong. I don't care if she hates the White Fang, she has proper justifications at least to not like them. But when she starts grouping Faunus altogether with her hated enemy and believe that they will 'one day turn up as criminals anyway', then that is wrong. Very, very wrong. And I believe that is justified cause for people to hate her for, don't you think so? Sun stowed away on a ship and his attitude about it makes it pretty clear that he is an urepentant criminal. No matter how you look at it, suggesting someone engaged in criminal behavior might join up with some other criminals is not racist, close-minded, or discriminatory. He was being judged for his acts. She was not judging all Faunus as criminals, just the one who obviously was a criminal. You have to understand that Blake was not reacting from a place of objective knowledge either. What she said about Weiss was as much guided by her feeling personally insulted by what was being said about the White Fang. Part of the insult is that Blake knows Weiss is not really off the mark about them. Blake left the group for the very reasons Weiss hates the group. Given how Blake gawked at Sun before he even looked at her and how he reacted to her, it does give the impression that they knew each other. If that is the case then Blake may have gotten really upset at Weiss because her simplistic reasoning was more correct than she realized and was all the more insulting as a result.

Consider her reaction to finding out Blake is a Faunus. She does not even comment on it. It is clear from the outset that she is really only upset about the White Fang. Distrust between members of different racial and ethnic communities in the face or racial or ethnic conflict between them is common and completely within reason. Weiss has been personally exposed to such conflict so her distrust is even more within reason. As a mere matter of survival she has had to consider that any Faunus she encounters could be a threat, not just because of the White Fang, but because many of them would not care about her being a teenage girl when her last name is Schnee. Ruby and Yang seem to have no experience with the Faunus, so they have little trouble being sympathetic to them. Blake likening Weiss to Cardin is quite ignorant on her part. Nowhere do we ever see Weiss going out of her way to mistreat anyone, nor does she exhibit general hostility towards the Faunus. Cardin is a misguided ignorant bully who probably never experienced a moment of real adversity in his life, but Weiss is someone who legitimately fears that any Faunus she meets might try to brutally murder her for something she has no ability to control.