Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25641997-20140803061618/@comment-25641997-20140804043359

Personally, I don't see how motivation matters. Regardless of why, I feel like racism is racism. Weiss has more justification than most, and her racism doesn't stem from her pure hatred of the faunus as much as it does for her hatred and fear of the White Fang and the faunus only by association, but she still discriminates. You make a good point; Weiss must have some understanding on a certain level that not all faunus are liars, thieves, and murderers and that it's unfair to generalize them. Her acceptance of Blake (an to a lesser extent, Sun, seeing as how she hasn't turned him in to the police) is proof of that. But a larger part of her refuses to accept it due to how she was raised and what values she was brought up with. Motvation and justification aside, Weiss' behavior in volume 1 was no better than that of Cardin's. In episode 15, she used Sun's species as a basis for her views on him. Yes, he did break the law, and if that was the only reason for her actions and opinions on him, I could understand. But it wasn't. She made insulting comments about his species, not his actions. She was judging him because he was a faunus. And she didn't make these remarks accidentally. She knew full well what she was saying and why she said it. It's not just her behavior that's discriminatory; it's her mindset. Her beliefs, no matter how much justification she has for them, are still discriminatory.