Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-34633327-20171201215836/@comment-24994749-20171205172702

BenRG wrote: You'd be surprised how easily a bully can get off consequences for what is common assault by saying: "Hey, I was only fooling around! They shouldn't be so sensitive!"

There is a reason for this in narrative terms, I think. It is my belief that the tacit tolerance of anti-Faunus racism at the highest levels and most overt forms was part of the 'returning darkness' to which Salem aluded in the prologue to v1x01. It was a sign that the light and order of the social structure Ozpin was trying to create was beginning to collapse (if it ever had any real strength in the first place) and that Salem had sensed in this increasing discord and darkness her chance to strike. I suppose it's different everywhere. You couldn't get away with as little as pulling from someone's clothes where I attended. And even less strict schools I know of have zero tolerance to any form of assault.

The biggest difference among schools being the willingness of teachers/preceptors to physically intervene in a fight. But I don't think I have ever heard of the victim getting a suspension while the bully got away.

That said, I do like your theory there.