Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-6493589-20150619172544/@comment-25555436-20150627030440

Mercen-X wrote: Biased personal experience is no excuse for pigeon-holing an entire culture as deviant riffraff. Normal has nothing to do with it. Like it or not, her behavior was racist. Note she also said nothing when Velvet was being bullied (and, in fact, went right back to examining her perfect fingernails). As for there not being discrimination in RWBY: CRDL and Roman's behavior is enough out-and-out discrimination to show it exists. Most discrimination is subtle, unspoken, inherent... it's not always about deliberately being unfair to people, hurting them, etc.

The White Fang would have no reason to exist if there wasn't discrimination in the world. Just because it is not as "pronounced" in Vale, doesn't mean it is absent. 1-Whether it's a excuse or not is irrelevant. The fact is, personal experience can form the bias and views of a specific community, over any other facts. Weiss's only interaction with Faunus in her childhood was by them trying to kill her or her family and friends and workers. While she knows not all of them are like that, that's the only kind of Faunus she has truly seen throughout her life, which is why her initial views were so generalizing.

Another example can be found in my many wonderful critics towards Tumblr. I think they are mostly idiots, manchilds, dumb sensitive kids and politically-correct hypocrites that think they know everything but know less than Jon Snow. And only accept special people, if you are normal you are a devil to them. Disagree with them, point out anything, you'll be Lucifer to them.

Generalizing? Yes. Are all of them like that? Nope. But 100% of the Tumblrites I've seen in all my life were just like that. And as such, that has forged my views on the whole community(ies), even if I generalize too much.

2-.....Ok, honest question: Are you dumb? If you see a violent, Obviously Evil man that may well be a Devil In Plain Sight kick a dog, does this mean all men kick dogs for no reason? Hell no.

Roman is a criminal, he's expected to say things like that. Cardin is a bully, bullies make racist insults all the time when they don't know any better ones. These 2 don't truly show there's a discrimination because they are the kind of person that's expected to be racist. We haven't been shown discrimination, at all.

As for the WF, here's this thing: Conversion-through-propaganda. The WF used to be peaceful, they made protests so the equality between Humans and Faunus went from "okay, we won't slave you, but we won't pat your back" to "what's up bros?".

But then, a new leader rised. It's left a bit vague, but it's perfectly possible that it was a Coup. A man/woman rised by killing the previous leader and taking it's place. The new leader is racist, despises humans. As such, it doesn't want equality, it wants an inversion of the past status. But if there's equality, how will you get your people on your side? The mighty power of lies and manipulation.

By twisting the truth, lying, and manipulating "facts" before showing them to the other WF members, he convinced them that there was discrimination where there was none. As a result, they rallied with him, just like he wanted. And then the WF became the terrorists they are now, which leads to constant attacks on humans and the SDC, which will hopefully lead to growing distrust between the Faunus and the Humans and destroy the equality, like the new leader wants.

The new recruits go through the same thing: they are persuaded through lies of the existance of discrimination, by people that themselves were persuaded through lies, so they join the leader's cause. But the truth is, there is no discrimination. It's just a manipulation of facts done by a single person that, discrimination or not, hates humanity and wants to take them down, even if it has to fool it's own people first to do it.

Blake has been a WF member most of her life. Since she was a child. And children are very easy to fool. There is no discrimination, even if there's no love between races yet. Blake just has been fooled by the WF for so long she believes it just like they do even after leaving them.