Talk:Neopolitan/@comment-174.77.45.177-20150722022559/@comment-4010415-20150723225733

Peaceful protesting and boycotts are a questionable method. On one hand, American history has proven that it can work if it's on a big enough scale and the situation is right. One reason that the Civil Rights Movement worked so well is because, prior to the movement, black people fearfully complied with white people, stayed out of white people's paths, and avoided doing anything that may upset white people. The threat of a lynching constantly loomed over their heads, and they did their best to avoid becoming a victim. Throughout the Civil Rights Movement, black people stood firm and took any and all attacks white people threw their way. They kept getting back up and continuing their protests, marches, and boycotts, no matter what happened. Their message was "We are not afraid of you anymore." It gave them a feeling of empowerment and shocked white people.

Given that Faunus don't seem to be facing threats of lynching or being arrested for so much as looking at a human, we have to wonder if there's anything in their situation that could cause peaceful protesting to work. If not, you also have to consider the fact that the oppressors often ignore the protests being performed by the oppressed. News media is often controlled by the oppressors, and the people of the oppressors' race/species tend to only pay attention to news delivered to them by others of their own race/species. If the news makes an effort to ignore peaceful protests, the oppressed have to work harder at being seen and heard.

That said, violent methods tend to get the news media's attention because there's a dangerous situation, as well as the fact that the oppressors want to point and say "Look, see what I mean?! They're animals!" Therefore, since violent methods get heard while peaceful methods get silenced and ignored, it's not uncommon for the oppressed to become frustrated and believe that the only way to be heard is violence. Blake said herself, the new violent way of the White Fang was actually working.

In all honesty, I think one of their best bets is for Weiss to take charge of the Schnee Dust Company and work in cooperation with Blake to begin campaigning for relations between humans and Faunus to be repaired. Unfortunately, that's years away, especially since Weiss has taken up a career as a huntress.