Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-6493589-20150619172544/@comment-26018514-20150628165625

Christopherweeblingjr wrote:

You ignored the question. How do you know she was completely fine with it? Because she stayed? Yeah, cause it's not like people who try to leave the White Fang get hunted or anything. And the only reason Weiss is racist is because of personal bias. Should we forget the whole point of her character?... Don't be an idiot, I ignored the question because it has absolutely no merit.

She is "fine" with some of it, 1-10% or 100% has no bearing on the issue, leaving an extremist organization is no indication of your politics, it indicates your personal limitations on what you personally want to do.

If someone were in an organization that shunned and wanted to kill you, and someone left it because they were asked to be a suicide bomber, would you expect them to be your friend? Would you hand them a loaded gun, bring your family into the same room, and trust them not to kill anyone just because they decided blowing themselves up wasn't worth it? Hell no, because it proves nothing about their politics.

This entire argument has sprung from considering "silent" racism(no-one attempting to stop the bullies), and racist actions by those who are justified in showing prejudice(Weiss, Blake), as well as those who we expect to be racist(criminals, bullies) as acceptable existing proof of racism in RWBY, this is the scenario we are talking about, one where we have completely removed a morale grey area to fit Weiss on the scale, the argument is with the gray area neither are racist, yet without it both of them are, welcome to the conversation.

We have no evidence there were Humans on that train, Schnee Industries Hires many unskilled Faunus laborers for dangerous working conditions, we can expect maybe 1-2 engineers, security personnel, and mechanics/laborers, any of which could be faunus... hell the only truly skilled position should be the engineer, and this would be a relatively dangerous occupation as they need to go outside the walls a lot, fixing tracks when grimm damage them, etc... Adam said nothing along the lines of "spare the Faunus" and she might have been OK with just that...which at their level they easily could have justified, but they didn't.