Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20140725003808/@comment-24994749-20140730034643

The problem is, Weiss enjoys her social status and does not acknowledge the bad things the SDC does:

Blake: "It's heiress, actually." "Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee Dust Company. One of the largest producers of energy propellant in the world."

Weiss: (smiling smugly) "Finally! Some recognition!"

Blake: "The same company infamous for its controversial labor forces and questionable business partners."

Weiss: (getting angry again as Ruby chuckles) "Wha- How dare you- The nerve of... Ugh!"

When Velvet is being bullied, out of team RWBY she is the only one who doesn't show a disproving attitude, she just continues to work on her fingernails.

Supporting Cardin's racism in class would have been a poor choice considering she works to be the perfect student and the teacher was supporting the not-racist approach to the class.

During the Stray, she first refuses to acknowledge the possibility of some other criminal being behind the robbery, she continues to make derogatory comments about the White Fang members that are completely out of place:

"...awful bunch of degenerates!"

"...I simply don't care for the criminally insane."

"...the White Fang are a bunch of scum."

... and then switches to insulting the faunus in general:

"Those Faunus only know how to lie, cheat, and steal."

And there she was speaking about the faunus in general because even Yang answers to her: "That's not necessarily true..."

She then makes derogatory comments about Sun that are also completely out of place. Yes, he broke the law but that doesn't make him any less of a person and she has no evidence to label him:

"...monkey-tailed rapscallion?" (describing him solely through his one animal feature when you know 'animal' is the in-universe racist term to reefer to faunus is a deal.)

"...filthy..."

"Would you like me to stop referring to the trash can as a trash can? Or this lamppost as a lamppost?"

"...he'll probably join up with those other Faunus in the White Fang!"

Also, I can't stress this enough, but she never lists being a direct target of the White Fang, and one would think, given how detailed her account of their crimes against her family are, she wouldn't miss the chance to point out an attempt against her life:

"My grandfather's company has had a target painted across its back for as long as I can remember. And ever since I was a child, I've watched family friends disappear; board members executed. An entire train car full of Dust, stolen."

She states the target is the company.

To add to the racism part, she doesn't limit her distrust to the White Fang or criminals in general but to all the faunus:

"You want to know why I despise the White Fang? Why I don't particularly trust the Faunus?"

Ruby tried to comfort her and she gave her the "fuck off" attitude.

When she speaks about what made her childhood difficult she says:

"...every day, my father would come home, furious. And that made for a very difficult childhood."

Regardless of what the White Fang or any other criminal group might have done to the SDC, Mr. Schnee had no rights to take out his anger on his daughter.

And finally, the White Fang went violent 5 years before the events of Volume 1, so, their violent attacks to Weiss family began when she was 12. So either she is blaming them for things other violent groups did or her father lost his shit to pacific protests and boycotts.

Also, after Sun and Blake help save a cargo form her family company all she has to say to Sun is:

"I'm still not quite sure about how I feel about you!"

And, mind you, she had to catch herself from calling him something else.

Weiss isn't an inherently bad person, but don't try to tell me she wasn't racist during Volume 1.

I'm actually looking forward to this volume to see how she interacts with Sun's team and team CFVY and to see meat her father and see them get in an argument about faunus.