Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27234079-20190413013142/@comment-25936766-20190519140555

0551E80Y wrote: Well, What I want to happen in RWBY is to end the prejudice, discrimination What prejudice. What discrimination. 6 Volumes in and we have barely 4 cases of racism, 3 of which are questionable because:

1) Cardin is an equal-oportunity bully who spends 98% of his screentime bullying on a human, not to mention being meant to be an asshole.

2) Roman is a wanted criminal, an asshole and kind of a sadist as the cherry on top.

3) The nameless ramen chef in Mistral has serious mental illnesses. Or at least that's the impression one gets when he tries to kill Qrow right there and then just because he knew a guy who owed him money.

The last one and only one that "works" is the random villagers shooting at Ghira and co. in the Adam trailer just for trying to pass by the village. And they still feel more like bandits than normal villagers anyway.

And as for prejudice, we have seen none. We've never seen any actual cases of Faunus getting the short end of the stick for being Faunus, nor Faunus being given far more than they deserve just for being Faunus.

and even slavery of the Faunus What slavery. There is no slavery of Faunus anywhere. Blake just says the SDC uses "controversial labor forces", which is a very different thing from "has Faunus slaves".

Not that you should listen to Blake anyway on the topic. She grew up in the White Fang, and Adam was her mentor. She is super biased on the subject.

And don't bother trying to bring up the SDC WoR. It says nothing about Faunus Slavery either, Qrow just mentions "cheap labor and dangerous working conditions", which has nothing to do with race, discrimination, or prejudice.

and they get their equal rights across the entire planet They already have equal rights. They've had equal rights for multiple decades. You're just mistaking the word Rights for the word Treatment.

and I believe part of the road to that goal, is for Atlas to fall. If you honestly believe that, you're stupid. Atlas falling wouldn't change anything at all. Do you think that if the United States was burned to ashes and every person in it was annihilated, racism and sexism and discrimination towards LGBT+ people and etc. would stop existing, or even get better? Well, news flash, it wouldn't. At all. The US is gone, the rest of the world keeps spinning, and discrimination and prejudice isn't exclusive to a single nation so it will keep existing. The world has many cultures and the people aren't going to be even slightly more inclined to change their views and opinions just because the US is gone. And the same goes for Atlas. Atlas falls, nothing changes. Faunus will keep being discriminated or accepted where they are discriminated or accepted already. No one will be more willing or less willing than before to accept them as equals and treat them as such. Unless Atlas falls because of Faunus. Then the world will hate them, because Atlas falling would have serious economic consequences around the world, which can go as far as affecting the safety of people in other Kingdoms, and if that's the Faunus's fault, do the math.

The way the elite spoke about other people that angered Weiss, highlights why Atlas needs to be destroyed. Are you seriously so stupid that you would be happy to destroy a nation just because 1, ONE person in it is an openly-uncaring asshole? And a person who is a trophy wife, just someone meant to stand there and look pretty. Hell, her husband was trying to stop her (weakly and uselessly, but he tried) from saying the shit she did. In fact, since you mention "the way the elite spoke about other people", what about the one talking about Mantle, and the economic disparity between it and Atlas? The one who even said "the bigger issue is our society as a whole" after Jacques said his Faunus miners get the same salary as the rest of the staff. And on top of that, your reason for destroying Atlas is just a member of "the elite". Assuming all those businessmen and rich guys at the party would share her opinion is already dumb, but even if they somehow all did? That's still a minority of the people of Atlas. You cannot judge millions by the actions of a dozen, that's childish.