Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3391158-20170904153455/@comment-25936766-20170907025451

Nikoli the rebel wrote:

Faunus discrimination is bad. Like really, really bad. One scenario is dust miners are whipped until they bleed profusely out of their backs....................They want the scene to be one of those defining moments where the show takes a darker turn. Maybe even gory.............One theory is that when Blake sees actual, brutalizing faunus treatment in Altas/Mantel............

Except they don't need to go even half that far. They don't have to show Faunus being burned on the stake or beaten to a pulp by an army of cops or being mutilated beyond recognition just for having a fluffy tail.

All we're asking, and all they need to do, is simply show actual discrimination and mistreatment of Faunus due to their race. Not from assholes who are expected to do that, but from otherwise normal or nice people.

There are myriads of ways to do it without showing someone beating Faunus with a scourge, with no need for blood or even physical violence. So overall, "the Show isn't mature enough yet" is complete bullshit. Especially when shows that are aimed at young audiences, west and east, have shown Racism (among other "mature" subjects) with no problem.

Not being too inclined to show Racism because "they aren't good-enough writers" is a more believable excuse, but it's not acceptable. If they want to show a subject in the show and nothing prevents them from doing so, the writers shouldn't be afraid of doing so.

Writers must have balls, guts, courage. A writer too afraid to portray the things they love make characters talk about, is like a soldier who paints himself as badass yet is too scared to even grab a pistol. "Fear due to inexperience" is only an excuse for things that aren't strictly important in the work.

If anything, their lack of "experience" on the subject should drive them to do some research at the least, so they'll have an idea of what to do. Hell, Miles and Kerry did just that with Anime when they started making RWBY.