Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27745396-20170905185708/@comment-25936766-20170908022151

It's Racism. Faunus are another Race. Being "another species" is completely irrelevant.

For starters, in fiction, any "species" that is basically Sapient is considered a Race. For examples, Elves and Dwarves. Or multiple Alien species in a Sci-Fy setting. This is no exception, if anything it's even more the rule given how Faunus are about as different from Humans as Elves are.

And second of all, there's the fact that, by definition, Faunus are a race. Quoting from Oxford Dictionary:

-"Each of the major divisions of humankind, having distinct physical characteristics."

-"[Mass Noun] The fact or condition of belonging to a racial division or group; the qualities or characteristics associated with this."

-"A group of people sharing the same culture, history, language, etc.; an ethnic group. "

-"A group or set of people or things with a common feature or features."

Faunus are all that. So, by definition, they are a Race. Whether they are a completely separate species from Humans or just a Subspecies, is actually completely irrelevant here.