Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4010415-20141223120240/@comment-24267097-20150107003616

Andrew S-997 wrote: I had a whole thing typed out, but I hit a hyperlink. Damn.

Anyway, crux of the now-nonexistent paragraph was that Weiss can see past the poor and downtrodden faces of many Faunus - it's just that any one of them could attempt to kill her at any time, and she's placing her own survival above being polite. She assumes the worst in people because the worst is a threat to her life. She's removing, or at least noting, potential threats. Once someone's proven that they're not a threat, she accepts them. She just needs proof that she's safe around them first.

I never said she wasn't cold. This is exactly why Wiess is racist, she may not want to be racist, but racism is an expediant mental shortcut reinforced through use. If it was not a useful shorthand to use a person's appearence, then stereoTvTropes would not be a thing.