Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14909251-20170522044827/@comment-25936766-20170530000548

Blackchaos27 wrote:

1-Okay maybe I jumped the gun on that one. Bringing psychology into something like this shouldn't be done lightly, especially when the issue at had is as serious as discrimination and whether or not its actually there.

2-Like WC-83 said, Weiss's and Blake's accounts shouldn't be dismissed so easily regardless of how malleable their memories may be.

3-I wouldn't exactly call being greeted by a disgruntled father particularly traumatic.

4-In the end, I still point to the fact that there were civil rights protests back with Blake was young and still there around the time of the pilot episode as proof enough that Blake's knowledge the unfair treatment towards Faunus is indeed valid.

5-Not to mention Oobleck himself admitted that the treatment is still a problem nowadays. So are you gonna dismiss a school teacher's account? 1-Actually, in a case-by-case basis, bringing psychology for a topic such as this is a good idea.

There's a video I saw long ago, of a policewoman, a black woman, who stopped her car on a red light. Then, an elderly white man on crutches stood by the sidewalk, waiting. Then suddenly the black woman got out of the car and threatened the man with violence, calling abuse and claiming he called her a nigger.

On trial, she stated that the man did exactly that, provoking her with racist remarks. Then she was shown recordings from cameras in the area. The man never said anything. She could not believe it.

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2-Not dismissed, but taken with salt, especially Blake's, since if her memories aren't wrong then what she says is filled with bias.

3-What about seeing friends and family disappear? Or suffering domestic abuse for years?

4-In the sense of "there are still people who hate Faunus", then you are right. But in the sense of "most people don't hate and discriminate Faunus", not so much.

Besides, she was a child. She can't be expected to have known the exact details about the situation. She knew there was discrimination, but just that.

As for the pilot episode, dismissed, because that's around 5 years after the WF went violent. Meaning anti-faunus sentiments were rising back like a Phoenix. Thus giving the non-violent Faunus reasons to protest, because now they were being given the cold shoulder at best for reals, while if not, it was due to fake equality.

5-Did he? I thought he said that Anti-Faunus racism is no good at all, and basically said it was the cause of the WF turning violent.

He's not saying "Stuff like that (Racism) still happens (widely) nowadays", he's saying "Stuff like that only makes things worse".