Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-34633327-20171201215836/@comment-10390252-20171205171832

You'd be surprised how easily a bully can get off consequences for what is common assault by saying: "Hey, I was only fooling around! They shouldn't be so sensitive!"

There is a reason for this in narrative terms, I think. It is my belief that the tacit tolerance of anti-Faunus racism at the highest levels and most overt forms was part of the 'returning darkness' to which Salem aluded in the prologue to v1x01. It was a sign that the light and order of the social structure Ozpin was trying to create was beginning to collapse (if it ever had any real strength in the first place) and that Salem had sensed in this increasing discord and darkness her chance to strike.