Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20181215021300/@comment-4141313-20181228231956

Honestly, the racism of Atlas seem to be.... odd, to say the least.

One of the biggest hints of Atlesian Racism came from the talk of SDC abusing Faunus Labor, but from what Jacques said in Tipping Point:

Jacques: ''That's precisely my point. We offer Faunus the exact same wages given to the rest of our mining staff. Their argument's completely invalid right out of the gate.''

The implication isn't that he treats Faunus in particular badly, just that he treats all his workers badly.

Then we have two faunus that came from Atlas, but they couldn't be anymore different: Neon and Ilia.

Neon is a student at Atlas and one of the most outgoing Faunus characters seen, second if not tied with Sun. And if the Blake Anthology manga From Shadows has any bearing on canonicity, then Neon actually embraces being a Faunus and just sees humans as being envious.

Ilia on the other hand was a student and had to hide her Faunus heritage out of fear of being discriminated against, and when her parents died and her "friends" did nothing but bad mouth faunus, she responded by busting in their teeth.

So for the place said to be one of the most racist towards Faunus, only character to really validate that opinion is Ilia. So if Caroline is not really being racist, it definitely undermines the idea of Atlas being the most racist, and instead makes Ilia's situation the outlier, and even that could be chalked up to kids just being dicks.