Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4403232-20140411230237/@comment-24400457-20140614075528

Another key difference is that Velvet is a faunus. Blake wears her bow out of fear of being mistreated by the human masses. That alone implies that faunus, whilst no longer segregated to Menagerie, are hardly accepted by society. RWBY, JNPR and the teachers may be rare cases. And only Oobleck, Pyrrha and Blake show actual resentment towards racist. Yang sympathises but seems to accept it as a fact of life and no one has a reaction at all.

It appears that racism is socially accepted and is either ignored or actively participated in by the majority. Only three people thus far have spoken against it, one of which was a faunus herself, one who is scared of revealing that nature because of human treatment of faunus.

Like I said: Faunus, Jaune and Ruby are likely to be the three targets that the rest of the school overlook. Faunus because they are faunus, Jaune because some people may not believe he deserves to be at Beacon and Ruby because some people may be jealous that she's at Beacon at the tender age of 15 (also see Jaune).