User blog comment:Warmachine375/Why are the Faunus discriminated?/@comment-25555436-20150603183217

Warmachine, you have just asked one of the most stupid, retarded questions one could ever ask.

In case you haven't noticed, 9.5/10 cases of comunities being discriminated are not really justified, and if you stop for 2 seconds and think about it, it's blatantly stupid and non-sensical.

Black people were discriminated for centuries on the single fact that their skin was very-dark-brown instead of white or yellow. They were physically and mentally identical to any of us, they just had darker skin, and as such were discriminated. Blatantly stupid, and that's just one example. Similar things can be said about the discrimination against the LGBT community and some others.

In fiction, in case you haven't noticed either, humans tend to be racist against anything that is better than them. Because deep inside, we are all just whiny little sons of bitches that can't take the fact that we are not Number 1 on Earth. That constitues nearly all cases of discrimination against other, more hybrid races in fiction. An example is Marvel's Mutants. Another example is Monty's Faunus.

Of course, when it comes to slavery, it's a bit different. In part, it's because they are seen as inferior and/or exotic/rare/strange and as such worth some gold at least. They saw them as basically animals and could be treated as such. If not sold for their exoticness or whatever, they were sold for their usefulness; African slaves were sold constantly in old times as they were normally among the best slaves physically-speaking. They lasted the most, endured the most work, they were valued more than others.

The same thing likely happened with the Faunus; they have night vision and are more agile than the average human, not to mention any animal capability they may have like super smell or hearing. That is extremely useful, plus they can do the same things a human slave can do. They were basically the best slaves on the market. The discrimination came from their biological superiority, and their rebellion, plus the White Fang, have only made the discrimination worse. That is, if you're like the others and assume they are being discriminated, because so far the indication is that the contrary is what is actually happening, but the WF are just too retarded and blind to see it.