#the faunus problem

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just so enthused that we’re gonna have a whole repeat of white people losing their minds and cooing over their precious white queen “redeeming” herself from her malicious violent racism despite multiple poc speaking out on how poorly written it is and how it prioritizes white comfort over minorities.

it already took YEARS for white people in this fandom to accept the original issues with Weiss’ racism & the WF problem as a whole (many still don’t), and now IQ has just brought them out of the woodworks to deny her racism and claim it’s just the nightmare grimm and it’s all totally not her fault guys!! they essentially strip her of personal accountability so she can be the perfect victim that needs to be “saved” from her own bigotry.

yes the nightmare is is exacerbating her fears and portraying faunus accordingly but that is still because of her own personal ingrained beliefs. it is using what is there to do this to her. it is on weiss and no one else to deconstruct and reevaluate her own bigotry.

i’m sick of it. i am so sick of people prioritizing the racist’s feelings over the actual minorities being harmed. they don’t care about racism or poc and their struggles, they just want their white queen to be the ideal damsel even if it involves silencing poc when they criticize the racism within this writing.

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Would be really neat if Atleisian Faunus pointed out Blake’s class privilege of being a Belladonna and also being able to pass as human. Would be really neat if the Atlesian faunus had vastly different opinions than Blake’s to show that they’ve had a different experience with racism than she has.

Would be really neat if Blake’s idea of peaceful protesting was laughed off because faunus that live in Atlas know better. Would be really neat if Atlesian faunus had a better reception towards Sienna and her methods to show that faunus that live in different areas would have different opinions and they’re not a hive mind that blindly follow every speech giver.

Would be really neat if Blake realized that her views were shaped by her privilege and grapples with merging her own ideas and beliefs with new information and viewpoints she’s presented with. Would be really neat if Blake comes to think that maybe Sienna was talking more sense than she previously thought.

Would be really neat if Blake and the Atlesian faunus discuss how violence for the sake of violence is pointless but that those who oppress others rarely listen unless you make them, that change doesn’t come without hard choices, that no matter how “peaceful” one protests they will still be condemned and looked down on by their oppressors.

Would be really neat if Blake continued learning about different types of faunus oppression that she hasn’t had to face and the different struggles that exist. Would be really neat if she took the life lessons of others to heart and tried to learn and grow as much as she can because she realizes that her own experiences and ideas aren’t universal.

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What if the racism in rwby was displayed as faunus fetishization instead of... the few instances of racism we actually get.

Like maybe it’s just because I’ve been in anime circles enough but I think it’s way more likely that humans see people with animal traits and start treating them like kinks and stuff instead of being afraid of them.

For example: white weeaboos when they see Asian women.

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Hey uh..... I’ve been seeing this “Blake is branded in atlas and yang has to save her” headcanon going around and just to remind you...... there is a history of poc/poc coded characters being tortured and killed in media that we specifically tried to stop because it was a horrible thing that enforced racism and wanting to see Blake be subjected to racism fueled torture just so Yang can swoop in and save her and become a “faunus savior” is both horribly racist and White Savior esque.

Just because you ship a gay ship and/or are gay doesn’t mean you get a pass on your racism.