#rwby racism

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

Tavros: wE CAN'T SERVE HER, sHE'S A CAT, rIGHT,,,

Aradia: but she's g0t a p0cket full 0f cash

Jasprosesprite: *slides a twenty across the table*

#homestuck #incorrect homestuck quotes #tavros nitram #aradia megido #jasprosesprite #mod terezi #source: sabrina the teenage witch #nobody tell nepeta team charge is suddenly catgirl racist #first rwby now this #can i never escape catgirl racism?

[reashot]

Jaune Hunting Season. (Feat. Wolf Faunus Ruby.)

Papa Arc: Wake up Son we're going hunting!

Jaune: But dad I don't want to go hunting!

Papa Arc: Son. I'll pretend I didn't hear you. There is nothing more noble and honorable than shooting a defenseless animal with a high powered rifle.

Jaune: Dad killing animals is wrong and barbaric.

Papa Arc: What wrong is you not getting your butt inside my car right this instance.

Jaune: No dad I won't do it.

Papa Arc: Oh I see. As a father I need to respect my children's wishes... Sike! *snatch & tie Jaune up like a hog* You're going on a hunting trip with me boy and that's final. Besides we hardly bond together lately.

Jaune: That's because of stuffs like this dad! Why can't we just bond over board game or something boring like that?

Papa Arc does not listen to what his son have to say and just place Jaune in his car. And before they know it they already in their hunting gears.

Papa Arc: Okay Jaune we will meet up here later this afternoon. For now go ahead and find something to shoot. I'll be right here setting up camp. And be careful around this part I set up trap around this area since yesterday. If you found one caught in my trap go ahead and put it out off its misery.

Jaune: Okay dad. I'll be going... (Finally I'm out of there.)

With a rifle in hand. He walks into the wood, not to hunt but to mostly get away from his dad's venal attempt in trying to turn him into a man.

??? : *howling in pain*

Jaune: What was that?

He said despite knowing that there's only one animal that can make that kind of sound and they are in pain. With haste Jaune runs as fast as he can to the direction of the sound.

Wolf Ruby: *snarl. Yelping in pain* 🐺

Jaune sees a small wolf Faunus girl having her leg been caught inside a bear trap.

Jaune: Oh poor girl. Here let me help you out...

Ruby: Get away from me human!!! *clawing Jaune's eyes out*

Jaune: I-it's okay girl. I'm trying to help you out.

Ruby: No! You're lying. All humans are liar and murderer! Human is the reason my mom is dead!!!

Jaune: I'm sorry about your mother. But I'm not like that. I'm trying to help you. Look see. I'm dropping my gun and I swear I will not harm you. I just need you to allow me to touch you for a second so I can get your leg out from the bear trap.

Ruby: *growl* Fine! But no funny business mister.

Jaune: Okay here goes... *gently removes Ruby's leg from the bear trap*

Ruby: Ahh!!!

Jaune: Shh.... *Rub Ruby's head* there you go... Good girl, good girl...

Ruby: 🤯

Sometimes later....

Papa Arc: There you are son! Where have you been?

Jaune: Dad, you don't mind if I bring a friend home right?

Ruby: *Hugging Jaune's arm* Hello mister Jaune's dad. My name is Ruby and I already Marked your son as my mate. 💕

Papa Arc: I see.... Ruby would you mind if we have some time alone together? You know seeing that we will be in-law after all.

Ruby: I see no problem with that. Lead on Jaune's dad.

The two walks into the secluded area of the forest...

Papa Arc: So Ruby. You and my son, huh. How did you two met?

Ruby: Oh it's nothing to talk about really. Jaune saved me from a trap laid by a human then he used his semblance to heal me. He was so patient with me and so kind that I can't help but want him to be my mate... 😊

Papa Arc: I see interesting... By the way was your mother's name Summer Rose?

Ruby: Yeah, Summer Rose was my mom. Why did you ask?

Papa Arc: Because... *points his gun* I killed your mother.

Ruby: W-what?

*bang!*

#rwby #jaune arc #ruby rose #lancaster #lancaster rwby #jaune x ruby #ruby x jaune #rwby lancaster #wolf faunus ruby #papa arc #papa arc knows best #rwby au #faunus racism

[the-path-to-redemption]

This day can't can't getting better because according to the leaks Vacuo was going to be a colonized nation!

And you know what else? The writers were going to make the "oppressors" be wrong and bad because they don't like they fact they are being colonized.

Now I'm not to sure if this was the finalized storyboard but if it was......may they all burn in hell. Cause wft is this shit!!!!

Pretty sure stans will eat this story arc up and trying to justify why colonizers were actually good people who had good intention when colonization brings nothing but pain and trauma

Oh fuck me, they're gonna colonize Vacuous again...what the hellllllllll.

Yes, I said again because Vacuo WAS colonized. BY ATLAS. That was a canonical event that caused the Great War, and got Weiss' family to become fucking tycoons. The exploitation and colonization of Vacuo 80+ years ago was a crucial part of Atlas' domination in technology and Dust production, as well as the monopoly that the Schnee Dust Company controlled.

And let's be honest here, bby, was any of us surprised that CRWBY is planning to make an oppressed group the bad guys for not being nice enough to their oppressors?

You know, LIKE THEY DID WITH THE WHITE FANG AND THE FAUNUS.

Of course the stans would eat it up. They DID. On multiple occasions. That's why I'm glad that fucking bitch of a company is 8 levels of hell under.

#answered #anonymous #rwde #rwby critical #anti rooster teeth #fndm critical #racism in fandom #racism in media #anti miles luna #mkek critical #anti crwby #crwby critical

[lilithfairen]

Just your friendly reminder that RWBY hatedom is heavily rooted in misogyny and racism, is genuinely incapable of viewing women as anything but objects, and sees the idea of anyone but white/light-skinned male characters given focus as a personal offense.

#rwby critics #misogyny in hatedom #racism in hatedom #white male persecution complex strikes again~

[dragynkeep]

"the writers are racist but the show isn't", yeah the totally not racist actions of having their first black character be a scantily clad thief subservient to a white woman or their first asian character be a nonsensical mashup of chinese & japanese cultures or one of their girlboss characters being based off a nazi or killing off their first south asian character in her first five minutes or getting their native american character's last name entirely wrong or having their latina character wear booty shorts & a chainmail in the desert while she's participating in human trafficking or having their racial allegory be mainly represented by white characters while allegorically stealing the experiences from black americans as admitted by the creative director or —

#rwby #rwde #anti blackness #antisemitism #anti asian racism #anti latino racism #anti south asian racism #ais.txt

[diaryofamadsunwukongfan]

Since I consider Sun Wukong to be a completely irrelevant side character I honestly don't care what you think about him.

I just think people who can't even use correct grammar believing they're better writers than the people running the show are delusional and as a general rule, complete assholes.

White people be normal about AAVE challenge.

#I just knew someone was going to act up #whypipo #I hate that nonsense word but I will use it for those it describes #anyway if you didn't care then why are you here? #sounds like someone cares😏😏😏 #rwde #rwby #rwby fix it fic #fandom racism #aave

[marrow-minded]

its so fucked up that according to rens uprgraded semblance all the poc ace ops only feel one emotion each in the current moment but winter "the real true maiden that's definitely a grooming victim of a poc man but also a girlboss ignore the racism her entire bloodline is soaked in" schnee gets to feel multiple

like. its literally racist rhetoric to imply people of color feel less than white people. like thats not even a stretc thats LITERALLY just racist. and it wouldnt have been hard to have the ace ops to feel at least two emotions so its more obvious that winter is 'conflicted' (or have her aura/petals/whatever to be actively changing colors instead of implying that she just ""feels more"" than the people of color around her)

#rwde #racism in rwby #fuck u winter schnee i cant stand ur ass

[invested-in-your-future]

Why are you so stuck up on the flaws? Plenty enjoy RWBY because they don't overthink or nitpick.

Ah yes, if I just ignore everything that's bad with the show, it will suddenly become good. Brilliant logic right here.

Got to love a show where if I applied that to some Volumes, the volume would be reduced to just the opening song.

Imagine NOT wanting to reasonably analyze the fictional work you like, while show remains outright malicious to both mental health and and tons of other things (like how it handled racism) that affect very real people in very real world.

#rwby #rwde #imagine ignoring sexism racism misogyny ableism #imagine ignoring how RT treats it's workers #imagine ignoring the comments RT staff made about characters #imagine the subtextual implications behind how they treated racism #IMAGINE ignoring the show's treatment of SUICIDE?

[fanstuffrantings]

In developing them as individual characters they've all come to matter to me a lot. So enjoy team CRDL sketches while I toil in my rewrites for them.

#team crdl #rwby #cardin winchester #russel thrush #dove bronzewing #sky lark #weiss schnee #rwby rewrite #rwby fanart #ive removed faunus racism in my au #cardin is just a normal level asshole now #who gets a redemption arc because hes a teenager who can change #molten tarts

[baneonn]

Blake: grew up fighting for her rights at a young age, had to hide who she was so she wouldn’t be discriminated against going to beacon, was emotionally and physically abused by a man growing up and was left by her parents in an organization they knew wasn’t going in the right direction 

Some people in the fandom: Blake grew up privileged and had no struggles because her parents now have a big home

For the love of god people Blake never grew up in the big house her parents have now. They didn’t get their big home until Blake was in her teenage years and even then she still didn’t live in it. Not to mention her parents worked to get their home now, nothing was handed down to them. And having a big home doesn’t automatically mean you grew up privileged, especially when your apart of a group whose rights have been taken away and are actively being discriminated against 

#the amount of times I've seen people call a person who is actively discriminated against privileged will be the death of me #nothing was easy for her growing up with racism and discrimination against the faunus #her father being chieftain doesn't absolve all of the hate and discrimination she faces as a faunus or how they're treated #her parents now having a big home doesn't mean life was easy for her growing up when she had to protest for her rights as early as a kid #rwby #blake belladonna

[storm-of-feathers]

I don't think homophobia is A Thing in Remnant. We've seen no examples (even King of Abuse Adam didn't remark on Yang being a woman he remarked on Yang having nothing of value for being human). No one's had to "come out" as gay because they don't seem to live in a heteronormative society. It genuinely seems like being not straight is a completely normalized and accepted thing to a point that it doesn't even cross anyone's minds.

#rwby #ive said this before a couple times but idk if ive ever said it seriously #and tbh im glad!! i get that most worlds draw on things from our own for worldbuilding #but its sort of. annoying. when certain medias that Dont Take Place On Earth still have bs like racism and homophobia #and god i hope the vacuo arc doesnt prove me wrong #q'd

[copaganda-clobberfest]

White Fang propaganda. how come all the bad faunus have different skin tones handle trauma in less comfortable ways fight harder against their oppressive system and in turn are more oppressed by the system. meanwhile 80-90% of the good ones are virtually all white with a handful of exceptions and also never. do. anything. about their peoples oppression. BUT THATS OK THOUGH the humans aren’t that bad they’re just scared of the black people. I mean they’re scared of the the Faunus they’re scared of……. the oppressors are scared of the minorities surely both sides are equally bad :)

Shoot me. It’d hurt less

#rwby #copaganda clobberfest #propaganda #the white fang #not a poll #ok I’m gonna ramble because twf is easily one of the topics on this tourny that enrages me to no end. #firstly I’m half native. the way the show handled ilia’s character in particular #an orphaned INDIGENOUS CODED girl who by the end of her arc needs to be “TAMED” by her much more privelged friend #so she. protests the right way. the Native American girl was not protesting correctly guys TEXAN MADE SHOW BTW #NATIVE PEOPLE ARE CALLED TERRORISTS TO THIS DAY BECAUSE OF HOW OUR PEOPLE ARE TREATED. #AND IT MAKES ME WANT TO BASH MY HEAD INTO A WALL THAT THIS WAS HOW THEY TREAED HER #don’t even get me started on adam. ohhhh boy. #all I’ll say: very uncomfortable they quite literally put a slave brand of the *German* named company’s initials on the eye #of a character with a *Jewish* name. take that what you will. I’ll go hurl in a bucket. #racism tw

[the-path-to-redemption]

Why the Faunus storyline sucks ass: the personal/character level analysis

This is just my opinion, but to put in perspective how absolutely dogshit RWBY’s Faunus narrative truly is, I’m just gonna rant for a while and compare the storyline to another narrative that I think handled the topic of systematic racism and the cycle of violence due to racism very well: Full Metal Alchemist’s Scar and the Ishvalans. 

Preface: The latter two do so well, in my opinion, because they never truly portray racism as a straight-up allegory in the premise of a fantasy world. By separating a fantasy narrative from completely writing it as a reflection of any specific civil rights movement, it becomes a universal message that everyone can understand and make connections themselves to real-life injustices without inaccurately and/or offensively portraying a sensitive topic such as racism like how RWBY did.

Extremely Long Post Below the Cut. Spoilers for RWBY, Full Metal Alchemist, and Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood.

Trigger warnings for: graphic character deaths, depictions/reference of character deaths, ethnic genocide, war crimes, mentions of abuse, racism, slavery, depiction of a hate crime (branding), reference to child slavery, mild gore, and depictions of violence. 

We shall begin on a personal level, then perhaps move on to the systematic level of how these storylines are so different in the portrayal of racism in another post. Let’s start with the bad: Weiss Schnee and her racism against the Faunus.

I’m gonna be front with ya’ll here: I actually didn’t mind Weiss’ initial behavior at first; it’s obvious where they were going with her character and story: she started off as an entitled, racist and cruel person because of many factors in her life. Weiss came from the wealthiest family in Remnant, with a unique and versatile Semblance that can easily grant her a high status in Atlesian society, However, she is also from a broken and abusive household, with a neglectful mother and a father who was willing to put his heiress through a dangerous trial for her to leave to another nation to find her own path, which resulted in a permanent scarring on her face. 

[A screenshot from RWBY White Trailer. Weiss Schnee in a dark room, eyes closed in a painful expression while blood trail down her face from a wound from the Armor Gigas]

However, Weiss has expressed quite vocal and malicious racism towards the Faunus, especially Sun during Volume 1 Chapter 15 “The Stray”

[RWBY Vol 1 Chapter 15 “The Stray”. Team RWBY gathers around an irate Weiss, who refers to Sun as a “riffraff” following his escape from authorities after stowing away on a ship.]

[RWBY Vol 1 Chapter 15 “The Stray”. Weiss holding up a caricature drawing of Sun Wukong to Penny, depicting him as a violent individual while referring to him as a “filthy Faunus”.]

[RWBY Vol 1 Chapter 15 “The Stray”. In response to Blake’s demand as to why she was degrading Sun for being a Faunus, Weiss gestures to a trashcan, insinuating that she equates him to being trash/referring to him as “filthy” due to his status as a Faunus]

Narratively speaking, these are condemnable behaviors for a character to possess, let alone one of the main characters of the show. Blake, another protagonist, even criticize Weiss for her racism and defended the Faunus, stating that people like Weiss and Cardin are the reasons why Faunus such as the White Fang have to resort to extreme measures to gain their rights. 

[RWBY Vol 1 Chapter 15 “The Stray”. Blake angrily declares that it’s people like Cardin and Weiss, in their discriminatory behavior, have caused the White Fang resorting to extreme measures in their civil rights movement]

So, narratively speaking, we should see that Weiss would reflect on her actions later on, and aim to remove herself from such toxic mindsets and redeem herself from her bigotry, right?

[RWBY Vol 1 Chapter 15 “The Stray”. In response to Blake’s anger, Weiss snapped back, declaring herself a victim in the ordeal with her family and the White Fang. She then recounts the deaths of the supporters of the SDC, the Dust robberies committed by the White Fang, and her father’s reaction, claiming that it had made her childhood difficult.]

Not even close. 

Call me heartless, but while I’m not condoning Jacques’ abuse of his family, I find it insulting that Weiss would see herself as the victim over an entire race of people who are still enslaved by her family, and exploited by those same board members causing them to fight back. 

Sun’s entire kingdom was drained of its resources by her grandfather and the Atlesian kingdom. Ilia, another member of the White Fang, lost her parents in Weiss’ family’s Dust mines after a collapse, then find herself without empathy from her human peers who mocked their deaths. Adam, who was another Faunus character, was enslaved and branded, permanently disabling him for life. 

To compare their lives, knowing subjugation for the majority of it because of the way they were born, to Weiss’ is straight-up stupid. She’s a victim of abuse, but she also perpetuated the cycle of hate on a group of people who were still being used by her father, instead of placing the blame at Jacques’ feet.

What’s even worse? Weiss never apologized to Sun or Blake for being cruel to them in the show canon. You know what’s even more insulting? 

[RWBY: The Official Manga Chapter 8 by Bunta Kinami. Weiss admits her wrongdoings, and apologizes to Blake.]

That apology was written in a secondary source material, by another author not directly associated with the main writing team at CRWBY. And guess what? This decision will never have any impact on Weiss’ canonical character or the main storyline. This is the same as fanfic, and we will never get that closure in canon. 

Weiss then continued to not apologize, and in Volume 7 seemingly developed a “white savior complex” towards the Faunus racism in her own home kingdom. She told Blake that she wishes that she could “take back all the years of abuse her family committed against the Faunus”, but then went to a movie with Jaune and Oscar instead of a rally in support of a candidate running against her father in the Atlas council election, who was supposedly pro-Faunus. 

Why? Why not have both of them be at this event? Sure, it went to shit, but to show the audience that Weiss has truly changed and Blake wanted to continue to fight for Faunus’ rights, it’s logical to have them go to this rally right?? No, Weiss went to a movie with a guy she dislikes, and Blake went to a club with a team she doesn’t like. Neither of them took initiative to actually change the systematic racism against Faunus in Atlas, the infamously most racist kingdom in Remnant. 

Matter of fact, Weiss and Blake rarely have any development with this conflict between them save for sparse moments that don’t amount to anything and came out of no organic progression at all. They never talk about the ongoing discrimination anymore, Blake blamed her own kind for the way they were treated and placed the responsibility of Adam’s White Fang at their feet, and Weiss never truly did anything to change the Atlesian people’s mindset on the Faunus citizens there. Hell, Marrow, the token Faunus in the most elite unit of the Atlas military, never has another conversation with them about what it’s like being a Faunus in Atlas. It all went to waste. 

Now, let’s compare that to FMA 

[Full Metal Alchemist. A young Scar faces his people during the Ishval Civil War]

The character Scar is a fascinating one; he’s a survivor of the Ishvalan people who were massacred by the Amestrian government and their State Alchemists to create a philosopher stone (a great form of alchemic power) in exchange for their lives following torturous experiments. 

Scar also lost his brother in the war, who before passing away gave Scar his own arm tattooed with a transmutation array as a legacy. Understandably, Scar was enraged by this chain of events and went on a killing spree to eliminate every State Alchemist as revenge for what they did in the war, even if they weren’t involved at all. 

[Full Metal Alchemist. A heavily injured Scar awoke to see that his arm has been replaced with his brother’s, who died in the war. His face was twisted in an expression of horror and shock at the revelation.]

But perhaps one of the most interesting differences between Scar’s story from Blake’s, and even to the rest of the Faunus storyline, was that even though Scar’s actions were extreme and he himself acknowledged it with great guilt, especially after murdering a doctor couple who did nothing but saves innocents in his grief, FMA’s narrative never invalidates or demonized his anger. 

Scar was allowed to be angry, to be hateful, to be in emotional pain after a traumatic event in his life without the narrative ever condemning such emotions. The narrative never fully condones his rampant extremism either, especially after the murder of Winry’s parents and orphaning their young daughter in his grief. And despite all of this, Scar was given more to his character than just a man consumed by wrath and blood. 

[Full Metal Alchemist. Scar places his hand on the amalgamation that was Nina Tucker and her dog Alexander, with the intent of mercy killing them after they were forcibly fused by Shou Tucker, Nina’s father, and a State Alchemist.]

Scar exhibits mercy, sadness, understanding, and empathy towards other characters throughout the series. He was allowed to be a fully fleshed-out character, with more than just the drive for vengeance and the need to destroy out of fury. And once again, he fully acknowledges that his actions were wrongful and do not excuse himself for killing innocents such as the Rockbells. And this is where another important character in his story comes in: Winry Rockbell, the orphaned daughter of his first victims. 

[Full Metal Alchemist. Scar was surrounded by the Elric brothers while Winry Rockbell aims a gun at him, racked with grief after learning that he was her parents’ murderer.]

When face to face with Winry, Scar never blamed her for hating him. He fully understood her pain and told her that he wouldn’t stop her from trying to shoot him out of vengeance for what he did to her parents. But he claims that he would not just let her, because he has a mission to complete, just like she does. 

But then, Scar’s entire ideology was flipped on its head after this sequence of events:

[Full Metal Alchemist. Scar aimed to attack Edward Elric, who threw himself in front of Winry Rockbell to protect her. Scar was reminded of how his own brother protected him and hesitated.]

[Full Metal Alchemist. Winry approaches a bleeding Scar after he told her that she can enact her vengeance. However, Winry surprises everyone by offering to bandage up his wound, claiming that he would bleed to death if he doesn’t tend to it.]

Scar was shown an alternative to end the cycle of violence from the girl who he had wronged, altering his previous mindset of only stopping the cycle by completely destroying a side in the conflict. Winry, instead of continuing it out of retribution like he did, chose mercy and compassion. But at the same time, she refuses to forgive him for the atrocities he had committed.

[Full Metal Alchemist. Winry declares that while she doesn’t want to kill Scar, he should not misunderstand her actions as forgiveness.]

Compare this to how the characters in RWBY reacted to this sort of conflict; an in-universe minority acted with extreme measures against an oppressive and murderous system, causing them to commit atrocities against innocents that affected another important character in the narrative in major ways. 

What FMA did right was not invalidating either Scar or Winry’s pain and anger, the narrative of FMA never condemned Scar for fighting back for his people, the narrative never judges Winry for not forgiving him, the narrative of FMA did not sacrifice either of their characters to progress the plot and the conflict. 

RWBY did not do anything like that. Blake lost all of the sparks that marked her as an interesting character, who aimed to fight for her people’s rights and calls out bigoted actions, even when it came from her teammates and someone who she will see as a friend. Weiss never apologized to the Faunus she had hurt, nor did she substantially change anything about the way she or her fellow Atlesians think about the Faunus. Weiss did not add anything to Blake’s story, and she never even met the greatest sin her family has committed that we, the audience, saw on screen. 

[RWBY Volume 6 Chapter 11 “The Lady in the Shoe”. Adam Taurus with his signature White Fang mask off, revealing a branding scar across his left eye spelling the initials “SDC”, permanently disfiguring and disabling him.]

Weiss never saw Adam. 

Adam, arguably the character who underwent the most racial abuse at the hands of humans, at the hands of WEISS’ FAMILY LEGACY, was made into a caricature of an abuser. Despite the fact that this proves that he was a slave, the fact that her family continues to exploit an entire race of people and treated them like property or dirt, despite all of the possibilities of these characters having more to them.

Weiss never saw what her family’s name has done to Adam. And Adam himself was made into someone the audience hated, instead of having the respect he deserved. The respect that Scar had. 

His anger was demonized, even by Blake who knows he has this brand on him, his fury was condemned by the narrative and the characters in said narrative (Ghira, Blake, and Sienna), and his trauma was mocked by the writers when Miles motherfucking Luna referred to his torture as “grab a branding iron and let him have it”. 

And the conclusion to these two narratives cannot be more different. Scar, having gained the knowledge of what truly happened to his people, aimed his anger at the one who was deserving of it the most. King Bradley, better known as the Homunculus Wrath, was the ruler of Amestris and the one who ordered the massacre of the Ishvalan people. 

[Full Metal Alchemist. Scar, using the arm with the Construction array, delivers a fatal blow to the Homunculus Wrath.]

This outcome was both narratively and symbolically satisfying for Scar’s story, as well as the Ishvalan narrative. Wrath was the one who spearheaded the ethnic genocide of Scar’s people, creating a seemingly endless cycle of violence and pain, giving birth to the man known as “Scar” who was willing to throw himself into hell to enact vengeance for his people. 

But Scar defeated him after altering his view on the cycle of violence, no longer just depending on mindless destruction but to truly changing for the better while never compromising on his righteous fury for his kin. But he aimed it at someone who deserved it, instead of innocents. And it started with a girl who showed him another way to live with grief. To move on. 

So he killed the Homunculus named Wrath and symbolically separated himself from that version of the wrath inside of him. Scar the Ishvalan got the respect he deserved as a character, and subsequently his story, the story of the Ishvalan the fantasy race who underwent horrific treatments that we the audience can see happening in our own real-life history, was given that respect it deserved. 

What did Adam Taurus, the civil rights fighter and the child slave, have in his story’s conclusion?

[RWBY Volume 6 Chapter 12 “Seeing Red”. Adam Taurus was stabbed by Blake Belladonna and Yang Xiao Long during their conflict with the severed halves of Gambol Shroud, Blake’s weapon.]

[RWBY Volume 6 Chapter 12 “Seeing Red”. Adam Taurus collapsed onto his knees before the waterfall’s mouth, while Blake Belladonna and Yang Xiao Long watches him.]

[RWBY Volume 6 Chapter 12 “Seeing Red”. Adam Taurus succumbed to his injuries and fall into the basin to his death.]

This. 

This is what Adam was given as a conclusion. Let it speak for itself. And let it speak for what RWBY truly sees about a racism storyline that the writing crew chose to write in their narrative. The narrative that they themselves claimed to be a direct allegory to the African-American civil rights movement in the U.S. during the late 60s-70s. 

This is what RWBY gave to their narrative of a racism plotline. 

#pathi's personal thoughts #long post #rwde #rwby critical #full metal alchemist #full metal alchemis brotherhood #adam taurus critical #weiss schnee critical #blake belladonna critical #yang xiao long critical #abuse tw #abuse mention / #abuse / #Faunus Racism #tw/racism #racism mention / #racism / #violence / #violence tw #racism tw #death tw #death / #my longest post yet #but I got a lot of rage on this shit #so imma just put it all here #just go read FMA guys it's worth it #anti rooster teeth #anti miles luna #anti mk #anti crwby

[lilithfairen]

Really, any time you think RWDE/RWBY "critics" care about racism and the portrayal of such, just remember that most of these folks take genuine offense with how a black woman defected from the villains before a white man did.

#the most oppressed minority are of course white men~ /s #rwde #rwby critics #racism in hatedom

[dragynkeep]

Black people in RWBY either gets sexualized or demonized I fucking hate it hereeeee

[paragraph pasted for clarity:]

& added on because i had no further space but the company behind this show is incredibly antiblack. there was documented abuse of a notable black woman, including telling her to kill herself & writing the n slur around the workplace that continued until hr famous father had to get involved & call them out.

miles has said the n slur. other employees have done blackface & also said antiblack slurs. various antiblack stereotypes have also been employed in the show, including the basis of flynt's entire character.

as well as centering all of these black characters around their white counterparts. they are not allowed to exist in their own space without becoming a white characters subservient, villain or thrown off screen.

#the-path-to-redemption #rwby #rwde #alyx #alyx rwby #lewis #lewis rwby #emerald sustrai #fox alistair #elm ederne #harriet bree #flynt coal #sage ayana #pietro polendina #marrow amin #roane ashwood #hanlon fifestone #joanna greenleaf #racism in media #racism in fandom #antiblackness #anti black racism #ais.txt #answered #q

[snowowlll]

A bunch of Texas white Americans really made the worst discount Magneto I have ever seen in my life and people act surprised he was a villain from the word Go. And that's not getting into the fact the writers made him sexist (sauce: Blake, Illa, Sienna, Yang) in a world where the Patriarchy supposedly doesn't exist.

PS: Adam is not a deconstruction of the "White Savior" trope because that requires a comprehensive understanding of history that you cannot convince me the writers have when they unironically wrote a story where violent protests are morally wrong and used a minority supremacist as the villain of that plot point.

PS PS: The fact Adam is seen as the face of the "The Faunus Plot was bad" critiques while two dark-skinned woc characters (Illa, Sienna) have the same motivations as him is not a good thing. Especially when Adam fridged the darker skinned one (Sienna) and the other one got gaslight to by the white main character so she would be a good minority and beg for her freedom from her oppressors like all good minorities should do (Illa).

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