#if i had a nickel for every media i enjoyed despite the obvious bias in their fantasy racism id have so many nickels man

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Reminder that crwby spent more time showing us how the evil evil oppressed class hurts and conspires against the oppressor class than actually showing us in-universe racism, the effect it has on faunus and how exactly faunus are oppressed. They spent more time victimizing the oppressors, showing us how the evil radical faunus slaughter and hurt the poor humans, rather than showing us the racism faunus endure.

The biggest red flag is when someone decides to write about racism but focuses on how the oppressed hurt, maim and victimize the oppressors rather than the other way around. Why are you focusing on the “radicalization” of the oppressed minority rather than on the “radicalization” of the oppressors? It’s so weird.

^^^exactly why you shouldn't let people with no common sense or compassion write system oppression. They get it all backwards because they stand with the dominant group

Honestly this reminds me way too much of the mage/templar conflict throughout the Dragon Age series, especially the godawful centrist writing of Inquisition. In Bioware's attempt at grey morality, they wrote a group of people being torn from their families as children (8 years old being the norm) and locked away in gallows for merely existing - often beaten, starved, killed, and worse - but all the sympathy goes to the templars. Who signed up for the job. And are the ones dealing out the beatings and death. But that's not as important as their job forcing them all to become addicted to a magical substance :(((( ain't that so sad :(((( they're not torturing people because they inherently see mages as lesser, it's because they're addicts :((((

Hell, replace Adam with Anders and you get literally the exact same arguments of "uwu violence bad" even though Anders canonically spent 10 years attempting diplomacy while running a mage underground railroad whoop

Centrists stay tf away from storylines about systemic oppression forever challenge