Just a few random thoughts about the recent discussions...
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Originally Posted by Bogart
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If the White Fang have their way, there will be a war, and if the White Fang lose, so will their cause. No one is going to be able to give two shits about the Faunas and their mistreatment if they escalate things. Stopping them won't matter after the damage is done. Their only hope would be to actually win the war.
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If real-world history is any guide, it is possible that, after a long, drawn-out struggle, peace and progress can be actually be achieved. The Northern Ireland peace process is a good example.
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The Faunas are not a noble family. They're an oppressed minority.
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Although these statements are, in and of themselves, true, they do not preclude the possibility that there could be a noble Faunus family or two. Many oppressed minorities, races, or peoples have had noble families, including Kings and Queens.
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Originally Posted by Random Wanderer
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Heroic symbols can be far more evocative than nameless masses.
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Some people seem to be forgetting this when they think that the White Fang will all but permanently discredit the Faunus race in the eyes of humans, and that no one individual could step up to make a change for the betterment of their race. Don't the names Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ring any bells? While other members of their respective minorities were waging violent confrontations with their oppressors, these men employed nonviolent civil disobedience which, in the end, was more effective in gaining sought after civil rights.
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The White Fang's tendency to hide themselves behind masks works against them in this case, as they become almost literally faceless thugs.
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If, indeed, all those masked men and women are actually Faunus (I can't say I've noticed any outward signs that any of those guys with White Fang masks are Faunus). I suspect it's a lot easier for Rooster Teeth to put masks on all the faces of the minions (or just replicate a myriad of clones) instead of actually giving them individual or quasi-individual faces.
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Originally Posted by Tenzen12
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3) Blake joined WF as fauna and for faunas, because she believed it's right thing. If Adam or some other close person were in pinch, she might help them as one-time event. But she will not join loosing, morally wrong side that hurt reputation of her kind.
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It's also good to remember that the White Fang that Blake belonged to while she was growing up is not the same organization as the White Fang is now. It went from having peaceful, nonviolent demonstrations to being ostensibly a terrorist organization. Something akin to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the peaceful protesters morphing into the Black Panther party where torture and murder (even of their own members) was perfectly acceptable.
I also wonder if Blake, initially, became a member of the White Fang because her parents belonged, such as most young children will have the same religious views as their parents.
