>>105389914It isn't if the characters are supposed to be human and in any way relatable. While humans have a natural instinct to be suspicious of the 'Other', this instinct doesn't become outright racism without cause or prolonged exposure. Take racism against the Irish, for example, which started out initially as a fairly simple ethno-cultural struggle between the Celtic natives of the British Isles and the Roman/Anglo-Saxon/Danish/Norman invaders that would settle and create what we know today to be 'England', which then intensified starting in the 16th century - when Protestant England asserted its rule over Catholic Ireland - but only became outright racism in the 19th century, when not only did revolutionary idealism lead to rebellion and terrorism that would last for the next two centuries but also new scientific theories that explored the origins of mankind - of which some placed the Celtic Irish as lower than the Germanic Anglo-Saxons based on alleged physical and behavioral attributes. The multiple layers, beginning with Romans just thinking anyone who didn't speak their language simply had no language ('barbarian' came from 'bar-bar-bar', which is how non-Greek/Latin languages sounded to them), to the Protestants thinking that Catholics were all under the thrall of the papacy, to finally a more scientific explanation as to why one group is in desperate need of another's rule regardless of their wishes. That's reality. It's complex, it's multilayered, and it's difficult to solve because both sides have developed strong ideological defenses against one another - and wouldn't have survived to this point if they hadn't.
But what do we find in RWBY? Generic school bullies pulling a bunny girl's ears for no other reason than to be an asshat, a single 'NO FAUNUS ' sign outside of a bar, and a global terrorist group which is fighting against... I guess one really abusive corporation (fair) but also all of humanity too? This is bad writing, pure and simple.