Adam Taurus, Sienna Khan, Ilia Amitola from RWBY
So the show RWBY repeatedly showcases how the oppression of the faunus takes many forms, and protagonist Blake Belladonna points out how the White Fang was created as a response to Society, with Ilia Amitola representing a sympathetic reason for using violence to get results.
Here's the issue. RWBY Critics try to claim that Adam Taurus is somehow Remnant's version of Malcolm X. He's not. He's Louis Farrakhan expy. SIENNA KHAN is the Malcom X.
Sienna and Malcom both sought Violence with moderation. Not wanting outright war, just wanting rights and for society to be afraid of oppressing minorities.
But just as Malcolm X was murdered by extremist members of his own organization for being a moderate, so too was Sienna Khan murdered by Adam Taurus for the same thing.
And Louis Farrakan is a hate preacher, not a civil rights activist, despite how many people try to turn a blind eye to him going to Iran and preaching death to america.
But again, the problem with how the status quo is not fixed is due to three factors that RWBY Critics do not acknowledge.
One? Jacques Schnee remaining in power has influence across the kingdoms, and people would rather have dust at low costs, ignoring the exploits of minority workers.
Its important to note that people would rather defend capitalism to one degree or another due to different "think tanks" promoting a fear and misunderstanding of what socialism involves, as well as historical revisionism of FDR and Teddy Roosevelt.
IRL, the United Nations works with many countries that exploit Africa, and even destabilize said countries. Many coups aren't just caused by the CIA, but even the UK and Russia.
Two, Salem prefers humanity at each other's throats, and regularly has her agents pit humans and faunus against each other, as part of her goal of dividing humanity. She is equal opportunist in who she has work for her, but designs plans so that humanity will always have a reason to divide against each other.
THREE. IRONWOOD. Two council seats, and yet he ONLY uses them to get whatever he wants, not only ignoring Faunus rights, but allowing Jacques to abuse his wife and kids.
This also leads into one of the earlier RWBY Volumes where Blake Belladonna calls out Ozpin on his failure to improve wellbeing for faunus students.
You wanna know why the teachers refused to take action on Cardin bullying Velvet? Look at Cornell University. Schools try to cover up every last act that their students do. I was nearly murdered in college for being Jewish, and the school forced me to keep quiet about my attackers.
Fisher Tiger, Hody Jones, Arlong and Jimbei from One Piece
Nami, whose family was oppressed by Arlong, acknowledges this while at Fishman Island.
That while Arlong had every right to hate humans for oppressing fishmen?
The problem was that the World Government kept trying to pit humans and fishmen against each other in order to maintain slavery and oppression.
And that led to King Neptune forming an alliance with the Strawhat Alliance, who protected Neptune's daughter against the Celestial Dragons.
Furthermore, Hody Jones, who never suffered said slavery but did deal with humans, represents how extremists will harm their own people in order to try to hurt their opposing side.
This has many IRL examples
But what's important is that One Piece acknowledges that the status quo and oppression are bad things , and that the Revolutionary Army is justified in opposing the World Government.
But with the World Government enforcing slavery and racism at the top, and people like Arlong or Hody Jones creating fear of Merman at the Bottom?
There is struggle to create equality at both the Top and Bottom forms of society, and that parallels many such cases IRL as well.
Jimbei had hoped to prevent slavery by assisting the world government....the world government used him as a puppet, so he left the WG.
Amon, Earth Queen, Kuvira, and Prince Wu
The Equalist movement was created out of a protest against how bender groups like The Triad would oppress non-benders.
They have a good point, and you see in the third book how The Earth Queen uses the Dai Lee to oppress people within the kingdom too.
But let's look at who is in charge.
Chairman Raikou who is not the most competent dude.
Prince Wu, incredibly incompetent and self-interested.
Tenzin, who is trying to restore the Air Tribes after the Fire Nation's war.
Fire Lord Izumi, busy trying to restore the Fire Nation's honor after 100 years of imperialism.
With movements like Kuvira, the Red Lotus, and The Earth Queen, so many large crises prevent the opportunity for social reform and such.
