@Don:
I was referring to what the authoritys of the world are thinking nowadays.
It may not be anymore an official law, but still those who posses power in this world didn`t changed their view about fishman.
Then why would they make a treaty with a group that they clearly had the upperhand on if for no other reason than sympathy for them? They even extend an arm to them by inviting Jinbe into the Schichibukai.
The WG overlooks such actions right under their eyes and i would bet that nobody would be declared guilty when he kills a fishman in this world.(they even celebrate when someone kills a fishman..CD or not)
The WG overlooks it right under their eyes because that's what the CD want and the CD are more important to them than the fishman and many other citizens. If the government wanted slave trade, they would make it legal. Sengoku even expresses frustration right here when DoFlamingo mentions that slavery is going well.
http://www.mangafox.com/manga/one_piece/v25/c234/6.html
They also have a court for outlaws on ID.
It may be there, but how it used or not is in corrupt hands.
Also Shabondy is the best place for a slavemarket because every race gathers there, while in the rest of the world it would be impossible to have so many races to sell, seeing how rare fishman are.
I'm not really sure what this has to do with the current topic.
Those guys you see there are most likely the rulers of different kingdoms.
Those who posses power and tell people on their island what is okay and what isnt. Just take Wapol as example..i guess we weren
t introduced to him without a reason.
Whatever he said was law, if the people liked it or not.
The world of OP is ruled by terror and when the rulers say they don`t want fishman on their island, you bet everyone will hunt them down.
I'm pretty sure those guys are just rich assholes. Why do you think that they are kings?
Why is it then possible to buy a slave for everyone with enough money?
They could also use a private slavemarket just for CD without the public much noticing.
But as you see it seems that many many wealthy people think like the CD and by that such a slave market were established.
Because that would require the WG to work directly with criminals in order to organize something illegal.
That they made a deal with fishman was just because they wanted to look good from outside..like the court in ID for example.
For the general public the WG always tries to look friendly and caring, but those on top are definitely not like that.
But to prevent to show the public there real face they made such "deals" to ease the mood..still knowing they can still act as they want.
But 200 years ago people still hated fishmen. It was the government that decided to try and help them, not the people. As Robin said "they were universally scorned".
But i think they made a deal with the fishman race, so how could that be tolerated?
You see, it may not be hatred of the public, but those in control(which are the same as 200 yrs ago) have hatred against them and by that everyone else is forced to act like they want.
That's not true, upon further inspection of the Luffy flashback, the people do not need to please the CD. The only reason they do it is so that they can say on visited their town. As everybody knows, the Goa nobles are pieces of shit. People aren't able to assault nobles, but countries don't need to follow their orders. The CD simply wont come if they don't like how a country is run, there is no real punishment.
http://www.mangafox.com/manga/one_piece/v58/c586/8.html
I was saying before more than half of the people think like that, but
I meaned just the authorities, not the public, so sorry for that.
Like said before many people may never heard of fishman and i guess most of them wouldn`t have anything against them, but those who can order what to do in a country who are approved by the WG still have that thinking of being the superior race and so the public has to act as they want.
By that the fishman should be confronted everyhwere with hatred which was my original point.
If you like fishman or not is not the case in the world of OP…the case is that you have to kill them when the authority orders it nd by that fishman may even get hatred of those who don`t think so.
The people who hate them are the people of Sabaody and the CD, neither of them have any actual authority. They also pretty much hate everybody else in the world who is not them, so fishmen aren't singled out.
Tom was so much respected that even after giving them the sea-train the whole town didn`t even thought a minute about the trueness of those recriminations against him.
There are almost no racial connotations in Franky's flashback. In fact I'm pretty sure his race is only mentioned like 3 times. Once in his intro box, once by Spandam and once by some random guy when he starts rampaging. The only one even worth noting is the random guy who calls him a "savage fishman". Yes, that is racist, but it is a form of racism far below the realm that we are discussing. He is basically just stereotyping Tom, but we're not talking about stereotyping, we're talking about persecution.
Don`t you think that Oda shows us such places(Goa Kingdom\Drumm\ID\EL) because he wants to make clear for the reader how the world is under the control of the WG.
Goa and Drumm are not representatice of the WG's policy, they're representative of the policies of one particular island. They seem to only loosely be affiliated with the WG. ID and EL represent the goverments evil, but that has nothing to do with their view on fishmen.
It shows that nobody is save from corruption and especially fishman, because they MAY can live on some islands a peaceful life, but as soon as a CD or any other authority comes near that island they`re in danger. So again, iam not saying everyone has hatred against them(many may have never seen one before) but those who have the power are mostly people who support the WG and by that agreeing to this terror they bring to that race, even when having "deals" which are in real life worth nothing..
No authority beyond the CD matters. Other higher ups have never been shown having a problem with fishmen. Also, as I mentioned, people have no obligation to make their island suitable for the CD, it is simply a choice in order to attract them.