User blog comment:Zippertrain85/Why the Stormcloaks are right./@comment-7953253-20130505074859/@comment-6573099-20130505134338

I find myself agreeing more with Lord Hadron here, for several reasons. One, evidence presented in Sovngarde does suggest a regret for fighting empire, as it weakened the legion. this doubly frightening when some conversations with General Tullius suggest the empire is planning to strike back. As stated in the comments below, Brunwulf Free-Winter says that Dark elves and other foreign races are treated with less respect by the nords in Windhelm and the surrounding territory. You can say "it is because of the war" that many of the attacks go unnoticed, but if Ulfric is able to send guards to investigate attacks on Nord caravans, why is it hard to investigate the attacks on other races? Also, if there is no racism in Windhelm, then why do the dark elves in the grey quarter live in such squalid slum (I can also kind of remember that there are few guards that patrol there). Besides that, the reactions given to the player by galmar when you look to join are racially charged, asking why someone of your race wishes to fight. Finally, the point about Ulfric regarding every race the same is null and void in this arguement. Developers cut corners everywhere, simply look back one game in the series to Oblivion and count everything not present in Skyrim. And before someone exclaims "those things they removed were unneeded and unimportant" riddle me this: why were classes removed, or birthsigns, or spellcrafting (Todd Howard gives a lame excuse for this one in some article somewhere), or mysticism, or disposition, or any number of other features. But I rest my case.