User blog comment:Spritydove/Deeper Thought into the Civil War/@comment-5135631-20120707164515/@comment-1080767-20120714053559

Way up there, someone mentioned that the Empire is racist in that they removed Hammerfell from the Empire. I'd like to point out that that claim is invalid. That incident was because Hammerfell was violating the terms of the White-Gold Concordat by continuing war with the Aldmeri Dominion, so the peace treaty would be void if they allowed a part of the Empire to continue resisting Thalmor. The only other options they had would be to aggravate the Aldmeri Dominion and risk the Thalmor exacting revenge to some capacity, or to declare a war and, as per the pattern thus far, probably lose.