User blog comment:Thedoucheinthenorth/The Civil War - Why it is great/@comment-173.20.179.52-20121103020616/@comment-5135631-20121104030222

To quote Hippogriff12, the Dunmer aren't in a tough position because they look different or have a different accent or that no one wants to sit behind them on the city bus, the segregation isn't that simple because the facts aren't that simple.

Where I to say this about a real-life ethnic group, it would be racist. But Dunmer and Nords are not just different ethnic groups, they are different species. They are not born equal (I mean this not in the way that one is better than the other, I mean it that they have different skill sets and the larger part of their personality is defined by race, not freewill, though this does come in to play). Comparing this situation to real life is misguided and errenous (have I spelt that write?).

You can't compare the situation to black people in America not just for these reasons, but for others to; 1) discrimination in America was all across the South-East, an area around the size of Western and Central Europe. In Skyrim it's limited to just one city. 2) Segregation of black Americans was legal and official, whereas in Skyrim there is no mention of the subject in legal circles. 3) Humans are naturally inhibited towards the company of others. Thus even though black people wanted to break out of segregation they couldn't. Dunmer, despite all their moaning, are actually quite happy to be seperate from the Nords, as there has always been mutual distrust between these two species. 4) I remember there being no massive war in the 20's when the KKK was at it's height, so the situation could have been changed quite easily. In Skyrim there is a massive war that must take centre stage over species relations. 5) I see no Nordic lynching mobs stalking the Grey quarter. In the Jim Crow South they were everywhere until the 1950's.

If you want to discuss more how the most horrible, sickening and hypocritical racial crime of the 20th century (besides the Holocaust) is not only comparable to, but is a carbon copy of the natural evolvement of a relatively new Dunmer community in Skyrim that's suffered some injustice (quite a bit, actually, but as The Usual Thinker points out we don't know enough about the situation to determine a historical concensus on the level of an unbiased Tamrielic historian) then feel free, safe in the knowledge someone will tear it down again. I agree that the Nords take half of the blame for this, but much, much worse would occur to a Nordic migrant of Morrowind before Red Mountain. This is why I am cynical of Brunwulf Free-Winter because he prefers a race of slavers to his own. He is a fucking traitor. No wonder the people of Windhelm hate him.