User blog comment:Hippogriff12/The Scarcity of Racists in Skyrim/@comment-5135631-20120727002834/@comment-5135631-20120728140855

Come on IGotsAName, the Redguard defeated the Thalmor, the Nords can as well, if you don't believe that, then think about all the advantages home fighting would bring for the Nords: shorter supply lines with more plentiful supply, quicker and maybe larger reinforcement, superior knowledge of geography and better resistance to the weather, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Ulfric doesn't sequester Dunmer to the Grey quarter because he doesn't like the colour of their skin, he does it because Windhelm is crowded enough as it is and the grey quarter has always been a slum, we know this because we know it existed before the Dunmer came, only it was called something different, the snow quarter. Of course the Dunmer don't like it, but they're luck that the Nords, their long standing enemies, let them into Skyrim. The reasons Argonians are at the docks is because if he let them in then they would fight with the Dunmer, the two races are at war in Morrowind, and he generally just needs an immigration cap, like every other city in the universe. Simple logic.

He is a nationalist, but that's not to say he's prejudiced, he might even be Left-Wing for all we know. He's just trying to reclaim Nordic culture, which the Empire might as well have banned. He doesn't want invaders like the Thalmor in his country snatching people from their homees and torturing them with little or no evidence, he wants to be free.

The Empire doens't get that bending the knee to the Thalmor is just going to make the Thalmor stronger in the long term, it's better to fight the Thalmor as nations of free men rather than establish dominion of one province over another, which will create more division in the long term than having one big Empire.

Talos worship is fine because it doesn't involve murder like the Forsworn's worship of old gods. Religious freedom is a freedom, how is it zealotry?