User blog comment:Hippogriff12/The Scarcity of Racists in Skyrim/@comment-173.20.179.52-20120727011401/@comment-5135631-20120728135923

@Anon OP, there are two racists in the town, Rollf and Argenor, two racists. Of course that is wrong to be genuinely racist, but most citizens of Windhelm are either neutral towards immigrants or, if they have xenephobic opinions, hide them well. If we want to compare this to reality, which we shouldn't, then it's not illegal for someone to think racist things, but it's illegal for someone to shout out racist sentiment in front of a big crowd of people, as far as I'm aware.

The Nords of Windhelm aren't racist, maybe Tobjorn is extremely xenephobic towards them, but he is in mourning, which may be a thin veneer of arguable justification, but it is still wrong. So, you have three racists in town, but Tobjorn's arguments are quite accurate to a point; Argonians are known to steal and not work as hard as Nords, though this is a bit of generalisation. I personally have nothing wrong with Argonians, but if they steal, then that's wrong, which gives Tobjorn a bit of a reason to pay his workers less than his Nord ones who are less likely to steal and more likely to work hard.

The Argonian owners of the bee and barb in Riften do business with the Thieve's Guild, which is a crime. An Argonian outside the docks is a skooma addict, and all Khajiit caravans sell Skooma or Moon sugar, despite denying being drug dealers. That's not to say I hate Khajiits or Argonians, it's just Imperial sympathizers should think a bit before leaping to defend them.