Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-11344160-20160205154012/@comment-26888947-20160217193349

The argonians in Riften work at the docks because that is the work they are most suited for and that they want to do, not because they are forced to. The fact that the innkeepers in Riften are argonians speak volumes to them having the freedom to choose other occupations.

While in windhelm many argonians may still choose to work at the docks,But not all would want to. Yet all but one of the argonians who live in Windhelm are practically confined to the docks. No argonians own property no just within the city, but around it either. All argonians, exept on who works for a farm just outside the city, work for the docks. And they all live in a crowded one room bunk house type building. Think about it, other then the dragonborn, have you actually ever seen any of the argonian dock workers within the city walls? I never have seen it with my own eyes, the only time it can happen as far as I know is during the blood on ice quest when the game randomly selects a female npc with the Windhelm resident tag to be the killers next victim, the game can sometimes select certain female argonians and places her in the market to be attacked. Since none of the argonians ever enter the walls of Windhelm otherwise this is nearly 95% an oversight on the developers end. So in summery while nothing comes right out and screams it the general story and design chooses behind windhelm heavily implies that the agronains and to a lesser degree the Dummer of Windhelm are in fact oppressed.