User blog comment:Hippogriff12/The Scarcity of Racists in Skyrim/@comment-4113369-20120727095321/@comment-4588723-20120728013256

@ Anon 80.216.219.47 has crystallized the important distinction on this subtopic, there is a significant difference between species and race, which logically negates much of the judgmental buzz about Mer and Men being "racist" toward each other, which in reality has no meaning - they are two separate types of beings with sharply contrasted views of the creation myth and themselves as self-aware persons, vying over thousands of years over the same plots of land. It's not a race war, in the view of each the other is alien, in the truest sense of the term.