User blog comment:Longdead97/Ulfric's war effort & gaining support. Smart move or no?/@comment-80.216.216.52-20130328091203/@comment-64.62.132.253-20130329222559

For the whole species vs race thing: A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring.

In the Elder Scrolls universe there are several accounts of the varrious "races" interbreeding. this includes Man and Mer races breeding. There are notable viable offspring such as http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Agronak_gro-Malog the grey prince. There are even more vivid descriptions of interbreeding including Kaijit+dark elf and more found in the Barenziah series and yet more is implied in the lusty argonian serieis. I'm sure there are many more instances to be found within the lore across all the games so far as well.

As such I think it would be quite safe to say its Racism by the same definition you use "Hate of other Races in one species".

You could ofc argue the fertility of the resulting cases but that is never explicitly defined anywhere that I can recall off the top of my head and in either case is close enough that its really not worth arguing over.

The other catch is being a fantasy world the laws of the world is defined by the creators. Things like word definitions are contained within the world, if they decide to call a fork a spoon in that universe the pronged eating utinsil we would recognize as a fork is by the rules of that world a spoon. That is the recognised and accepted truth within that world.

By that fact, in the elderscroll universe Race could mean Specieis and that be the correct term to use by the laws of the universe being described. Reguardless of which method you take to explain it the end result is the same and the argument pointless.