User blog comment:Thedoucheinthenorth/A question of morality/@comment-4502503-20121212031059/@comment-4502503-20121212033628

While it may not be smart to take everything as canon it also isn't smart to take every choice you made in the game as being put there just to make the game equal for everyone. The reasoning behind my logic is simple. Have you ever seen a Dark Elf, Argonian, or Khajiit try to join the Stormcloaks? No. You've only seen your character try and join. Here's a quote from one of the Dark Elf NPC's in the Game: "It's not our war."

That is where the discrimination from the other Nords comes from. The other various races that inhabit Skyrim just are not willing to join the Stormcloaks. The old saying If you are not with us you are against us comes to mind. Now while this might be seen as unfair it really isn't. The Stormcloaks are trying to fight a war to regain there freedom to worship Talos, and to have the right to govern their own land.

The whole scenario is extremely similar to the U.S. during WWI. If you said anything bad about the war, or didn't do your part to help in the war you were discriminated against. It's not that the Stormcloaks are racist, they are just frustrated that none of the other races are willing to lend them a hand. Since the other races are not helping they are being discriminated against. If they were willing to help the Stormcloaks they wouldn't be discriminated against simple as that.