User blog comment:Zippertrain85/Why the Stormcloaks are right./@comment-6336669-20130507202240/@comment-3217145-20130516084726

Everything you listed are gross over-generalizations that aren't even true in-game, and that's my point. That's just racism.

The Altmer don't have an "I'm more important than you" racial trait, as I said. They don't all genetically believe that. Some do, some don't. It's in their culture, or at least their government. And you're making the morally horrifying claim that because one group is racist, we get to be racist against them and they deserve it. My home is Japan, and it's full of varying kinds of racism. Yet everyone still says that American concentration camps were bad. Why? Because the Japanese people in America didn't do anything. They were accused of the crime of having genes. Justifying one type of racism by comparing it against a worse one is silly. They're both still bad.

None of that is true of Khajiit in Cyrodiil, since it isn't filled with racist yokels who don't let them inside the towns. And the Khajiit aren't a hive mind who all pledged undying loyalty at once. Their government did, and most of them probably followed, because the Thalmor used a powerful cultural symbol. Accusing the entire race of a crime is just racist.

That garbage about Argonians is laughable. When have they fallen under control of the Hist and suddenly committed terrible crimes out of nowhere? When did you see this in-game? Does anyone in-game claim this is a problem? The danger of that happening is exactly as real and relevant as anyone else choosing to do something crazy of their own free will. The fear is a completely self-invented excuse.