User blog comment:ScholarOfTheScrolls/Ulfric Stormcloak is NOT a racist./@comment-29458028-20140808135535

Well, Draevan and Zipper should be banned from replying to each other...

Honestly, I noticed what you said in game SotS, you covered the parts about the Argonians and Dunmer pretty decently. But more to add to the fact that the Stormcloaks are not racist, by comparing what they did to IRL:

1. Not helping out when a Dunmer or Khajit Caravan gets attacked, but helping when a Nord village gets attacked: Basically a very easy military strategy. Why waste the precious resource called troops protecting random guys who might fight against you the next day and don't contribute? A village is important, it provides resource such as food and materials, unlike a caravan which provides nearly nothing. Ulfric would be an idiot not to protect villages, expecially villages that supply him with men as well. (I wrote this better somewhere else, forgive me if I made hasty explanations). Being Skyrim, it isn't suprising that most villages contain mostly nords. This is definitely not racist in any way, but rather a series of coincidences that might be misinterpreted.

2. Ulfric butchering of the Fosworn during the Markath incident: He is simply killing his prisoners of war, which seems unethical to us, due to our comfortable lives and UN regulations, but in game world, doing such is also a basic military strategy - POWs might revolt someday and you need to feed them, give them prison cells and fulfill their basic needs. Might as well get rid of them if you can't spare land for prisons, men for prison wardens and can't win them over. It is not so much a racist act as a rational choice carried out by a general with limited resources.

3. The imperial's justification to kill the player character is the same justification that Ulfric used on the Fosworn. Thus, both use "guilty by proxy" as an excuse. The empire is no less barbaric than the Stormcloaks and both a barbaric, not racist.

(Just because they are justified in the tight situations they face does not make them right morally, a reminder to all. Just like if you and a friend were stranded on an island with no food and your friend died, you might eat him to survive, which makes it justified, but it is still immoral and wrong.)