Just in case you were wondering: any piece of media that creates “good” and “bad” races (Skyrim, Fallout, LOTR, D&D, etc), is racist. Any piece of media that presents a single “good” member of an “evil” race, or in which the “evil” members of a race far outnumber the “good” members, is racist. Any piece of media that uses the fact that the evil races are permanently and unchangingly evil - even though there may or may not be exceptions! - to justify the genocide and extermination of that race, is racist.
This is not a Watsonian argument. The relative goodness or evilness of a good or evil race, in that piece of media, is irrelevant. The fact is, if you write a story that pits two different races against one another, and one is deemed good and one is deemed evil, that is racist.
It’s the biological essentialism
okay but the biological essentialism is only a thing in the fallouts bethesda had a hand in.
in fallout 1 super mutants were only just created and were being psychically controlled by their creator, but in 2 and new vegas after they're just people. ghouls too are just people in fallouts 1, 2, and new vegas.
