I also have no idea, to be fair.
As the OP said, racism has always been a driving factor in the Warcraft universe. Garithos was an extreme and very direct case of racism, of course. Not every human will really hate a High Elf as much as he did. Most donât, but itâs up to the roleplayer to decide what his character thinks of them.
But the wars waged on Azeroth were mostly founded on racism (bar the wars where we fought cosmic forces and evil super-villains).
The very reason why the Horde exists is because itâs a product of racism, prejudice and exile. We, as the player, got to know that the Orcs drank demonic blood and became minions of the Legion. But did the humans during the First & Second War know this? Did the Draenei?
And what about the Forsaken? Their name even suggests that they were cast aside by those they called family once.
And if itâs not the Alliance hating the Horde (for racist reasons), then itâs, for example, trolls hating each other. Troll tribals do not get along with one another. Zandalari look down to them, âŚ
I never understood how people think that âracism is badâ in Warcraft, when itâs the driving factor of faction hatred and so on.
Perhaps itâs the homogenisation of races within a certain faction that led to this view. Nowadays, we just have so many different races in both factions that it might lead to the impression that everyone is now very tolerant and accepting (when that is barely even the case, especially if we look at the current state of the Sunreavers who were Sylvanas-loyalist to enact revenge against Jaina and the Alliance).
Especially with the main narrative after BfA, with Anduin coming into spotlight, trying to achieve peace between the two factions, a lot of people probably get the impression that the races are ânot so different after allâ and âbecause we banded together once, we can just cast aside the entire history of bloodshed and fight as brothers and sistersâ.