Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-24037808-20140924094901/@comment-6078851-20141002140438

there's maybe some misunderstanding when i say emps was a warmonger: it's almost certain that war was the only way to accomplish what he did (in the grim darkness, there is only war), and i'm not saying he wasn't a unifier, he was the single greatest intellect, commander, warrior, and unifer, in human history, but he achieved it all through war, which makes him a warmonger: the definition of warmonger is simply someone who encourages war.

xenophobic is the techincal term for racism. the unwavering hatred the imperium has towards other races is racism. racism is when a species (race) hates another simply for being a different species (and often that's all the imperium needs to do what they do - 'they're not human, so they must die'). technically the real world term racism, racist etc, is actually a misnomer since there's only 1 race of humans on earth - homo-sapian. despite the obvious differences within the human race we're all the same species, but many people just like to hate and the attempted justification of such hatred is that someone/people are of a 'lesser' race. this is another reason why i dislike the imperium, because if it's not the same race it's automatically a lesser race and an enemy, regardless of a species being peaceful.

this blind hatred isn't just the domain of the imperium though, eldar, dark eldar, necrons etc, are just as xenophobic, and if a species continually tries to kill your species then by all means hate them for that, but as a human i hate to see humans (in reality or fiction) blindly hating just because someone/something is different (while the imperium is influenced by a lot from our history the feel i get from them mostly is pretty much 'space-nazi's'). while i don't know much about the interex they are/were my favourite empire in which humans lived: all-inclusive and peaceful but very capable of defending themselves, and they were a thriving multi-species empire, who knew about the perils of chaos... then they encountered astartes who brought the taint of chaos with them (erebus).