I can't tell due to my very narrow range of stories I actually know anything about, but what I'm getting is at is this:
Stories about enslaved humans rising up against their oppressors, which just so happen to be non-human entities of some kind (elves, aliens, lizardpeople, dragons, what the fuck ever): Cool, noble, inspiring and good.
Stories about enslaved non-humans rising up against their human oppressors: Not good, very bad. The heroes need to put a stop to this evil uprising.
So is this actually a common thing others have noticed or am I just making assumptions based on my very limited knowledge?
Even the "good old days" of Warcraft had some of these :brainworms: . The Orcs rising up and breaking free of the Alliance's concentration camps (yes, that's what they were), killing the concentration camp guards, seizing the means to escape, and reasserting their ancestral heritage and founding a new nation had to be seen as a "pros and cons, both sides equally right and wrong" liberal thing instead of the big :JB-shining-aggro: moment it ought to have been, through and through.