"Zootopia is constantly asking its characters to look past species stereotypes, and not to use species-ist language or repeat hurtful assumptions. This all seems clever and noble until you realise that all the stereotypes about various animals are to come extent true, in particular the most basic one carnivores eat herbivores because it’s in their nature”
Some Warnings;
This is me going full schitzo-autist on a funny animal movie from 2016, AT LENGTH.
None of my commentary is aimed directly at modern headlines or intra-group relationships, but the parallels are obvious and are absolutely necessary to the film itself, so its impossible to talk about it in detail without mirroring some of that stuff.
So BE WARNED, this is what you are in for. If you don't want to read about that then stop reading!
That's the problem with every setting that's narratively trying to be about racism but at the same time ontologically validates it by making a fantasy ethnic group inherently monstrous. I think the only real way around that is either to just not do the "some fantasy ethnic groups are just ontologically monsters" thing and instead use baseline, normal humans carrying out pogroms as the real monsters (like Shadowrun or BNA), or to just throw away any pretense at having a point like Beastars did where it's just openly a mess of incoherent coding based on the author being horny for Scar from The Lion King.
Me and my endless rewrites of what 40k would look like if I were in charge of the writing team.