It annoys me how the Quarians are treated with such disdain and racism over what happened with the Geth and the tragic loss of their homeworld.
It is because the quarians chose to be insular migrants rather than finding suitable planets to build a colony where they can rebuild their civilisation, become contributing members of the galactic economy — batarians have no problems trading with other races outside Council space — and eventually adapt to a new environment that they are treated with suspicion and disdain. As the geth had said, “The home of the creators is where the creators are. Their place of origin is not relevant — only where they choose to go together.”
Just to remind OP of some of the things the quarians are known for other than the geth, all from the codices:
Codex: Aliens: Non-Council Races: Quarians
Other species tend to look down on the quarians for creating the geth and for the negative impact their fleet has when it enters a system.
Codex: Aliens: Non-Council Races: Quarians: Economy
The quarians earn income in creative ways. Because the government is obliged to provide food, water, air, and medical support for every individual, the Conclave strategically determines the course of the Fleet to bring in resources and income. A species who suspects the Migrant Fleet is heading towards their space often offers a “gift” of surplus starships, fuel, and resources to alter course.
As the fleet passes through the a system, swarms of mining vessels work over asteroids for metals and siliceous materials and cometary bodies for water ice and organics. Quarian miners are adept at locating and strip-mining space-borne resources. This sparks conflict with corporations already working the system. Large mining concerns spend millions on lobbyists and public relations portraying the quarians as locusts, devouring the resources of a system before moving on.
The greatest asset of the quarians is their rarefied skills. Most are experienced miners. Due to their life of perpetual salvage and repair, they are skilled engineers and technicians. More than once, they very corporations that lobby against the quarians have made back room deals with the Fleet, arranging for skilled quarians to fill space engineering jobs that other species would demand higher wages for. Quarians are widely hated among the working classes. “The quarians are coming to take our jobs” is a common response to the Fleet’s approach.
It would be a wonder that any race would welcome the quarian Migrant Fleet into their system given such a history. Whilst I am sure that the Fleet’s actions may not be as terrible as a lobbyist might describe it, were the Fleet to arrive in, say, an asari-controlled system and then immediately proceed to strip mine asteroids within that system for resources — asteroids which may have been slated for exploitation by asari corporations — thereby completely going around the system already in place, I could not blame the asari of that system for being incredibly peeved with the quarians, wanting them out ASAP, and harbouring bad feelings for them later.
What happened with the Geth was an accident, meanwhile you have the Batarians enslaving people, the Turians and Salarians unleashing the Genophage among other things and well pretty much a lot of what humans have done is not always ethical.
The quarians were kicked out of the Council — unlike the batarians, who chose to leave the Council because of disagreement of relativism vs universalism over slavery — because they defied the Council ban on building AIs. This is the only action by the quarians which could be deemed an accident and the Council was right to penalise them for doing so. (Note that the quarians tried to keep this under wraps through martial law and did not approach the Council until they were driven offworld.) The Council similarly made a decision to not intervene in the quarian/geth dispute because the geth were not a threat to multiple races. This is unlike the rachni, who were threatening all Council races following the activation of a dormant mass relay, or the krogan, who were expanding rapidly and threatening asari and, later, and turian worlds, and all but declaring war against the salarian and asari Council.
Since you wish to compare the quarians’ illegal act with the acts of other races: The krogan did what the salarians engaged them to do — destroy the rachni. The salarians were a part of the Council at that point, so there is no way that the asari were not in agreement. The turians did what the Council engaged them to do — suppress the krogan. The salarians who gave the turians the genophage were a part of the Council at that point, so there is no way that the asari and salarian Council did not condone their action. The turians were even granted a Council seat for their success. Aside from splittist/isolationist terrorist organisations officially condemned by the human government — and whose most disgusting acts have all been against humans rather than Council races — we have yet to be shown that humans have done anything in violation of Council law.
Out of all the races, the Quarians were generally the least racist of all the species.
This is in no way supported by the game, and playing which race is the most racist when we’re shown such a small pool of individuals of the various races seems futile. What is supported is the intense racism felt by many quarians toward the geth — the people they created and whom many would deny an existence for no reason than their fighting for their lives when their creators tried to destroy them.
But we can say who has been demonstrated to be the least racist by fact of not having the emotions to hold such hatred: The geth. “Geth believe all intelligent life should self-determinate.” “Organics fear that which is different. It is a hardware error. A reflex of your flesh. We accept the creators’ hate.” “Organic history suggests they will continue to hate us [….] We do not hate them. We want to share experiences as equals.”
I feel like the way they get treated is hypocritical and it pisses me off.
It’s valid that you might feel that way given the skewed manner in which you already view the quarians by blinding yourself to their faults.
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