It’s the typical chud thing of looking at hollow and disingenuous liberal messaging and concluding that the problem is that it’s attempting to be better and not that there’s a rancid core of implicit racism underneath it.

Like the liberal view on race and racism is still fundamentally white supremacist and orientalist, and their concept of anti-racism is like this patronizing thing where the point is demonstrating their own goodness and collecting sufficiently conformist minorities like pokemon out of perceived self-benefit, and not an actual principled opposition to bigotry, cruelty, and the violent consequences of an order built on them. So their messaging is inherently confused and contains this sort of “well yeah the monstrous other is inscrutable and alien, but perhaps a few of them may rise to the status of honorary humans” core to it.

This is why any sort of fantasy race thing beyond simple aesthetics has to fundamentally make all the sapient species people with competing material interests and inherited privilege, making for a commentary on class or imperial/colonial relations rather than an allegory for race and culture.