You’re a High Elf who joins the Stormcloaks because you want to split the empire. I’m a High Elf who joins the Stormcloaks because I respect the racism. We are not the same.
These were a people so motivated by hatred for the Sinistral elves that they literally learned how to split the atom with a sword and then proceeded to sink their own continent rather than continuing to share it with elves.
And then, upon finding a new continent to call home, they immediately got to work genociding the local Nedes, orcs, and "tall goblins."
And then, like you said, they wrote songs about it and made it their entire culture.
They should be at least on-par with the Nords, if not ever-so-slightly above them.
11:55 You're kind of undermining the Pelinal's Xenocide enthusiasm. Apparently his elvish massacres were so bloody god made it rain after the battlefields to wash out the sheer amount of gore and blood he left behind.