I can only wonder how much "over-playing" the game plays a role in the the antipathy many express towards the companions. Everything becomes accentuated when stuck for so long in an unhappy marriage of sorts.
Lae'zel is a fascist...which is fair, because she's githyanki.
Know your ideology. Fascism isn't about race, it's about the state and the collectivist view of the citizens belonging to it - like other socialist ideologies. She is a githyanki and as such, indoctrinated into a racial supremacist.
It's a case of an overlap to be honest. Racial supremacy is often a philosophy espoused by fascist states.
Fascism is fascism. National Socialism is national socialism. Both are Socialist ideologies. The class conflict Marx predicted would transpire in Western industrialized nations first, failed to occur sending Socialism into a crisis that saw the birth of two variants; Fascism and National Socialism. Both rejected the Marxist dogma of class conflict and the worker's dictatorship instead opting for citizenship in the case of Fascism, or ethnicity in the case of Nazism, to be the unifying/polarizing factor for the struggle for supremacist power. Fascism is fundamentally not a racial ideology, certainly less racist than Marxism and much less racist than Nazism. Marx was an ethnic Jew and an ardent anti-semite who considered capitalism and Jewishness inextricably linked. Jews were capitalists and Capitalism was Jewish, thus the term "Jewish Capitalism" that Hitler latched on to. I could go on to categorize today's Neo-Marxist hyper-focus on race, but that would likely derail the entire thread lol. I understand the deep-rooted desire to obfuscate the issue and preserve the current false dichotomy status-quo, so let's agree to end it there.
Realizing "wow, my people are terrible" is a protagonist deal mostly... and protagonist is the PC position.
Certainly both the original Baldur's Gate series and D:OS2 had dynamic companions which were capable of fundamental change. For better for worse. I would argue this is a vital part of what makes a BG-game Baldur's Gate. Consequently, I fully expect this being the case of the BG3 companions as well. Shadowheart seem the most likely candidate with the Shar/Selune-theory. Lae'Zel seems a tougher nut to crack. Would have liked to see Larian deal with the gith as they did the drow and incorporate both "variants", only to see her reaction. Not sure she or the PC would live to see quest branches from such an encounter though
