I think the refugee parallel is clearly intentional. Personally, I find it heavy handed, one-sided, and not at all artistic in nature. It's a good/evil declaration. A way of making a modern day statement.
I would also point out that there's a letter in the Baldur's Mouth basement talking about making sure pictures of Gortash don't make him look too orange. Like a pumpkin. Doesn't take a lot of literary analysis to figure out who the tyrant in the game is representing.
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A story can be told without being this heavy handed. With letting the themes within the story grow organically and speak for themselves. So, I don't accept the "all stories are political" base line response.
But I also don't expect anything else. We've gone through years of this. It's not possible to drink a beer or play a game without someone dragging in their politics. Would that we lived in a different world, but alas, we do not.
