Why don't Tauren join the Alliance?

You would need some sort of Tauren voice outside of Bains to make that claim.

While you can say that if you wish, the tauren tend not to get the face time required for the narrative to dwell on their internal politics. They are usually just a plot devise for tragedy, and then brushed aside. There is however that Tauren on his death bed who sends you to blow up the dwarven strong hold, which suggests not all Tauren are as forgiving as you seem to be trying to suggest.

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The same reason every other race presents a unified front: apparently there’s never any reason ever for members of an Alliance/Horde race to join the other side.

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This and adding to it: Thrall outlawed slavery, cannibalism for Trolls and some “darker aspects of Voodoo” (what ever that was. Perhaps humanoid sacrifices).

There was a pro war Taruen in BfA who mentioned Taurajo. Yes some are very mad about it in lore. Don’t forget one Tuaren tribe was wiped out by the Aliance. Also all the Alliance attacks on the Barrens and the great gate.

I’m not sure that’s true. Because he had to offer them amnesty. He’s still useless.

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In Universe: Closer to the orcs. Orcs are the Horde. Therefore tauren are the Horde.

Out of Universe: Giant cow men make more sense living in huts with green monster men than next to humans and dwarves under a mountain.

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Gameplay reasons.

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We had that voice.

During the very same war, an entire tribe was threatening to pack their things and leave the Horde because Baine was letting them be dragged further and further into Garrosh’s war against the Alliance at the expense of their own people’s safety, and it was presented as indicative that if they did so, it would likely lead to other tribes following suit for the same reasons.

Individual tauren are shown to harbor personal grudges for things like Taurajo, but unlike the orcs’ collective anger over the camps or the blood elves’ resentment over things like Garithos, the tauren don’t seem to share a monolithic attitude of vengeance when one group of them is attacked. Because they aren’t a monolith; they’re a bunch of different tribes previously scattered around Kalimdor and only recently gathered into a new nation, so there isn’t this baked-in “an attack on one tribe or one tauren is an attack on all of us” mentality.

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If you play the questline, there is a a general desire on the Taurens to take revenge. But you are kinda right, in that why do people talk about Taurajo when what happened to the Stonespire was worse.

But, in the end, it is mostly that Blizzard has the Alliance commit atrocities and then never mentions them again. Taurajo had some follow up quests.

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That’s probably because the Tauren don’t see Stonespire as commited by the Alliance itself, nor do they see it commited against Taurens as a whole.

Stonespire was committed by a single group of the Explorer’s League against a single tribe of Tauren. Neiher party was affiliated with their Racial Factions proper.
And since only the Stonespire Tribe had a interest in vengeance and the Stonespire got their vengeance, the Tauren generally consider the matter settled.

And the alliance apologism continues.

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They took revenge for it. But you could be right.

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I don’t think you know what that word means.

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An entire tribe was annihilated by the alliance. That’s a fact. Due the last member of the tribe committed his revenge but still it should a highlighted as the injustice it is.

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Well, yeah, the Alliance never criticizes these things, or supports anyone who is a victim, and is perfectly willing to benefit from them, but Blizzard always waited them as “not being Alliance”, so the Horde has to put with them while the Alliance carries on as heroes.

Meanwhile, they have Thrall apologizing for things that Sylvanas did even though he was in self-exiles at the time.

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You and I both know, we aren’t allowed to talk about such things. The alliance apologists don’t like it. Can’t have their hero power fantasy otherwise(you know Can do no wrong alliance)

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One of the saddest things about the Tauren is that with on-screen time, Baine has killed more Horde soldiers than he ever did any Alliance.

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Except that is a lie. It wasn’t the Alliance. At MOST, it was an operation of Ironforge themselves, but you’ll be hard pressed to prove that.

Ironic also that Tuaren later JOINED the very organization who was responsible of the Massacure so… I guess they aren’t too strung out over it.

An Injustice that was brought to justice when the one responsible and the Son of the one who ordered it was killed.
(Ironically, Twinbraid later would go on to join the Alliance invasion campaign of southern Barrens because of the injustice he experienced at the hands of the horde.)

And the Horde never criticizes the actions of Groups of Forsaken that do FAR worse, such as kidnapping Humans and conducting experiments on them.

(And canonically, the Alliance does send help to Auld Stonespire to aid him against the Quilboar.)

Wow… It’s almost like Sylvanas was the actual LEADER OF THE HORDE or something…

Oh great, now there’s another one who doesn’t know what “apologist” means.

And the fact that we ARE talking about it completely negates your point. You do realize that, right?

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By killing them you mean and taking revenge? What are you even talking about?

Disregard that. Was referring to something not canon

And then Blizzard makes the Horde evil while the Alliance continue as morally pure heroes with everything forgotten…

Because the Tauren fit more with the Horde than the Alliance. Plus it was also the Horde who helped them in Warcraft 3 and are Enemies of the Alliance due to the Alliance attacking them on slight.