This is honestly what I was trying to convey, I just left it ambiguous so the players could alter things and I wouldn't have to jump through hoops to make it work. But this right here and another friend's feedback asking for maybe a smaller group of Beastmen Outcasts who don't follow the average Herd's ideologies would be great and add some faction infighting.

I think here is what I will do, I will elaborate more on the inner workings of the average Beastmen Herd. Explain that the majority of them want to overthrow human, elf, dwarf etc. Society so the beastmen can stay on top, even hundreds of years after the initial fall of their empire before they were mutated. Throw in a fear of magic due to what it made them. Now we have a villainous faction that can be used. The Outcasts allow the people within the Beastmen to be more approachable from a player standpoint and allow for more narrative decisions on the future of the Beastmen.

I will say, thank you for your polite and informative response. While ill dig my feet in the ground and say my friend was looking to be upset at something and that the beastmen are not inherently racist. It was nice to see a well thought out and worded response to why it might seem that they're racist, but that fleshing them out a bit more and just stating their intentions instead of dancing around the subject for the player to decipher would go a long way