Extremely unpopular opinion: I hate quarians.

Kal"Reegar is the best quarian.
I prefer having Xen on the dreadnought instead of Tali

Once I met Kal'Reegar I became a Quarian lover...before that I could take them or leave them.

I generally prefer the Geth over the Quarians, but some of the Quarians are cool. Tali is a pretty good character. I think Kal'Reegar is awesome as well. Koris is also likable and I like his stance on the war over the other quarians. Raan isn't that bad either and Xen has Claudia Black voicing her even if she is crazy.

And generally I like playing as the female quarians in multiplayer. They have such cute and charming accents. But I don't have anything against the Quarians in general, but they aren't a favorite. Some of their arcs can be boring however. In ME3, the Rannoch arc is much weaker than the Tuchancka arc for example.

Me neither. I always go out of my way to achieve peace between the quarians and the geth. I remember feeling absolutely wretched the first time I played ME3 without having enough paragon/renegade points and a proper ME2 save (due my old pc's hard-disk dying) to convince the quarians to cease fire.

I felt that ME3 didn't portray them in a way that attracted empathy or sympathy easily. Firing on the dreadnought, refusing to cease fire and their treatment of the Geth (as seen in the geth server archives) was both atrocious and hypocritical.
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Don't know. What you say is correct, they are treat unfairly by other races while some others like... cof, cof... humans do things like they did.
For example, creating VIs that evolve into AIs. And then trying to kill it.
Yet you don't see humans being regarded as scoundrels of the galaxy. In fact the other races fear humanity because we are strong and can alter the status quo of the galaxy.
Which we do during the course of the game.

And we are the new gang around.

On the other hand the quarians are always pushing things to the limit.
Trying to exterminate VIs that evolved into AIs, experiments on captured beings, causing trouble along other species border, involving other races into their own problems.
There's also an allegory regarding the quarians to our own history, where leaders of other nations sometimes commit atrocities and even genocide but when inquired they think it was justified and for the greater good.

Remember your discussion with Hackett after the dreadnought mission? He states he understands the quarian desperation to recover their own world.
If the position is reversed, do we humans won't behave like them?
Like I said, I don't know.

I don't hate the quarians, in fact, I think their history is very interesting. But I always try to keep the goals in mind if I have to make a choice between them.
What's the purpose of our war? Who will give me the best resources if I'm unable to achieve peace between the two? Who will fight better on the ground? Who will fight better in the space?
The two sides have extremelly redeem qualities, is not an easy answer.

And since we are talking about them, I'm curious: are the geth "alive"?
They can be considered living beings?

The destruction of the quarians is heart breaking, but the geth dying is not easy to watch too.

I, too, got sick of quarians by the time ME3 finished. Tali being aboard Normandy in ME3, combined with her silly (but not unanticipated) promotion to admiral did much to turn me against them. Weekes' insistence that his waifu must be aboard was not a good enough reason for her to be a squaddie. Their ill timed war to retake Rannoch did the rest.

I guess I wouldn't mind seeing them, and all the rest of the missing MW species, in DLC or a sequel. (I'm not holding my breath.) I'm sure these quarians would have an outlook and focus different from those of the Admiralty.

I don't like them, at all. And I hate to have Tali onboard for three games. Sometimes I side with the geth just to avoid her on the Normandy, even if I can achieve peace between them, even if I loose a lot of assets

So, OP, if you find a way to like them, let me know!

Yeah... I did that one as well, but I prefer to recruit her and then let her die in the suicide mission. 

One of them was voiced by Claudia Black and another by Simon Templeman. Ergo they are great.

Yep. Had they did that shortly after the geth drove them off Rannoch, its possible they may have  adapted to whatever planet they're on by now. The geth/quarian conflict may never have happened as the reapers invade the Milky Way

As the OP, I need to clarify that I am not stating that real life inequalities should be ignored/I have no sympathies for the unfortunates and/or the oppressed. I was referring to QUARIANS, the imaginary race in the imaginary universe of Mass Effect, in case anyone's getting any ideas.

That being said, now I feel like I've taken this matter way too seriously than I should ever had. Hopefully this will be the end of the thread.