Can we be racist? [in Andromeda]

Did I ever hate that. Able to replay the first two games in the trilogy so much because not many games let you be an asshole and still actually accomplish things.

Even when you had someone die and were angry because something bad happened or you got screwed, your options were still like a children's cartoon. "Thats sad, but we must persevere!" would be under the "aggressive" tag for dialogue. 

There's a difference between being a cooperative asshole, no BS kind of character and basically having to be Scooby and The Gang or Hitler. That was kinda how it worked in DAI. The only time you got a "renegade" style option it was basically the worst thing ever.

Probably not, again the fact that we can be emotional/logical/professional/casual means that the main idea for which we only choose the tone is already preset for us. 

Seems like we only go backwards baby... 

I particularly enjoy playing an elf since it means I get to tell a lot more Humans to shove it.

That's actually a point I really didn't like about Inquisition. It's an established fact in the Dragon Age universe that Humans are largely racist pricks about Elves, but it's hardly even mentioned in that game. The only two mentions I can recall are a small bit about the quartermaster saying "if anybody gives you trouble for being an elf let me know" and the bit about the Chantry not being terribly happy about an elf leading the Inquisition. After that, you never hear about it again.

My Dalish Elf Mage should have gotten a lot more hate and subsequently been able to tell all of those people to go shove it than what I got in that game. Everybody just kind of accepted that it happens now that not only an Elf but a Mage was leading the Inquisition.

I most play sarcastic characters so I don't know how much of the "renegade" was crap, but I don't really remember any "Scooby and the gang or Hitler" difference in the choices. Any examples? 
And as I said, I believe we will be able to be asshole. Maybe a dose of "punch someone you don't like in the face" style.

I liked the DA2 style, if they made it like that but with more options I will be happy.

Everyone in Thedas is racist as fuck! Humans hate most elves, have distrust of dwarves, despise the qunari. Elves hate all humans, indifferent to dwarves, not a fan of the Qunari. Dwarves like dwarves and even hate some dwarves and all non-dwarves. Qunari either are rogues who don't care about the Qunari, or are so fiercely loyal they'd bite into the skull of a baby like an apple if they were told.

Then in DAI, the most you get is a "Hmm, idk about you" like three times in terms of mistrust at any point in the game really. It watered down the interesting cultural dynamics in the game so hard.

I'd have to go back, but I remember some stuff during the Celine/Gaspard thing being so weirdly one sided. There was something with an elf sideplot where the options were "be besties, be besties, be besties or commit genocide" There were other moments I remember having, but not the specifics since I haven't touched that game since I finished it that holiday season.

You forgot to add stealing armor

IDK, I don't really get that impression. Agree/Disagree is also an option, they also mentioned that there would be some natural tension between you and Cora, and politics and religion could come into discussion. Seems like there's at least some potential in those areas to be a dick. 

What is this natural tension you are talking about?

It actually doesn't make much sense in this situation. Why would anyone who hates aliens join the Andromeda Initiative, something which is a multi-species venture? It would also seem to be in the A.I.'s best interests to screen out those sorts of people.

To compare it to the real world, you wouldn't want a hardcore nationalist that can't work with foreigners as an astronaut. Psychological screening would also be a big part of the selection process for a Mars mission, because the entire trip including time spent on the Martian surface would take at least 2 and half years. The Andromeda Initiative is on a journey that takes centuries.

On that note I hope the writers come up with other conflicts besides character from species A doesn't like species B, at least within the Andromeda Initiative. It may make some sense for their to be some tension between the Andromeda natives and the new arrivals.