THE EMPEROR PROTECTS!

The Imperial concentration camp and totalitarianism, well it's 40K and indeed the worst that the Tau do is forced sterrilisation so there is that. And in dark crusade (the game) which is canon btw, if the Tau win they do sterillize the human population and trough different measures reduce their births.

The Imperium has fucking computers, they're the ones that choose to use vellum scrolls for the vibes.

As for computer usage. Of course the Imperium is not different from any other state and suffers from red tape. Putting aside the widespread fear of technology in the Imperium, there are other reasons for the administratum to not use computers, like the fact the Imperium computers can be attacked by scrapcode, so imagine that you need to protect billions of interconnected computers from hacking by scrapcode. Which is also why administrating the Imperium which would require billions of computers that would cost a lot of resources to maintain just to crunch numbers while the Imperium is already stretched thin. And if the Tau empire was a couple thousand years old institution that had to manage like half the galaxy it too would suffer from bloat and mistakes costing millions of lifes.

Again, this is the Imperium's own fault. Before the Great Crusade, there were lots and lots of other alien civilisations in the galaxy, and many of them were friendly. But the Emperor decided that everyone else had to go for humanity to ascend, and so all the aliens that were chill got steamrolled, leaving only the ones that could fight back against the Imperium to survive.

The genocide of xenos. Well if they couldnt stand against the Imperium of Man they would have never stood a chance against the other factions. And yes hindsight is 20/20 maybe the Empire shouldnt have killed them. But also if a god like entity which brought your species from total collapse told you that you had to kill xenos in order for your people to ascend would you refuse to do it? The same way, if the Tau leadership decided one day to simply rid their empire of other races for the greater good would the brainwashed Tau people say no?

And dont the actions of Tau empire validate Imperium of Man's xenophobia in the first place? The moment the Tau could, they started influencing Imperial planets and annexed them into their empire.

Oh that's a bad thing? Well fuck, it's sure great the Imperium doesn't view human lives as entirely expendable currency to be thrown at any problem in massive quantities then. Stupid xenos, don't they know that only the Imperium can view people as tools?

Well i just used Eldar as an example that they werent good either but i can also say that creating Slaneesh and causing the eye if terror to manifest due to their hedonism was evil too.

And well, Imperium of Man's most widespread and bountiful resource are people, of course they will use them most in their existential struggle.

Literally false. Just like, emphatically false. They're not an apartheid state, they have distinct subspecies that form different pillars of their society.

Tau Empire is straight up an apartheid state bro, sorry to break your bubble, the entire empire is designed in a way that places Tau above all else, it is a strictly hierarchical society, aliens like Kroot have their autonomy and such but are still completly subordinate to the Tau. This would be like saying that the Bantustans in South Africa and the fact that the white ruling minority interacted all the time with the black population meant that South Africa was not an apartheid state, and the black population was also a pillar of south african society wasnt it? They were employed the most in jobs which required least skill, so the respurce sector, that didnt mean they were equal to the ruling white minority. The etherals also literally use mind control to stop dissent. So YET again yes, Tau empire is an apartheid state that is using brainwashing. And Tau have the great diplomats of the water caste so of course they manage to convince planetary governors. The entire empire is also similarly to the Imperium of Man ruled by an elitist oligarchy which justifies its existance by saying that they are doing it for the greater good.

While the Tau empire is "equal" some races are more equal than others.

You're a tourist who doesn't know what they're talking about

Lol