Shen: King of Digimon
Previously Shen: King of the Mist
Hatred and bigotry?
The dude opened fire on them first. There was no questions. He belittled them, and forced them. You can't convince me that he's a "good guy". His ulterior purpose could be acheived in a far more peaceful way and he immediately goes to brainwashing humanity and violence. Not to mention all the atrocities done to monkies have likely been done to humanity too. By themselves no less!
He's not even a bad guy in the way of "I'm bad and that's good, I will never be good and that's not bad." He's just convinced that he's the good guy, but unlike Negan who at least realizes the error of his way at some point, Specter keeps flinging his head at a wall and expects it go good. He's almost a cartoon character. Which given the game he comes from isn't surprising.
Not to mention he's a massive hypocrite. Why should he be offended at people trying to strike back at him when their species is "enslaved"? That's exactly what he's doing. In the end, it seems he's doing this not for his species but because the helmet told him too and he wants to do excercise his power.
Are...are you trying to make us hate him? Because it's working.
To answer your question: halfway yes and halfway no.
His explanation is essentially a cultured way of beating around the bush. In all honesty he just want some the horrors of what humanity did to his kind to be dealt back to them tenfold. He just has a nack for talking up a good front.
He did say that they experiment bioweapons and experiments on his kind to war with other humans, so he calls that a primitive purpose. He accepted that human on human violence is a thing, and deemed it barbaric