How would one write a good sci-fi story from a xenophobic viewpoint?

I mean, I want the theme of the story to be “this is a terrible ideology. Are y’all noticing this?” Like, I don’t hate aliens, I’m just nope. I will gladly let the aliens perform ethereal human surgeries, but my friend is somewhere in a cloning facility right now, and I want him back.<br><br>The catch is that I don’t want to come across as xenophobic. I want to state the xenophobic sentiment “aliens are just too foreign of a concept to live alongside” but I want it to be through the lens of a xenophobe in a way that the audience hears that and is horrified, not in a way that they hear that and agree with it. <br><br>I think anything that tries to come across as xenophobic turns a lot of people off, and that’s a problem if I want anything to be heard, so I want to write from the point of view of a xenophobe in a way that’s not off-putting. How do I write a scene where some alien with six eyes says “oh, we’re going to clone you so that you have wings, this will be the most efficient way to move through space,” and my reaction as the protagonist is “can I say no?”<br><br>I know that a lot of stories that are seen as sci-fi are actually space fantasy, and I want to work within a space fantasy framework but I also want to challenge the space fantasy framework, and so this story has to be sci-fi. I can’t write a story about why this ideology sucks, but then have magical realism in the background, because it would detract from the fact that the ideology is harmful, ya?<br><br>This is a story that needs to be told, and it’s a story that can’t be told if I’m going to write a story as myself talking about why xenophobia is bad. That’s boring. I want a character that the reader empathizes with, then when the reader empathizes with that character, I want to say “hey, this dude is a xenophobe and he’s totally in the wrong.”<br><br>So, how do you write from a xenophobe’s perspective in a way that it’s clear that’s a bad thing? And how do you write in a way that it’s not some cartoonishly evil villain but a normal person who thinks they are rational?