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They'd still argue over religion. And what sports team they cheer for. And whatever else the billionaire owned media could decide to distract them with.
If I really wanted an excuse to hate people, I'd hate people who make dumb complaints about movies
People who can't dont their blinkers
People with no regard to those around them
People who litter or don't clean up after their dog
The list goes on.
But To be fair, why was Gandalf the White just waiting around in the forest for Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas to stumble upon him?
Bro thought he was dead and in the wizard afterlife.
Turns out he was already there. There is no escape frome middle earth for a wizard.
No, we'd simply find some other difference to get divided on.
It'd be regions/land-based, probably. "Southern pride," etc...just without the racism. Fuck those star-bellied sneeches across the river.
And people would also track down and document what race people used to be before the change happened so that they could keep on hating too.
Or people would simply be divided over what race they used to be.
Having lived in a majority white city where they divided themselves between countries of origin, this would happen.
Until a large Hispanic influx northeast PA had Italian sections, Irish sections, Lithuanian sections, Polish sections, etc. When my ex’s grandmother met me she asked me “what are you?” despite us both being white.
Uh we are the same race. There do not exist multiple human races in any biological sense. So what would happen is what is happening now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_categorization)?wprov=sfti1
Virtually all racism boils down to colorism
Don't forget that people hated the Irish too. Color ain't the only reason.
Let me tell you a bit bout a guy that I've seen.
A man known as Sylvester McMonkey McBean.
Every now and again he'd head towards the beaches
Carting along his machine, for the sneeches.
When did Dr. Seuss get so woke...
Idk man. The Sneetches “got really quite wise on that day”, but they still never guillotined Sylvester McMonkey McBean.
That, mate, is the best comparison.
It seems the sneetches wisdom knows very specifically defined bounds
There is only the human race. Any differences in appearance is less that a % of genetic difference.
Fun fact, there is more genetic variation within Africa than there is in the rest of the world combined. This is because only a small lineage of humans ended up migrating out of Africa.
The modern concept of race was invented in 1684 by this guy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Bernier?wprov=sfla1
It's been utter bullshit from the start
"Our"
I've ever only seen Americans and random racists use the term that way. Most of us agree that we're one race.
Are you kidding? I've heard Scots and English vilely denegrate Welsh, Germans denegrate Saxons, English denigrate black people...on and on and on.
Black people denigrating blacker people, Indians denigrating darker Indians, and so on. Yeah, we're tribal, evolved that way.
These people all bent over the word "race". Meh. Give it a rest. The word used to be in common parlance, now I never here it IRL, despite being told us Southerners are the most racist people on Earth.
Hahahahahaha, that's some funny shit right there.
Tell me you don't know what the nazies did in Eastern Europe without telling me you don't what the nazies did in Eastern Europe. Or how the Irish were considered in the USA, or the italians...
Or the Irish in the Uk, or whoever in whichever country. For me, my family (wife and kids) come first, then my neighbourhood, my village, my minucipality, my country and so on. It's the same for everyone, which is fine as long as you acknowledge it and act accordingly.
I wish, but no.
For one, they would blame religion.
Barring that, they would find any other differences among us to blame.
Barring that, rich people will use their power and influence to make sure we find some way to blame each other instead of them.
The main reason why we refuse to blame rich people for our problems is because most of us want to be the rich people causing the problems. Until we can get that idea out of most of our heads, we shouldn't expect these problems to be solved.
I don't have much hope, personally.
Twist, it is a completely novel race, no one looks normal anymore
I'd like for everyone to have green skin and antennae
I was thinking less alien, more realistic.
Maybe everyone is now a vaguely human looking Dusky Leaf Monkey.
Imagine the skin color patterns, being extra hairy, and looking somewhere between cute and uncanny valley.
No we'd come up with something else. We need to gene edit everyone to edit out the tribalism gene and replace it with a "we're all in this together" gene.
Race is just one tool the parasite class uses...
There is gender and ethnicity and religion...
Possibilities are endless!
You... You really think we wouldn't find some other trivial differences to get overly tribal over?
Nah they would just invent new races. What's the point of race? What does it mean exactly? Notice that the races in the US at least roughly align with economic classes.
That's not an accident. Obviously without the concept of races, people would still have different skin color and hair, but the implications would be entirely different. Culture, neighborhoods, etc. wouldn't be separated. And most importantly, it would be ever so slightly harder for rich people to make the majority feel like they're in the same group as them as opposed to some "other".
So if there was only one race, the rich would need to invent new ones.
Race was invented by them to divide us. They'll just invent something else.
Absolutely. Religion, language, country of origin, gender, age, there’s no shortage of useless ways to divide people. Our differences aren’t the issue, the issue is the rich and powerful exploiting our differences to pit us against each other.
They already use gender, sexuality, nationality, anything really. Race is just one of many strings on the harp of bigotry.
Indian hate goes up whenever india related policies go into effect, trump tarrifs india and no one gived a fk since all day see is normalized indian hate for months prior
The British have never needed race to start fights with the French.
nah... equally looking people, indistinguishble from each other, have managed levels of hate high enough to attemp genocide
Right. Like, can you imagine what society would be like if we let bald people vote? /s
That demon is left handed!!!
that animal has a unibrow!!!! to the pitchforks
First, we are only one race
Second, outside of certain countries overly obsessed with skin colour, we in the rest of the world have other ways of hating each other: cultural background, religion, economical status, education.
Damned good question! Without a visible "other" to point at we'd at least be a long step closer to seeing the real enemy.
To everyone speculating that we'd find other ways to break into tribes, how does it look in racially/ethnically homogeneous countries? I'm American so I only know what I read online.
Look. I live in a small town. The people one town over are dumb as fuck and ugly inbreeds.
They say the same about us.
See the problem? What we need is for the fucking psychologists to step up their game and develop bulletproof tests for sociopaths.
Keep them out of positions of any power and we're well on our way for a golden age of humanity.
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