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.
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
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.
all people have like 99.9% of their DNA in common, that hasn’t stopped them from waging wars in the past.
There’s still Religious bigotry… That’s worked as an alternative for eons
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.
A see a few people here saying “they” when we should be using “we.” Just by using “they” you’re exhibiting the mindset of “they, not me” and “us vs them.” Racism is just one facet of it.
People will argue about something else. You can change the parameters of the simulation but you can’t change the outcome.
Race was invented by them to divide us. They’ll just invent something else.
They already use gender, sexuality, nationality, anything really. Race is just one of many strings on the harp of bigotry.
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.
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
We are all the same race we are just different colours. Can you imagine any other animals fighting over their looks.
Or better yet, everyone appears to be whatever the new mono-race is, but in mirrors and other reflections and photos, racists see their least favorite race.
That way they still get to suffer.
No, we’d simply find some other difference to get divided on.
Exactly. This is why people say race is a construct.
If we all became the same race then some self labeled ingroup would construct (i.e. create) new criteria to label others as an outgroup eventually creating new races.
It’d be regions/land-based, probably. “Southern pride,” etc…just without the racism. Fuck those star-bellied sneeches across the river.
Glad that you brought up the Sneeches!
And I hear those damn Zooks eat their bread with the buttered side down.
I vote we use wealth.
Unfortunately it’s the wealthy people who decide.
It’s intersectional: the wealthy early birds. They would make the decision while us night owls sleep
It’ll ultimately just lead to even more discrimination against the poor
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.
In the show All In The Family, Archie isn’t just bigoted against non-caucasians; he’s bigoted against the polish, Irish, Italians, etc… He’s less bigoted against those groups than he is against non-whites, but still bigoted. He’s also bigoted against catholics
Or people would simply be divided over what race they used to be.
After a few generations, they’d start to forget
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.
The British have never needed race to start fights with the French.
Fucking Gauls.
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 won’t use 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.
