The rich are the ones that make race into a problem.
If everyone spontaneously became the same race the world would realize that the rich are the real problem
Submitted 2 months ago by FenrirIII@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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queermunist@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
rational_lib@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
leftthegroup@lemmings.world 2 months ago
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.
jaemo@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Lol wot. You think we wouldn’t get all caste system in this piece son?
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
See also: The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K Le Guin.
the_mighty_kracken@lemmy.world 1 month ago
We would have war between gen z and millennials within a week.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Stupid.
Crampi@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
This would happen www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIcsk2ZoaTY&t=15
Siegfried@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Greed everywhere is the real problem. The rich are just successful in their greed.
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Humans never evolved past tribes.
grandel@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
We are all the human race
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No, you don’t need genetic differences for racism.
In fact, in most European languages the words “race” and “racism” are talking more about nationalities than about genetically different population groups.
For example, if you read German articles from the 1920s, they often talk about the “German race”, the “French race” or the “English race”. In most European languages the word “race” fell out of use after WW2 and the American meaning of the word “race” was re-imported later on. But the meaning lives on in the meaning of “racism”.
For example, in German a white person from Germany who hates everyone from France irrespective of their skin color is still a racist, while in the USA that wouldn’t qualify as racism.
That’s because neither the word “race” nor “racism” have a clear definition. “Race” is used entirely to discriminate “them” vs “us”. So “race” determines whatever group people in a country want to discriminate against.
In the USA this was clearly a “we, the while ex-european people” vs “them, the black former slaves” and “them, the asians” and “them, the south americans”.
So what would happen if suddenly everyone had the same skin color? People would just shift to the next best thing to discriminate.
Instead of discriminating against black people, just do what has been done in Europe for millennia: Discriminate against slavic people. (The term “slave” comes from “slavic”, because it was so common to keep slavic people as slaves.)
And if nations, religions, languages and regions of origin would also disappear as things to discriminate against, then it would shift to the next thing: people who went to a different school, have a different education or best of all: other types of poor people.
The issue is that humans are heuristics-based beings. Prejudices the result of learning. I’ve had 5 crappy HP printers, so I conclude all HP printers suck. Some friends have had terrible experiences with Fiat cars, so I avoid Fiat cars. I read in the newspaper that Nestle is destroying the planet, so I eat something else.
The problem is that if this is applied to humans, they get unfairly judged for things that are often completely out of their control. The core mechanism that we humans function on happens to be severely destructive in this context. But that’s also why it’s hard to impossible to get rid of racism and similar forms of discrimination because they are so centrally embedded in how we humans function.