Grieve my black friends
Dude, the grieving process just gets prolonged because of how hard it is to make new friends as an adult. Like, great, now I’m sad AND lonely.
It is hilarious how accurate this is. Coming from a predominantly white country, our peoole have their own way to separate us in groups and hate each other.
I wouldn’t say that POCs wouldn’t do the same. It is just the humanity like this. Any big group if people would find ways to be grouped and to hate other groups. Only small groups will be friendly to each other.
No, colonialism made us like this. This is not human nature, not completely
Well, you ever heard about Rwanda? We all do the same.
Well, once upon a time, keeping tribes small, and being antagonistic towards folk who behave weirdly, were vital in preventing novel infectious disease from running through the population. We’ve seen recently the risk of a connected global community with COVID-19. The Spanish Flu epidemic also spread widely and killed up to fifty million people.
If your tribe gets an infection and you don’t like anyone else much, then it stays in your tribe, and the rest of the population is safe®.
If we can get past our differences, and develop large enough institutional infrastructure, then centralized disease control uses science and tracking to identify the bug and develop treatment. A good demonstration of this appears in the game Plague INC, in which you play an infectious disease, and watch how the global health sector detects you and responds.
Of course, it doesn’t work perfectly, as we’ve seen, there are vaccine naysayers. There were some during the 1918–1920 flu pandemic, as well. And as we’ve seen with the AIDS/HIV pandemic, if the initial batch of victims are not liked much, it can delay response by the scientific community. But large health institutions improve lifespan and quality of life overall.
Start leaving my house unlocked again.
I’m surprised the joke didn’t go straight for gingers…
It’s not a joke though.
Yep.
Why jump to eye colour when there’s ‘The Females’ issue to take care of.
Then there’s the categories of weight, and height. Nose length and width. Whether you poop standing up or sitting down. And it’s not just hair colour, you’ve got the frizzies to alienate as well!!Woah, woah, woah, only a …
Fantastic. But hey, my colleague is a ginger and I lived in Ireland. I got my ginger pass, you know? :,D
Yoooo maybe Jane Elliot was on to something
I call mostly bullshit on both. People will just go straight to xonephobia. They already are doing this. It’s just less visible than racism currently.
Also when you make a post against racism please avoid making a racist point no?
We do that already by hair color. Like, did you know red heads don’t have any soul? Just saying.
We still doing blonde jokes? I feel like I haven’t seen one since Miss South Carolina became the epitome of them.
I’d miss my wife 🥲
I’d spend the rest of my life looking for my kids.
Me too
We’d all miss their wife.
Probably would go back to discriminating by nationality or culture.
Italian jokes are back on the menu bois!
Irish jokes never left
And religion
We could all look exactly the same and all be Christian, and the Protestants and Catholics would gang up on the Baptist’s and Assembly of God and kill every one they can find.
… and they’d by delighted in their handiwork and brag to their grandchildren with pride.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years'_War
Eight million dead in the 1600s, they didn’t even have AK-47s. Protestant vs. Catholic. Same race.
That’s such a stupid question.
Funny how everyone thinks only white people are xenophobic and racist.
Well, in this hypothetical example only white people exist, so of course they will be assholes to other white people.
Find jobs for all the cops?
Hair color is easier to see from afar. That’d be first.
I’ve lived in a place that was “all white” and they divided themselves up by nationality. Poles, Ukrainians, Slovaks, Czech, Italian.
There would be bars people would avoid because they were harassed for not looking right.
This was in Scranton/Wilkes-Barre at the turn of the millenium. Since then there’s been an influx of Hispanic people and now all the “whites” hate them together.
Also Italians weren’t considered white either, in the late 1800s and early 1900s. They were above POC, but barely. They had to “prove their whiteness”. Also Irish were predominantly Catholic so fuck them too. Its why a lot went on to become police, to show they weren’t “filthy degenerate thieves” and served the community.
“No dogs No blacks No Irish”
Well, of course. Do you want a bunch of soulless gingers plaguing the earth?
It’d start out as more jokes, of course. And then over time you’d have to wonder more and more whether any particular joke was serious.
Ginger liberation!
For kids of all nations!That’s basically M.I.A.'s Born Free music video. It was really controversial back when it was released but now it seems prophetic.
We already did that one
Hair color is too easy to change. White people really value the immutable
Me chuckling with the inability to tan: “Who’s white now?”
Good news there. My hair is white, too.
Nah we already hate gingers
Check to see if the Asian people are still okay.
A more cynical answer is to buy as much property on the south side of Chicago as possible before the prices skyrocket.
Asian people will divide themselves by skin color, features or nationality, too. Not immune to racism. Its partly a survival instinct from the past that is rearing its ugly side.
