Poor Irish folk. I love the Irish. And while I've plenty of opportunity to watch blazing saddles it just doesn't appeal to me. Is it wrong of me to defend the Irish in light of my ignorance of this humorous show?
It'll just be the intra-European racism that already exists, which doesn't particularly follow skin color.
Germanic, Celtic, Slavic, Mediterranean, etc.. Each with their own subdivisions ready to go if the others were wiped out.
SeductiveTortoise10
As a man from that little village here, fuck those cunts from the village over there! Their fields are full of hamsters and their wheat smells of elderberries.
Tollana12345672
mediterreans would be darker skin, so they are the first targets. then it goes to anti-semitism in the end.
Tiresia3
Historically, no. In Germanic regions it's first Jews, then Slavs, then Celts, then Mediterraneans. Mediterraneans get credit for the Reniassance, Greco-Roman civilization and Christianity.
Blue_Morpho1
Mediterranean is too broad. Northern Italian and Greek were ok for Nazis.
Certainly not Libyans, Egyptians, Palestinians etc.
GreyEyedGhost6
I was going to say, some pasty motherfuckers who can't be exposed to the sun for 15 minutes without going to the hospital are going to say they're the superior people.
Delphia3
They tried, but everyone supported Macklemore.
smh2
Nah, as such a pasty motherfucker, other white people expect you to tan. I grew up being teased for my paleness and my neighbor offered to let me use her tanning bed. (I declined because I burn but don't tan).
My public school system was 100% white until my senior year of high school when a black family sent their kids to kindergarten.
EpeeGnome97
In no particular order:
Mourn the loss of numerous family, friends, and acquaintances.
Panic and prepare for the impending crash of my society's essential supply chains.
Existential meltdown at the idea that billions of people can vanish overnight.
What a stupid fucking question.
GloriousGasHole35
I'd probably start by trying to figure out what the fuck happened to everyone.
rbos69
Depending on your definition of 'white', probably start scavenging for the upcoming crisis. The loss of like 90% of the world's population will create a supply chain crisis and general systems collapse. Who knows what skills and technologies are lost.
DarkwingDuck-83
rbos35
I hope to the gods old and new that the winkyface means you are actually joking, not "hahah only serious" joking.
Something Burger 🍔28
Their comment history suggests they are being serious.
rbos19
Well, that one's getting a downvote, a user note, and a block.
;)
Hadriscus4
So glad I learnt how to add a note on Voyager. This is very helpful
nilloc2
Wait. How does this work? I can’t find these and I really miss tags I had in Apollo.
Hadriscus2
Make sure you enable them in settings ->user tags, "enable user tags". Then, go to a user page, unroll the top right menu and "edit tag"
TranscendentalEmpire15
Yeah.... Racist and a transphobe, who could have guessed?
DarkwingDuck-16
TranscendentalEmpire9
You have a middle schooler's understanding of the world around you, and that is being unkind to most middle schoolers.
phobia can also mean aversion, as in hydrophobic.....or an aversion to water.
Did your parents drop you on your head when you were younger? Or did you have to work to become so ignorant?
DarkwingDuck-10
wonderingwanderer2
You're afraid of the funny feeling you get in your parts when you see a hot trans gal
BurtReynolds9
Or just another pathetic, basement dwelling edgelord, spending his time looking to get a reaction by being an absolute moron. I have a hard time believing people are that stupid
Sharkticon0
For future reference if the username ends in @sh.itjust.works you can just assume the worst.
Noel_Skum1
Yes - 100% this. I can confirm I’m a total cunt.
DarkwingDuck-8
Protoknuckles17
You give Darkwing Duck a bad name asshole.
DarkwingDuck-16
StabbingSky9
They're both valid statements
JustPlainDave8
You are the reason nobody likes you.
Not_mikey8
Skills and technology won't matter when you starve because you don't have the hispanics doing all the agricultural work.
DarkwingDuck-13
Tattorack5
Excuse me, but what country provides the most printed silicon for chip manufacturing, and what ethnicity are they?
Now consider how much of our daily technology we take for granted makes use of that printed silicon.
That's just one example.
DarkwingDuck-7
Tattorack4
Rare Earth minerals and the skills and equipment to process them are not in the Western world. It is, however, in a grand multitude of countries elsewhere in the world, all of which wouldn't be considered "white". And... That covers everything from guided missiles to toys.
The most efficient production lines in the world, with the most advanced manufacturing capabilities, are in China. China sells the equipment and the skill to manage the equipment to its neighbours, and we get everything from clothes to tooth brushes from that.
The world has ONE, only ONE, major source of Gum Arabic, which is a country in Africa you've probably never even heard of. This includes the skills and expertise to manufacture it, and it's used in food and paint.
Do I even need to mention where the world gets the majority of its oil from, and where all the skilled workers and equipment is to process said oil? Or how important oil is to the world, even completely discounting its use as a fuel?
DarkwingDuck-4
Tattorack1
You exact quote was:
Given that it's only non-whites that are gone, no skills or technologies were lost ;)
Skills and technology can always be reproduced, more easily if adequate documentation exists. However, that is not your premise. Your premise is no skills or technology would be lost, which is just wrong. All of it will be lost, and whoever will be left will need to go through the long process of learning and reproducing said skills and technology, which can take multiple generations.
DarkwingDuck0
abbiistabbii58
This is your daily reminder that Irish and Italians weren't considered white at the beginning of the 20th century in America.
Hell, some people in Europe don't consider albanians to be white.
Also I'd be very concerned as to where all the racial minorities went. Like genuinely concerned.
ZoteTheMighty16
One of my favorite facts was that West Side Story was initially about the rivalry between polish and Italian immigrants in New York and Leonard Bernstein had to rework it because he received feedback that it would be too niche and people who didn't live in New York in a very specific window of time wouldn't get it.
TankovayaDiviziya11
People who don't live in Europe don't even realise how divided white Europeans are. The Irish and Eastern Europeans are even victims of colonisation.
And forget North America and Europe, just look at Africa and tell me they did not have inter-ethnic conflicts.
The post is very silly and North Americancentric.
Aceticon11
Literally Brexit was mostly about Brits not liking other Europeans being free to move to Britain, especially Poles.
I lived in London and unless they actually start talking and you hear their accent (or, even "worse" for the average Brit, their language) you can't actually tell a Pole from a Brit.
So. yeah, a fucking mid-sized country in the modern era has left a massive European trade union which gave them massive benefits (it has been estimated that Britain's GDP is growing 2% less every year because of leaving) because of their xenophobia against other Europeans, especially Eastern and Southern Europeans.
FluidBeef5
Plot twist: Chinese and Indians are not racial minorities.
yermaw3
There's too many minorities!
SkunkWorkz2
🎶At my water park 🎶
mycodesucks5
Raptured.
matlag1
With all these immigrants, Heaven for sure has become a bad place, which is why I refused to go there when offered!! When God comes to his sense and remigrate them, I'll reconsider!!
What, you doubt me? Such a lack of faith! You must be a bad Christian! You'll probably go to Hell!
HertzDentalBar1
And shit Albanians are the whitest anyone could be, being albino and shit
BillyTheKid21
Whitest people I've seen are from northern China. Europigs have nothing on the..
h4x0r36
Tattorack4
First Star Trek, now the Sneetches. If there's one thing this post has done is bring out some cultured references.
Shartyfartblast4
You're a star-belly sneech, you suck like a leech
You want everyone to act like you
Kiss ass while you bitch so you can get rich
But your boss gets richer off you.
DKs Holiday in Cambodia
Molag_Baller32
"White" is a relatively modern concept, and one that can be quite nebulous. I see some people call Bernie Sanders white, but I also see white nationalists who dont consider Jews white. Back when the British were committing a genocicde against the Irish and driving millions of Catholic refugees into a predominantly Protestant America they weren't considered white. Some Nazis considered Japanese people "honorary whites". People around the Mediterranean are a whole mixed bag- Italians, Greeks, and Spaniards have all been treated as white or non-white at times. Racists still debate whether Cleopatra and other Coptic Egyptians should count as "white" or not.
And of course Europeans have been making up divisions and killing each other over it for centuries. The very concepts of "Italy" and "France" and "Germany" and "Spain" and the like are pnky a few generations old.
It's not just "white" people though. The Japanese have a history of committing atrocities against their neighbors in Korea and China. Chinese history is largely the story of the Han people conquering the nations around them, and they are still committing genocide against groups like the Uyghurs and Tibetans today. Sudan had the genocide of the Darfuri in the early 2000's. The Rohingya genocide in Myanmar is still ongoing. We could go on and on.
The idea that only "white" people are racist is, itself, a racist idea.
nednobbins7
I'm mixed race and it's disturbing how true this is.
One of the weird things about being mixed race is that people feel comfortable telling me about their racial views.
There are a bunch of racial and ethnic prejudices that white people (particularly white Americans) don't even know exist.
One funny thing is that many forms of racism focus don't focus on skin color and instead focus on other arbitrary markers; ear lobes, noses, hair patterns.
MinnesotaGoddam1
i'm told eyelid fold based racism is pretty big in the korean community i live by. i don't understand that one in particular (and i'm happy not quite understanding), but bigots gonna bigot. there's always going to be something people are born with that they sort and prejudge by.
LogicOverFeelings5
Thank you for this comment, I was thinking the exact same thing.
Auli2
Coptic Egyptians
But Cleopatra was not a Coptic Egyptian.
justlemmyin0
I agree every big community of people can be a different level of racist to someone, and I guess if you think of it like a racist food pyramid, then 'whites' are at the top of that pyramid.
Auli4
I don't know there are other ethnicity that are pretty good at it. All I can say with certainty is that humans are very good at it. Never seen another animal care about anothers colour so much. Could you imagine if other animals separated by color it would be ridiculous.
bandanawearingbanana3
Yes, they are generally better at everything. /s
If you think white US Americans are somehow the only ones capable of racism talk to an Iranian about their feelings toward their neighbors. Or better about minorities in their own country. You will be enjoying an absolutely spectacular history and cultural lession on why Iranians are morally, genetically and culturally superior. Just ask something innocent like "What do you think about arabs?"
White racists dream of being even half as racist as the average Persian.
Tattorack29
This goes for every human population, by the way.
What, you think only Europe had racism and discrimination through history?
gAlienLifeform-13
What, you think only Europe had racism and discrimination through history?
"I don't like this conversation so me and my strawman are going to have a different one now."
ThirdConsul12
What are you talking about? That oh god no, someone dares to point that garbage racist meme is racist and garbage?
NeatNit28
You'd think it would be hair color which is easier to spot at a distance, with the familiar "brighter is better" rule placing the blond[e]s on top.
Talcosis10
Eye and hair.
Source: grew up in a very white country.
Obituarykidney2
What's the go if you have black hair but super pale eyes in that kind of system?
Talcosis2
Idk, I personally happen to look like a nazi propaganda poster, so I've literally never been discriminated against based on appearance anywhere I've ever lived. I haven't spent much time in China/Japan, though.
HikingVet1
Don’t worry they'll let you know.
kent_eh1
Eye and hair.
Just like they did in Nazi Germany.
Mokopa9
Too easy to change.
e8CArkcAuLE1
and gingers at the bottom
NeatNit2
I'm not so sure, ginger women are often spectacularly attractive. Ginger men, though? Worth less than dirt. Their only value is the chance to make ginger girls.
(disclaimer: I hated writing that)
e8CArkcAuLE2
oh, hello there fellow male ginger
urandom25
Never trust lighteyes!
Whirling_Ashandarei5
Blue eyes but they remain a pretty deep blue. I always wonder how the Alethi would categorize me lol
captainlezbian2
I assume people with medium lightness would be categorized contextually by them, sort of like how people with skin tones that don't read clearly black or white are irl. If someone with ambiguous eyes is wearing a hand sleeve and acting noble you'll assume she's a light eyes, but if she's wearing a glove and interacting with laborers you'll assume she's a dark eyes.
wool06984
Scrolled too far to find this
YTG1233
Or anyone with a name too palindromic
captainlezbian2
And remember to reject any shards offered to you lest you become one of them
ragebutt24
The semantical arguments about who counts as “white” already exist and often in very hate filled ways. Alt right “preserve the white race” people already try to bring back the pre world war 2 “Italians don’t count as white” nonsense. And of course tons of Italian Americans are certainly not known for progressive stances
So basically targets would shift?
ArmchairAce19449
Don't forget that WASPs often excluded entire professions to what they considered 'lesser' whites and catholics and Jews.
Ben Shapiro once said that Jews might not be good at the NBA like blacks when he doesn't realize (or does but is lying) that Jews dominated basketball in the 1920s and 1930s. Ironically then as now racism played a role in stereotyping them. Since Jews were seen as crafty and intelligently sneaky this was seen as manifesting in the sport, which often does need deception to get ahead.
Stern5
They could go further back and not count the Irish either
Guy Ingonito5
The concept of whiteness comes from the Spanish inquisition after the fall of Grenada. Being fair skinned was a way of proving without a doubt that you weren't a jew or a muslim.
My guess is we'd start dividing up amongst religious heritage again. Mormons vs. Evangelicals Vs. Protestants Vs. Catholics Vs. The Real Christians
ArmchairAce19446
Also the Spanish discriminated against Muslims who converted to Christian and doubted their faith as true. This was a generational thing since even their grandchildren were seen as suspect even if they and their parents were born and raised Catholic.
ragebutt3
Sure but I don’t think the alt right morons on twitter recognize that. They just see olive skin and a name that ends in a vowel and go ew gross different
Auli3
Huh name that ends in a vowel? Having a hard time thinking of guys names but girls there are a fair amount.
ragebutt2
Last name. Sometimes first name like Giuseppe or Luigi but more like Gotti, gambino, etc
Auli4
Well the Irish would not be white again.
Buddahriffic23
Having just come from the "taking things too literally" thread, contexts like these make it fun to deliberately take it too literally.
What would I do if I woke up and there were only white people left? I'd probably think "what the fuck is going on" as I see only white people floating around in empty space, and then I'd die from a mix of lack of oxygen, hypothermia, and lack of pressure.
Though maybe I'd first ask a clarifying question, like if that "black people" was just an example or would there still be like asians, and latinos? Do Irish and Italians count as white for this question? Basically set it up to look like I'm engaging with the question in good faith before taking the "clarification" to the extreme and giving the above answer.
And then poke at whatever new edge cases they leave when they try to clarify again, until I get bored and just disengage because it was a fucking dumb question.
FluidBeef2
You wouldn’t see anything though as there’d be no Sun to illuminate what you were seeing.
Polisheocket0
If the brown people were included and werent here, who would pick all the food. It’d be a real problem
BenVimes19
Something something Stormlight Archive.
blueduck6
Be quiet darkeyes. Your Lords are talking
Ganbat19
History already showed what happens. 90% chance people start going for the Irish.
HCSOThrowaway8
Don't forget Italians.
Also Catholics in general.
People are incredibly good at creating out-groups and attacking them.
Unpigged6
And the Irish will start going at Dubliners, and Dubliners will start going at North Dubliners?
TrackinDaKraken17
There's still gender, age, political affiliation, class/income level, and the big one, religion, for us to fight, separate, and subjugate over. We don't need eye or hair color, too.
Tattorack2
Except fascists would literally do that.
stardustpathsofglory16
Phoenixz13
I feel I have to point out here that most white people aren't racist, and don't give a shit about skin color.
I know this comment will be down voted yo hell because of course all white people are evil racist bastards, and people of color never do anything wrong, but still...
This post feels ever so slightly racist. Is racism not racism anymore if white people are the target? I was always taught to just be nice to everybody and that becoming your enemy doesn't defeat your enemy.
Earthwormjim917
The post is hilariously racist.
“You wake up and there’s only white people left. No black people”
Or she’d have to recognize that black Americans are just as racist against those groups too.
Auli2
And not only white people are racist is a big one.
Phoenixz1
People freak out when they learn that people with any skin color can be racist. Discriminating in skin color is just so stupid, unless its for the medical sector.
horus_son_of_isis0
It would be double racist if his response was "go enjoy a movie at the theater."
WizardOfFrobozz-3
I feel I have to point out here that most white people aren’t racist, and don’t give a shit about skin color.
I know this comment will be down voted yo hell because of course all white people are evil racist bastards, and people of color never do anything wrong, but still…
This post feels ever so slightly racist. Is racism not racism anymore if white people are the target? I was always taught to just be nice to everybody and that becoming your enemy doesn’t defeat your enemy.
If you're a white American whose first response to a post like this is the need to get defensive, I have bad news for you about the cute little "not racist" outfit you're trying to wear.
Being racist is kind of like being an asshole in that you don't get to decide whether you are or aren't by declaring it- you'll be informed.
Phoenixz1
1: you know that there are many countries in the world where white people are living, right? There are dozens of us, even!
2: if someone pointing out that racism works in all directions irks you, I got bad news for you too with your cute "yep I declare you're a racist!"post
Being an asshole is kind of being like a racist in that you don't get to decide whether yu are or aren't by declaring it- you'll be informed
samus1234512
So what about people who aren't white or black? And what about people of mixed ancestry? Do they only partially disappear? Or does the universe operate on the same visual vibes in determining who's "black" as society?
gigaqps7
You're only white if you're from the Aryan region of the fourth reich, otherwise you're just a sparkling honky
Goodlucksil4
Everyone gets the same skin color, in this case, caucasian white
samus123457
Fish belly white!
FluidBeef1
I have no idea what colour the Caucasus Mountains are.
Auli1
Moca everyone turns moca.
Sordid_Seraphim1
Giving whitewashing a whole new meaning.
Wirlocke12
All the racism in the world will be concentrated onto the left-handed, gingers, and the Welsh.
The kind of future Lovecraft would want.
MinnesotaGoddam5
The kind of future Lovecraft would want.
with wales still existing? i think not
RememberTheApollo_12
Monetary worth and land ownership.
White people have been shitting on each other over economic status and land for thousands of years. They’d go right back to it. Heck, some republicans have already opined that only landowners should vote.
Auli2
God we can't let the Irish vote.
MinnesotaGoddam1
don't scare me with ideas like the irish
Feathercrown1
Great strategy once all land becomes the property of GeoCo, the land reselling company.
offspec10
Storming brighteyes and their storming sense of superiority
SatansMaggotyCumFart9
can6
You spend a lot of time on reddit huh?
SatansMaggotyCumFart3
Imagine defending a reddit repost bot :).
can1
I did no such thing
They don't seem like a bot. Rather someone who still browses reddit and decides to share some things here (without direct linking). I see no problem in sharing a few things a day.
SatansMaggotyCumFart1
They’re a bot.
can1
Maybe they are, I haven't done a deep investigation, but to what end? What do they have to gain? Moreover, the content gets appreciated by users here who are ostensibly not bots.
I enjoyed some posts and would not know they were copied from reddit without you. It's not like they even originated from there. Plus as far as I know there's no direct linking. What's the harm?
You and both have invested a lot of time in this space over the last few years: fedi/threadiverse is still so small yet gaining new users all the time. Don't you think having more content uploaded here that people genuinely engage with is an overall good thing?
I get it, I gave up looking over there when they killed my apps. I'm happier (and less addicted) here than I was before. But still, I know there are probably some big things I miss out on by getting my fix from more obscure sides of the net. Someone willing to wade through and find gems in the mess is someone that's valuable to have here.
Think of !greentext@sh.itjust.works
It's a curation.
SatansMaggotyCumFart1
You might enjoy mindless upvoting content that was mindlessly reposted but not everyone does.
can1
That's a fair point.
I just think it's a lot of effort. If it's worth it to you then ignore me.
I just can't personally imagine spending the required time on reddit.
Smaile9
Dead ass what would happen, gingers would become the new "blacks"
x0x71
They are already called potato n-I'm not going to finish that.
DJKJuicy9
Sordid_Seraphim9
Depends on which white you mean because if you're using the ultra elite definition I'm not white because I've got Scottish and Italian ancestry.
The concept of being "white" was historically used to discriminate against people who weren't the right kind of anglo saxon.
Tattorack2
Yeah, "Black as Irish" was an actual phrase.
Sordid_Seraphim1
Found out about this recently and then suddenly kchink "Oh that's why they say there's no such thing as racism towards white people."
It's a symbol of status and power since most pale skinned people aren't fuckin' white.
Aceticon9
Surelly anti-gingerism would become the norm.
(Though maybe that's just an UK thing)
Pollo_Jack6
US too. "I'll beat you like a red headed step-child." They were unloved because they were products of rape of Irish immigrants that had to serve as servants/slaves for five to ten years to pay for their trip to America.
nonfuinoncuro1
you should probably watch south park
Thebeardedsinglemalt3
Gingervitis is a real issue!
Tollana12345679
they already divide by, income, and certain parts of the city/county they live in.
forkDestroyer7
Acting like that's specific to any group of people it's laughable.
It's a class war. Don't let them convince you it's a race war.
BillyTheKid22
Shh! If they figure that out, it's all over.
Race was. Gender war. Looks war. Rural/urban war. Language war.
Push it and they'll never successfully rebel again.
prole1
Only if you ignore decades of red lining
Noel_Skum9
Start leaving my house unlocked again?
I mean, seriously, ragebaiting in such a stoopid way like this deserves all the ~~flaming~~ trolling that comes your way.
btw I’m not from the US so my “joke” wouldn’t work where I live anyway.
wezzzy1
What are you on ab mate
Noel_Skum6
Just pointing out the futility, in my opinion, of engaging directly with somebody who would non-ironically post this in real life.
wezzzy1
What is the issue with posting this then? Why would it be futile to respond to someone who would post this "non-ironicly" what is ur point exactly? As i see it ita a joke post ment to point out how racist white folks can be i dont think the aecond part is to be taken as fact
Noel_Skum1
To me, anybody who can genuinely think in binary terms of “white” people and “black” people probably has a very limited exposure to the entire colour palette of humanity and, again, this is conjecture, probably has a damaging US-centric view of what is a global issue.
If a five year old asked me the same question I’d probably engage with them, but as an adult, gtfooh.
prole0
What does being in the US have to do with anything? Racism exists worldwide.
Who is upvoting this shit for real? I see no problem with the original post, and I find it very strange that someone would get this upset about it unless they felt personally called out.
Sounds like a self report, mate.
Noel_Skum2
Um, because perhaps I’m currently living somewhere with only a tiny handful of black people - none of whom are burglars? So locking or not locking my door would make zero difference in the event of all black people disappearing.
On the occasions when I have lived almost exclusively surrounded by black people crime was the last of my concerns - but that wasn’t in a US city.
I’m not upset by the post - just a bit exasperated that ragebait shit like this happens online.
Firstly - how exactly are we defining black? One parent? Both parents? All four grand parents? All eight grandparents? Is blue-black different to brown-black? I mean, really, who is honestly capable of adjudicating such an arbitrary line?
Secondly - the saddest bit is that in China and India, most of the rest of Asia, vast swathes of South América and in the Antarctic… this ridiculous made-up bullshit scenario would have little immediate impact; apart from a mention on the news.
Thinking, even as a thought experiment, the stupidity of this question beggars belief, in my opinion. Maybe it’s a self-tell that you jump on your white stallion to defend this worthless stirring of tensions in possible hypothetical scenarios.
More power to you, brother. Fight that fight… from behind your screen.
LazyOldPervert8
To be fair people without brown eyes are heretics and heathens
FatVegan8
Pretty rich, coming from a mudeye
Thebeardedsinglemalt4
Blue eyes came from a mutation! Death to the muties!!!!
bilouba8
Is it like everyone turned white or every non white person has disappeared?
The first one is the most "fun" to imagine, as in the other case, we lost a lot of people and that's very sad...
You can imagine people of color experiencing strong body disphoria at first.
Maybe grouping by ex color vs always white, and people pretending to be from one group or the other since their will be no way to discern.
Maybe language, accents and dialect can be used to try to flag people (for those who cares of course).
Maybe hair color would be another way to discriminate people, before eyes color. Height? Tattoo? We would always find ways unfortunately...
Other impact might be mass migration as white skin is not adapted to sunny weather. Lots of sunburn...
Cults created around this event (the Whitening), some see it as good, other as a tragedy. Whatever happened was unexplainable and baffles scientist around the world.
Maybe a belief that another wave of color change will happen in the future.
Support group for people who lost their color.
The immense celebrity of the first new baby of color that will be born, maybe making color a very precious attributes.
You could write so many scenario in this world, but it would be pretty heavy handed as literature 😅
Feathercrown4
Maybe grouping by ex color vs always white, and people pretending to be from one group or the other since their will be no way to discern.
"This is a picture of me at 5 years old, I was clearly always white"
"Nuh uh that's AI"
You could write so many scenario in this world, but it would be pretty heavy handed as literature 😅
Writers are too afraid of being heavy-handed, the world sometimes needs things to be really spelled out
bilouba2
Good one with pictures and AI! I haven't thought of that at all.
You might be right, but it would be hard to publish a book with this concept and not create at least a small controversy. But that may be the point of Art in a way? Shake things up and create dialog? But it would almost seems tame compared to what is happening in the real world IDK 😐
Feathercrown2
If the world's going to fall apart we can at least have fun and publish controversial books
Auli4
They make a mistake they said no black people and only white people left. What about all the other colours and "races" that exist.
bilouba1
Oh yeah you're right, it feels extremely racist now to only target black people, not that it wasn't about race before 😅
Hadriscus7
white people only
Well... didn't expect to read this within my lifetime outside of historical documents
Not responding to the initial prompt, as it is rather idiotic and nonproductive
Freeposity7
It was deleted by reddit. It's probably a good idea to upload i.redd.it images somewhere else before posting here.
ooli32
It was still on reddit for me. I uploaded it just in case: People talk about country ban for some reddit post
MehBlah7
It will be hair color first. I have red hair so I'm next on the petty hate machine.
falynns7
Literally already happened a dozen times. Some power hungry piece of shit is already trying to convince his (it's always a man) neighbors them down-the-block Whites are going to kill them unless they donate to the "Nah I'm a good one" fund. You can't leave too many White people alone. Just look at the Hamptons. Or the US South. Or US history in any window of time.
farmgineer6
I think hair color would be the more obvious first choice, though it is changeable. Someone mentioned skin color again and I agree that would likely happen. Were I to throw an odd one out: handedness becomes the next source of discrimination.
As for what I would do, immediately mourn the loss of my wife and probably die in short order since white people make up a tiny fraction of Japan's population and certain sensitive jobs aren't open to those who aren't Japanese citizens anyway meaning all kinds of stuff breaks down almost immediately.
GalacticGrapefruit6
Grieve.
Only right answer.
Feathercrown2
If they disappear, yeah. Otherwise if they just turn white...
Everyone watching their culture be literally whitewashed away by an unexplainable cosmic event
ILikeBoobies6
Historically white was based on religion.
Ricky Rigatoni6
Probably piss because first thing in the morning I normally don't check the news so I wouldn't know it happened.
explodicle2
You go to flush and the water has already stopped working.
Thebeardedsinglemalt6
Define white though. Does it include traditionally "olive skinned" nationalities?
Pat_Riot6
Hair color
AppleTea2
First half of the 20th century, they talked about hair colour like it was three extra genders.
Pat_Riot3
My hair color certainly got me some nicknames when I was younger, bordering on slurs.
Tollana12345671
gingers at the lowest rung, while blue yes, blonde at the top, other superficial features, 6' tall, . they would also exclude "invalids"
nullspace5
We already divide by Irish, Jew, etc.
WIZARD POPE💫5
Not many black people around where I live so I probably would not even notice
Tudsamfa3
All of Africa would be without civilization, just isolated pockets of Asians and white people on trips to find themselves, now without local guides. They're all going to die unless the remaining governments organize rescue missions. You would hear about this.
Without civilization, it becomes difficult to sustain farms and mines, so even if governments fly in farmers, farm hands and miners to claim the fields and mines, the plants will wither and the mines will barely run. While I imagine most crops are produced for the local market that also died, African products for the global economy, chocolate, palm oil, gold and uranium, will see their prices shoot through the roof in anticipation of the inevitable crop failure and ore shortages. You would hear about this.
Inevitably, unclaimed land with huge amounts of profitable farmland and mines will receive claims, from China, who invested a lot into local infrastructure, former colonial powers reinstating their borders, or whatever remains of Arabian states whose populations didn't qualify, and also whoever could fly in some pioneers and reestablish trade routes. That will result in border frictions, skirmishes and maybe full on war. It's possible you would miss the war, I personally always forget the US-Iran war is still happening, so I'll give you that. US would probably stay out of that one, trying to restart its own agricultural industry.
WIZARD POPE💫2
I never said I would not find out it happened. Probably hear about it in a couple days because even without all the consequences auch a high amount of people vanishing would be strange and reported on.
I would in my daily goings on probably not notice it because I cannot recall the last time I saw a black person more than just like at a glance. There really is just so few of them here
tigeruppercut5
The first child to arrive in Elliott's classroom on the day following Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination asked, in reference to the incident, "Why'd they shoot that King?" After the rest of the class arrived, Elliott asked them how they thought it would feel to be a black boy or girl. She suggested to the class it would be hard for them to understand discrimination without experiencing it themselves and then asked the children if they would like to find out. The children agreed. She decided to base the exercise on eye color rather than skin color to show the children what racial segregation would be like.
Initially, there was resistance among the students in the minority group to the idea that blue-eyed children were better than brown-eyed children. To counter this, Elliott led the children to believe the false premise that melanin was linked to their higher intelligence and learning ability. Shortly thereafter, the initial resistance fell away. Those who were deemed "superior" became arrogant, bossy, and otherwise unpleasant to their "inferior" classmates. Their grades on simple tests improved, and they completed mathematical and reading tasks that had seemed outside their ability before. The "inferior" classmates also transformed – into timid and subservient children who scored more poorly on tests, and even during recess isolated themselves, including those who had previously been dominant in the class. These children's academic performance suffered, even with tasks that had been simple before.
The next Monday, Elliott reversed the exercise, making the brown-eyed children superior. While the brown-eyed children did taunt the blue-eyed children in ways similar to what had occurred the previous day, Elliott reports it was much less intense.
Morally very dubious test, but otherwise illustrates the problem quite clearly.
HCSOThrowaway5
5 hour podcast explaining why brown-eyed people aren't technically "white" about to hit Truth Social...
ZILtoid19915
They already did, if that didn't exist, they'd divide themselves by language, which is a thing in Europe, except it got less popular due to the importing of American White Nationalism.
harambe695
STORMIN LIGHTEYES
SirSamuel5
Go find my black friends that are white now and see if their white is acceptable, or Italian
Taleya5
Hang out with my asian friends
alekwithak5
It'd be like Yesterday except you'd have license to invent basically all forms of popular music.
horus_son_of_isis4
The new hotness would be religion ... again. The Abrahamic deathcults cannot tolerate any competing point of view, regardless of skin color.
captainlezbian4
Probably have a panic attack about most of humanity being gone including multiple friends and acquaintances.
Dippy4
This is a horror movie I do not wish to imagine
rizzothesmall4
I can think of a new rearrangement of a racist word that would become the defacto usage.
GINGERS!
BillyTheKid21
Irish and Italians
lemmygarden4
There's more than white and black.
gAlienLifeform1
It's all a bunch of cultural communities with no basis in biological science, who exactly counts as white black brown etc. changes pretty regularly
WorldsDumbestMan4
Idk if I count as white, but grieve heavily, because many of my friends aren't white.
Auli4
Are they black? Seems like Indian, any Asians are all safe they just say no black people, so do they consider everyone else white.
HerbGrower4
The far right already dislike white people from eastern Europe
pachrist4
An infinite number of podcasts would appear commenting on who was white enough to survive the race rapture.
AllNewTypeFace3
What do you do? Well, not dance, for one.
TachyonTele_Esq1
No more basketball either :/
No one could jump anymore
Dejected Warp Core3
Bigots are gonna bigot. For these regressive knuckle-draggers, there's no future with zero divisions between groups human beings. Even if the entire human race were all genetic clones of each other, they'd find a way.
Leonardo_da_Vinci2
One group would be for bigots.
Tollana12345673
they will divide by the whites that have darker skin, then goes to religion , like jewish people.
Feathercrown3
Wonder why tf all my coworkers vanished from existence (I work in IT, they're literally all Indian contractors). I live in NH so it would probably take me a while to notice otherwise lmfao
Whirling_Ashandarei3
Frantically search for my wife? She's neither white nor black so doesn't technically fit this yet I'd be forced to assume a malevolent enemy is experimenting on mankind.
luciferofastora3
Well, a huge part of our economy would collapse.
A huge chunk of the export of goods and labour from "non-white" countries would obviously stop. Just imagine how many companies would be robbed of their outsourced IT. Clothing made in southern Asia. Metals from Africa. Oil. Cheap off-season produce. The list is long.
On the other hand, their absent imports would ruin, for instance, farmers whose income depends on the export of grain. Many of the net importers of food are "non-white" countries, so that would be one market breaking down.
Even if we disregard the personal loss, the economic implosion would rapidly have us turning on each other in a panicked attempt to secure a future in the unpredictable upheaval.
PapaTorque3
You didn't even have to remove white people for black people to start subdividing into shades of black. Racism is stupid. Being a certain race doesn't make it any more or less stupid for you to do it.
BeardededSquidward3
Degrees of whiteness, someone who is translucent like me probably ends up in the camps.
gen/Eric Computers3
So, like that episode of Fairly Odd Parents where Timmy wishes everyone was a gray blob, but people still picked on him because they were "grayer."
TankovayaDiviziya3
It's not just white people, look at post-colonial states. Africa and Latin America has had in-fighting after independence, but thankfully Latin America haven't been at war with each other since early 20th century. Central Asia and Caucasus after the fall of the Soviet Union are not getting along. And I don't need to mention the Middle East. India and Pakistan are always dick measuring. I think East Asia is the only region where there haven't had a prolong intra-fighting, but only because the fragmented geography makes cross-country invasions pretty much impossible.
BigBoyShuanzee3
Non-American here......
So it's only black people or are my best drinking buddies (Bosnian and Turkish)
Even more important question does my Chinese wife, my half Chinese daughter and my wonderful mother-in-law still exist...?
I get this question is from an American who doesn't actually understand the world.. But it makes me very irate.
If this was Reddit I'd go on a long drunken rant...(I actually started trying to explain)
Holy shit America, Elon Musk is the reason you are suffering right now.
adjectivenoun2
This is made only in jest:
Well I'll have a Coke, then.
godsammitdam2
We all saw that Fairly Oddparents episode, right?
JordanZ2
JustPlainDave2
Only white people? Probably hang myself or something.
Duamerthrax2
The left handed people will be beat again. They know what they did.
Also, are we counting the Irish as black again?
humanspiral2
no no no, that's silly. We genocide the gingers!!!!
reksas2
and after the eyes comes something else and after that something else. until the last person on planet kills the second last.
Zozano1
TachyonTele_Esq1
We keep the women
itsgroundhogdayagain1
daniskarma1
mRbLUE-1
Leave my front door unlocked for once?
x0x7-2
Racist here. Scandinavian decent. TBH, I could do without people with Italian, German, Irish, French, or English decent.
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Fedigest
It will be skin colour again, but limited to a tighter spectrum.
People really forget that racism against Italians and Irish was a thing.
We don't want the Irish
Poor Irish folk. I love the Irish. And while I've plenty of opportunity to watch blazing saddles it just doesn't appeal to me. Is it wrong of me to defend the Irish in light of my ignorance of this humorous show?
It would be wrong not to defend the Irish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_rule_in_Ireland?wprov=sfla1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Irish
It still is.
It'll just be the intra-European racism that already exists, which doesn't particularly follow skin color.
Germanic, Celtic, Slavic, Mediterranean, etc.. Each with their own subdivisions ready to go if the others were wiped out.
As a man from that little village here, fuck those cunts from the village over there! Their fields are full of hamsters and their wheat smells of elderberries.
mediterreans would be darker skin, so they are the first targets. then it goes to anti-semitism in the end.
Historically, no. In Germanic regions it's first Jews, then Slavs, then Celts, then Mediterraneans. Mediterraneans get credit for the Reniassance, Greco-Roman civilization and Christianity.
Mediterranean is too broad. Northern Italian and Greek were ok for Nazis.
Certainly not Libyans, Egyptians, Palestinians etc.
I was going to say, some pasty motherfuckers who can't be exposed to the sun for 15 minutes without going to the hospital are going to say they're the superior people.
They tried, but everyone supported Macklemore.
Nah, as such a pasty motherfucker, other white people expect you to tan. I grew up being teased for my paleness and my neighbor offered to let me use her tanning bed. (I declined because I burn but don't tan).
My public school system was 100% white until my senior year of high school when a black family sent their kids to kindergarten.
In no particular order:
What a stupid fucking question.
I'd probably start by trying to figure out what the fuck happened to everyone.
Depending on your definition of 'white', probably start scavenging for the upcoming crisis. The loss of like 90% of the world's population will create a supply chain crisis and general systems collapse. Who knows what skills and technologies are lost.
I hope to the gods old and new that the winkyface means you are actually joking, not "hahah only serious" joking.
Their comment history suggests they are being serious.
Well, that one's getting a downvote, a user note, and a block.
;)
So glad I learnt how to add a note on Voyager. This is very helpful
Wait. How does this work? I can’t find these and I really miss tags I had in Apollo.
Make sure you enable them in settings ->user tags, "enable user tags". Then, go to a user page, unroll the top right menu and "edit tag"
Yeah.... Racist and a transphobe, who could have guessed?
You have a middle schooler's understanding of the world around you, and that is being unkind to most middle schoolers.
phobia can also mean aversion, as in hydrophobic.....or an aversion to water.
Did your parents drop you on your head when you were younger? Or did you have to work to become so ignorant?
You're afraid of the funny feeling you get in your parts when you see a hot trans gal
Or just another pathetic, basement dwelling edgelord, spending his time looking to get a reaction by being an absolute moron. I have a hard time believing people are that stupid
For future reference if the username ends in @sh.itjust.works you can just assume the worst.
Yes - 100% this. I can confirm I’m a total cunt.
You give Darkwing Duck a bad name asshole.
They're both valid statements
You are the reason nobody likes you.
Skills and technology won't matter when you starve because you don't have the hispanics doing all the agricultural work.
Excuse me, but what country provides the most printed silicon for chip manufacturing, and what ethnicity are they?
Now consider how much of our daily technology we take for granted makes use of that printed silicon.
That's just one example.
Rare Earth minerals and the skills and equipment to process them are not in the Western world. It is, however, in a grand multitude of countries elsewhere in the world, all of which wouldn't be considered "white". And... That covers everything from guided missiles to toys.
The most efficient production lines in the world, with the most advanced manufacturing capabilities, are in China. China sells the equipment and the skill to manage the equipment to its neighbours, and we get everything from clothes to tooth brushes from that.
The world has ONE, only ONE, major source of Gum Arabic, which is a country in Africa you've probably never even heard of. This includes the skills and expertise to manufacture it, and it's used in food and paint.
Do I even need to mention where the world gets the majority of its oil from, and where all the skilled workers and equipment is to process said oil? Or how important oil is to the world, even completely discounting its use as a fuel?
You exact quote was:
Skills and technology can always be reproduced, more easily if adequate documentation exists. However, that is not your premise. Your premise is no skills or technology would be lost, which is just wrong. All of it will be lost, and whoever will be left will need to go through the long process of learning and reproducing said skills and technology, which can take multiple generations.
This is your daily reminder that Irish and Italians weren't considered white at the beginning of the 20th century in America.
Hell, some people in Europe don't consider albanians to be white.
Also I'd be very concerned as to where all the racial minorities went. Like genuinely concerned.
One of my favorite facts was that West Side Story was initially about the rivalry between polish and Italian immigrants in New York and Leonard Bernstein had to rework it because he received feedback that it would be too niche and people who didn't live in New York in a very specific window of time wouldn't get it.
People who don't live in Europe don't even realise how divided white Europeans are. The Irish and Eastern Europeans are even victims of colonisation.
And forget North America and Europe, just look at Africa and tell me they did not have inter-ethnic conflicts.
The post is very silly and North Americancentric.
Literally Brexit was mostly about Brits not liking other Europeans being free to move to Britain, especially Poles.
I lived in London and unless they actually start talking and you hear their accent (or, even "worse" for the average Brit, their language) you can't actually tell a Pole from a Brit.
So. yeah, a fucking mid-sized country in the modern era has left a massive European trade union which gave them massive benefits (it has been estimated that Britain's GDP is growing 2% less every year because of leaving) because of their xenophobia against other Europeans, especially Eastern and Southern Europeans.
Plot twist: Chinese and Indians are not racial minorities.
There's too many minorities!
🎶At my water park 🎶
Raptured.
With all these immigrants, Heaven for sure has become a bad place, which is why I refused to go there when offered!! When God comes to his sense and remigrate them, I'll reconsider!!
What, you doubt me? Such a lack of faith! You must be a bad Christian! You'll probably go to Hell!
And shit Albanians are the whitest anyone could be, being albino and shit
Whitest people I've seen are from northern China. Europigs have nothing on the..
First Star Trek, now the Sneetches. If there's one thing this post has done is bring out some cultured references.
You're a star-belly sneech, you suck like a leech
You want everyone to act like you
Kiss ass while you bitch so you can get rich
But your boss gets richer off you.
DKs Holiday in Cambodia
"White" is a relatively modern concept, and one that can be quite nebulous. I see some people call Bernie Sanders white, but I also see white nationalists who dont consider Jews white. Back when the British were committing a genocicde against the Irish and driving millions of Catholic refugees into a predominantly Protestant America they weren't considered white. Some Nazis considered Japanese people "honorary whites". People around the Mediterranean are a whole mixed bag- Italians, Greeks, and Spaniards have all been treated as white or non-white at times. Racists still debate whether Cleopatra and other Coptic Egyptians should count as "white" or not.
And of course Europeans have been making up divisions and killing each other over it for centuries. The very concepts of "Italy" and "France" and "Germany" and "Spain" and the like are pnky a few generations old.
It's not just "white" people though. The Japanese have a history of committing atrocities against their neighbors in Korea and China. Chinese history is largely the story of the Han people conquering the nations around them, and they are still committing genocide against groups like the Uyghurs and Tibetans today. Sudan had the genocide of the Darfuri in the early 2000's. The Rohingya genocide in Myanmar is still ongoing. We could go on and on.
The idea that only "white" people are racist is, itself, a racist idea.
I'm mixed race and it's disturbing how true this is. One of the weird things about being mixed race is that people feel comfortable telling me about their racial views.
There are a bunch of racial and ethnic prejudices that white people (particularly white Americans) don't even know exist.
One funny thing is that many forms of racism focus don't focus on skin color and instead focus on other arbitrary markers; ear lobes, noses, hair patterns.
i'm told eyelid fold based racism is pretty big in the korean community i live by. i don't understand that one in particular (and i'm happy not quite understanding), but bigots gonna bigot. there's always going to be something people are born with that they sort and prejudge by.
Thank you for this comment, I was thinking the exact same thing.
But Cleopatra was not a Coptic Egyptian.
I agree every big community of people can be a different level of racist to someone, and I guess if you think of it like a racist food pyramid, then 'whites' are at the top of that pyramid.
I don't know there are other ethnicity that are pretty good at it. All I can say with certainty is that humans are very good at it. Never seen another animal care about anothers colour so much. Could you imagine if other animals separated by color it would be ridiculous.
Yes, they are generally better at everything. /s
If you think white US Americans are somehow the only ones capable of racism talk to an Iranian about their feelings toward their neighbors. Or better about minorities in their own country. You will be enjoying an absolutely spectacular history and cultural lession on why Iranians are morally, genetically and culturally superior. Just ask something innocent like "What do you think about arabs?"
White racists dream of being even half as racist as the average Persian.
This goes for every human population, by the way.
What, you think only Europe had racism and discrimination through history?
"I don't like this conversation so me and my strawman are going to have a different one now."
What are you talking about? That oh god no, someone dares to point that garbage racist meme is racist and garbage?
You'd think it would be hair color which is easier to spot at a distance, with the familiar "brighter is better" rule placing the blond[e]s on top.
Eye and hair.
Source: grew up in a very white country.
What's the go if you have black hair but super pale eyes in that kind of system?
Idk, I personally happen to look like a nazi propaganda poster, so I've literally never been discriminated against based on appearance anywhere I've ever lived. I haven't spent much time in China/Japan, though.
Don’t worry they'll let you know.
Just like they did in Nazi Germany.
Too easy to change.
and gingers at the bottom
I'm not so sure, ginger women are often spectacularly attractive. Ginger men, though? Worth less than dirt. Their only value is the chance to make ginger girls.
(disclaimer: I hated writing that)
oh, hello there fellow male ginger
Never trust lighteyes!
Blue eyes but they remain a pretty deep blue. I always wonder how the Alethi would categorize me lol
I assume people with medium lightness would be categorized contextually by them, sort of like how people with skin tones that don't read clearly black or white are irl. If someone with ambiguous eyes is wearing a hand sleeve and acting noble you'll assume she's a light eyes, but if she's wearing a glove and interacting with laborers you'll assume she's a dark eyes.
Scrolled too far to find this
Or anyone with a name too palindromic
And remember to reject any shards offered to you lest you become one of them
The semantical arguments about who counts as “white” already exist and often in very hate filled ways. Alt right “preserve the white race” people already try to bring back the pre world war 2 “Italians don’t count as white” nonsense. And of course tons of Italian Americans are certainly not known for progressive stances
So basically targets would shift?
Don't forget that WASPs often excluded entire professions to what they considered 'lesser' whites and catholics and Jews.
Ben Shapiro once said that Jews might not be good at the NBA like blacks when he doesn't realize (or does but is lying) that Jews dominated basketball in the 1920s and 1930s. Ironically then as now racism played a role in stereotyping them. Since Jews were seen as crafty and intelligently sneaky this was seen as manifesting in the sport, which often does need deception to get ahead.
They could go further back and not count the Irish either
The concept of whiteness comes from the Spanish inquisition after the fall of Grenada. Being fair skinned was a way of proving without a doubt that you weren't a jew or a muslim.
My guess is we'd start dividing up amongst religious heritage again. Mormons vs. Evangelicals Vs. Protestants Vs. Catholics Vs. The Real Christians
Also the Spanish discriminated against Muslims who converted to Christian and doubted their faith as true. This was a generational thing since even their grandchildren were seen as suspect even if they and their parents were born and raised Catholic.
Sure but I don’t think the alt right morons on twitter recognize that. They just see olive skin and a name that ends in a vowel and go ew gross different
Huh name that ends in a vowel? Having a hard time thinking of guys names but girls there are a fair amount.
Last name. Sometimes first name like Giuseppe or Luigi but more like Gotti, gambino, etc
Well the Irish would not be white again.
Having just come from the "taking things too literally" thread, contexts like these make it fun to deliberately take it too literally.
What would I do if I woke up and there were only white people left? I'd probably think "what the fuck is going on" as I see only white people floating around in empty space, and then I'd die from a mix of lack of oxygen, hypothermia, and lack of pressure.
Though maybe I'd first ask a clarifying question, like if that "black people" was just an example or would there still be like asians, and latinos? Do Irish and Italians count as white for this question? Basically set it up to look like I'm engaging with the question in good faith before taking the "clarification" to the extreme and giving the above answer.
And then poke at whatever new edge cases they leave when they try to clarify again, until I get bored and just disengage because it was a fucking dumb question.
You wouldn’t see anything though as there’d be no Sun to illuminate what you were seeing.
If the brown people were included and werent here, who would pick all the food. It’d be a real problem
Something something Stormlight Archive.
Be quiet darkeyes. Your Lords are talking
History already showed what happens. 90% chance people start going for the Irish.
Don't forget Italians.
Also Catholics in general.
People are incredibly good at creating out-groups and attacking them.
And the Irish will start going at Dubliners, and Dubliners will start going at North Dubliners?
There's still gender, age, political affiliation, class/income level, and the big one, religion, for us to fight, separate, and subjugate over. We don't need eye or hair color, too.
Except fascists would literally do that.
I feel I have to point out here that most white people aren't racist, and don't give a shit about skin color.
I know this comment will be down voted yo hell because of course all white people are evil racist bastards, and people of color never do anything wrong, but still...
This post feels ever so slightly racist. Is racism not racism anymore if white people are the target? I was always taught to just be nice to everybody and that becoming your enemy doesn't defeat your enemy.
The post is hilariously racist.
“You wake up and there’s only white people left. No black people”
Like bitch. What, Asians don’t exist anymore? Native Americans? Pacific Islanders?
Or she’d have to recognize that black Americans are just as racist against those groups too.
And not only white people are racist is a big one.
People freak out when they learn that people with any skin color can be racist. Discriminating in skin color is just so stupid, unless its for the medical sector.
It would be double racist if his response was "go enjoy a movie at the theater."
If you're a white American whose first response to a post like this is the need to get defensive, I have bad news for you about the cute little "not racist" outfit you're trying to wear.
Being racist is kind of like being an asshole in that you don't get to decide whether you are or aren't by declaring it- you'll be informed.
1: you know that there are many countries in the world where white people are living, right? There are dozens of us, even!
2: if someone pointing out that racism works in all directions irks you, I got bad news for you too with your cute "yep I declare you're a racist!"post
Being an asshole is kind of being like a racist in that you don't get to decide whether yu are or aren't by declaring it- you'll be informed
So what about people who aren't white or black? And what about people of mixed ancestry? Do they only partially disappear? Or does the universe operate on the same visual vibes in determining who's "black" as society?
You're only white if you're from the Aryan region of the fourth reich, otherwise you're just a sparkling honky
Everyone gets the same skin color, in this case, caucasian white
Fish belly white!
I have no idea what colour the Caucasus Mountains are.
Moca everyone turns moca.
Giving whitewashing a whole new meaning.
All the racism in the world will be concentrated onto the left-handed, gingers, and the Welsh.
The kind of future Lovecraft would want.
with wales still existing? i think not
Monetary worth and land ownership.
White people have been shitting on each other over economic status and land for thousands of years. They’d go right back to it. Heck, some republicans have already opined that only landowners should vote.
God we can't let the Irish vote.
don't scare me with ideas like the irish
Great strategy once all land becomes the property of GeoCo, the land reselling company.
Storming brighteyes and their storming sense of superiority
You spend a lot of time on reddit huh?
Imagine defending a reddit repost bot :).
I did no such thing
They don't seem like a bot. Rather someone who still browses reddit and decides to share some things here (without direct linking). I see no problem in sharing a few things a day.
They’re a bot.
Maybe they are, I haven't done a deep investigation, but to what end? What do they have to gain? Moreover, the content gets appreciated by users here who are ostensibly not bots.
I enjoyed some posts and would not know they were copied from reddit without you. It's not like they even originated from there. Plus as far as I know there's no direct linking. What's the harm?
You and both have invested a lot of time in this space over the last few years: fedi/threadiverse is still so small yet gaining new users all the time. Don't you think having more content uploaded here that people genuinely engage with is an overall good thing?
I get it, I gave up looking over there when they killed my apps. I'm happier (and less addicted) here than I was before. But still, I know there are probably some big things I miss out on by getting my fix from more obscure sides of the net. Someone willing to wade through and find gems in the mess is someone that's valuable to have here.
Think of !greentext@sh.itjust.works
It's a curation.
You might enjoy mindless upvoting content that was mindlessly reposted but not everyone does.
That's a fair point.
I just think it's a lot of effort. If it's worth it to you then ignore me.
I just can't personally imagine spending the required time on reddit.
Dead ass what would happen, gingers would become the new "blacks"
They are already called potato n-I'm not going to finish that.
Depends on which white you mean because if you're using the ultra elite definition I'm not white because I've got Scottish and Italian ancestry.
The concept of being "white" was historically used to discriminate against people who weren't the right kind of anglo saxon.
Yeah, "Black as Irish" was an actual phrase.
Found out about this recently and then suddenly kchink "Oh that's why they say there's no such thing as racism towards white people."
It's a symbol of status and power since most pale skinned people aren't fuckin' white.
Surelly anti-gingerism would become the norm.
(Though maybe that's just an UK thing)
US too. "I'll beat you like a red headed step-child." They were unloved because they were products of rape of Irish immigrants that had to serve as servants/slaves for five to ten years to pay for their trip to America.
you should probably watch south park
Gingervitis is a real issue!
they already divide by, income, and certain parts of the city/county they live in.
Acting like that's specific to any group of people it's laughable.
It's a class war. Don't let them convince you it's a race war.
Shh! If they figure that out, it's all over.
Race was. Gender war. Looks war. Rural/urban war. Language war.
Push it and they'll never successfully rebel again.
Only if you ignore decades of red lining
Start leaving my house unlocked again?
I mean, seriously, ragebaiting in such a stoopid way like this deserves all the ~~flaming~~ trolling that comes your way.
btw I’m not from the US so my “joke” wouldn’t work where I live anyway.
What are you on ab mate
Just pointing out the futility, in my opinion, of engaging directly with somebody who would non-ironically post this in real life.
What is the issue with posting this then? Why would it be futile to respond to someone who would post this "non-ironicly" what is ur point exactly? As i see it ita a joke post ment to point out how racist white folks can be i dont think the aecond part is to be taken as fact
To me, anybody who can genuinely think in binary terms of “white” people and “black” people probably has a very limited exposure to the entire colour palette of humanity and, again, this is conjecture, probably has a damaging US-centric view of what is a global issue.
If a five year old asked me the same question I’d probably engage with them, but as an adult, gtfooh.
What does being in the US have to do with anything? Racism exists worldwide.
Who is upvoting this shit for real? I see no problem with the original post, and I find it very strange that someone would get this upset about it unless they felt personally called out.
Sounds like a self report, mate.
Um, because perhaps I’m currently living somewhere with only a tiny handful of black people - none of whom are burglars? So locking or not locking my door would make zero difference in the event of all black people disappearing.
On the occasions when I have lived almost exclusively surrounded by black people crime was the last of my concerns - but that wasn’t in a US city.
I’m not upset by the post - just a bit exasperated that ragebait shit like this happens online.
Firstly - how exactly are we defining black? One parent? Both parents? All four grand parents? All eight grandparents? Is blue-black different to brown-black? I mean, really, who is honestly capable of adjudicating such an arbitrary line?
Secondly - the saddest bit is that in China and India, most of the rest of Asia, vast swathes of South América and in the Antarctic… this ridiculous made-up bullshit scenario would have little immediate impact; apart from a mention on the news.
Thinking, even as a thought experiment, the stupidity of this question beggars belief, in my opinion. Maybe it’s a self-tell that you jump on your white stallion to defend this worthless stirring of tensions in possible hypothetical scenarios.
More power to you, brother. Fight that fight… from behind your screen.
To be fair people without brown eyes are heretics and heathens
Pretty rich, coming from a mudeye
Blue eyes came from a mutation! Death to the muties!!!!
Is it like everyone turned white or every non white person has disappeared? The first one is the most "fun" to imagine, as in the other case, we lost a lot of people and that's very sad...
You can imagine people of color experiencing strong body disphoria at first.
Maybe grouping by ex color vs always white, and people pretending to be from one group or the other since their will be no way to discern.
Maybe language, accents and dialect can be used to try to flag people (for those who cares of course).
Maybe hair color would be another way to discriminate people, before eyes color. Height? Tattoo? We would always find ways unfortunately...
Other impact might be mass migration as white skin is not adapted to sunny weather. Lots of sunburn...
Cults created around this event (the Whitening), some see it as good, other as a tragedy. Whatever happened was unexplainable and baffles scientist around the world. Maybe a belief that another wave of color change will happen in the future.
Support group for people who lost their color.
The immense celebrity of the first new baby of color that will be born, maybe making color a very precious attributes.
You could write so many scenario in this world, but it would be pretty heavy handed as literature 😅
"This is a picture of me at 5 years old, I was clearly always white"
"Nuh uh that's AI"
Writers are too afraid of being heavy-handed, the world sometimes needs things to be really spelled out
Good one with pictures and AI! I haven't thought of that at all.
You might be right, but it would be hard to publish a book with this concept and not create at least a small controversy. But that may be the point of Art in a way? Shake things up and create dialog? But it would almost seems tame compared to what is happening in the real world IDK 😐
If the world's going to fall apart we can at least have fun and publish controversial books
They make a mistake they said no black people and only white people left. What about all the other colours and "races" that exist.
Oh yeah you're right, it feels extremely racist now to only target black people, not that it wasn't about race before 😅
white people only
Well... didn't expect to read this within my lifetime outside of historical documents
Not responding to the initial prompt, as it is rather idiotic and nonproductive
It was deleted by reddit. It's probably a good idea to upload i.redd.it images somewhere else before posting here.
It was still on reddit for me. I uploaded it just in case: People talk about country ban for some reddit post
It will be hair color first. I have red hair so I'm next on the petty hate machine.
Literally already happened a dozen times. Some power hungry piece of shit is already trying to convince his (it's always a man) neighbors them down-the-block Whites are going to kill them unless they donate to the "Nah I'm a good one" fund. You can't leave too many White people alone. Just look at the Hamptons. Or the US South. Or US history in any window of time.
I think hair color would be the more obvious first choice, though it is changeable. Someone mentioned skin color again and I agree that would likely happen. Were I to throw an odd one out: handedness becomes the next source of discrimination.
As for what I would do, immediately mourn the loss of my wife and probably die in short order since white people make up a tiny fraction of Japan's population and certain sensitive jobs aren't open to those who aren't Japanese citizens anyway meaning all kinds of stuff breaks down almost immediately.
Grieve.
Only right answer.
If they disappear, yeah. Otherwise if they just turn white...
Everyone watching their culture be literally whitewashed away by an unexplainable cosmic event
Historically white was based on religion.
Probably piss because first thing in the morning I normally don't check the news so I wouldn't know it happened.
You go to flush and the water has already stopped working.
Define white though. Does it include traditionally "olive skinned" nationalities?
Hair color
First half of the 20th century, they talked about hair colour like it was three extra genders.
My hair color certainly got me some nicknames when I was younger, bordering on slurs.
gingers at the lowest rung, while blue yes, blonde at the top, other superficial features, 6' tall, . they would also exclude "invalids"
We already divide by Irish, Jew, etc.
Not many black people around where I live so I probably would not even notice
All of Africa would be without civilization, just isolated pockets of Asians and white people on trips to find themselves, now without local guides. They're all going to die unless the remaining governments organize rescue missions. You would hear about this.
Without civilization, it becomes difficult to sustain farms and mines, so even if governments fly in farmers, farm hands and miners to claim the fields and mines, the plants will wither and the mines will barely run. While I imagine most crops are produced for the local market that also died, African products for the global economy, chocolate, palm oil, gold and uranium, will see their prices shoot through the roof in anticipation of the inevitable crop failure and ore shortages. You would hear about this.
Inevitably, unclaimed land with huge amounts of profitable farmland and mines will receive claims, from China, who invested a lot into local infrastructure, former colonial powers reinstating their borders, or whatever remains of Arabian states whose populations didn't qualify, and also whoever could fly in some pioneers and reestablish trade routes. That will result in border frictions, skirmishes and maybe full on war. It's possible you would miss the war, I personally always forget the US-Iran war is still happening, so I'll give you that. US would probably stay out of that one, trying to restart its own agricultural industry.
I never said I would not find out it happened. Probably hear about it in a couple days because even without all the consequences auch a high amount of people vanishing would be strange and reported on.
I would in my daily goings on probably not notice it because I cannot recall the last time I saw a black person more than just like at a glance. There really is just so few of them here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Elliott#First_exercise_involving_eye_color
Morally very dubious test, but otherwise illustrates the problem quite clearly.
5 hour podcast explaining why brown-eyed people aren't technically "white" about to hit Truth Social...
They already did, if that didn't exist, they'd divide themselves by language, which is a thing in Europe, except it got less popular due to the importing of American White Nationalism.
STORMIN LIGHTEYES
Go find my black friends that are white now and see if their white is acceptable, or Italian
Hang out with my asian friends
It'd be like Yesterday except you'd have license to invent basically all forms of popular music.
The new hotness would be religion ... again. The Abrahamic deathcults cannot tolerate any competing point of view, regardless of skin color.
Probably have a panic attack about most of humanity being gone including multiple friends and acquaintances.
This is a horror movie I do not wish to imagine
I can think of a new rearrangement of a racist word that would become the defacto usage.
GINGERS!
Irish and Italians
There's more than white and black.
It's all a bunch of cultural communities with no basis in biological science, who exactly counts as white black brown etc. changes pretty regularly
Idk if I count as white, but grieve heavily, because many of my friends aren't white.
Are they black? Seems like Indian, any Asians are all safe they just say no black people, so do they consider everyone else white.
The far right already dislike white people from eastern Europe
An infinite number of podcasts would appear commenting on who was white enough to survive the race rapture.
What do you do? Well, not dance, for one.
No more basketball either :/
No one could jump anymore
Bigots are gonna bigot. For these regressive knuckle-draggers, there's no future with zero divisions between groups human beings. Even if the entire human race were all genetic clones of each other, they'd find a way.
One group would be for bigots.
they will divide by the whites that have darker skin, then goes to religion , like jewish people.
Wonder why tf all my coworkers vanished from existence (I work in IT, they're literally all Indian contractors). I live in NH so it would probably take me a while to notice otherwise lmfao
Frantically search for my wife? She's neither white nor black so doesn't technically fit this yet I'd be forced to assume a malevolent enemy is experimenting on mankind.
Well, a huge part of our economy would collapse.
A huge chunk of the export of goods and labour from "non-white" countries would obviously stop. Just imagine how many companies would be robbed of their outsourced IT. Clothing made in southern Asia. Metals from Africa. Oil. Cheap off-season produce. The list is long.
On the other hand, their absent imports would ruin, for instance, farmers whose income depends on the export of grain. Many of the net importers of food are "non-white" countries, so that would be one market breaking down.
Even if we disregard the personal loss, the economic implosion would rapidly have us turning on each other in a panicked attempt to secure a future in the unpredictable upheaval.
You didn't even have to remove white people for black people to start subdividing into shades of black. Racism is stupid. Being a certain race doesn't make it any more or less stupid for you to do it.
Degrees of whiteness, someone who is translucent like me probably ends up in the camps.
So, like that episode of Fairly Odd Parents where Timmy wishes everyone was a gray blob, but people still picked on him because they were "grayer."
It's not just white people, look at post-colonial states. Africa and Latin America has had in-fighting after independence, but thankfully Latin America haven't been at war with each other since early 20th century. Central Asia and Caucasus after the fall of the Soviet Union are not getting along. And I don't need to mention the Middle East. India and Pakistan are always dick measuring. I think East Asia is the only region where there haven't had a prolong intra-fighting, but only because the fragmented geography makes cross-country invasions pretty much impossible.
Non-American here...... So it's only black people or are my best drinking buddies (Bosnian and Turkish) Even more important question does my Chinese wife, my half Chinese daughter and my wonderful mother-in-law still exist...?
I get this question is from an American who doesn't actually understand the world.. But it makes me very irate.
If this was Reddit I'd go on a long drunken rant...(I actually started trying to explain)
Holy shit America, Elon Musk is the reason you are suffering right now.
This is made only in jest:
We all saw that Fairly Oddparents episode, right?
Only white people? Probably hang myself or something.
The left handed people will be beat again. They know what they did.
Also, are we counting the Irish as black again?
no no no, that's silly. We genocide the gingers!!!!
and after the eyes comes something else and after that something else. until the last person on planet kills the second last.
We keep the women
Leave my front door unlocked for once?
Racist here. Scandinavian decent. TBH, I could do without people with Italian, German, Irish, French, or English decent.
I think you meant descent.
Also, I hope you get trampled by a moose /j
I could do without you specifically.