Political Memes

It will be skin colour again, but limited to a tighter spectrum.

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.

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.

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.

"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.

This goes for every human population, by the way.

What, you think only Europe had racism and discrimination through history?

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.

Never trust lighteyes!

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?

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.

Something something Stormlight Archive.

History already showed what happens. 90% chance people start going for the Irish.

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.

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.

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?

All the racism in the world will be concentrated onto the left-handed, gingers, and the Welsh.

The kind of future Lovecraft would want.

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.

Storming brighteyes and their storming sense of superiority

Surelly anti-gingerism would become the norm.

(Though maybe that's just an UK thing)

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.

they already divide by, income, and certain parts of the city/county they live in.

Dead ass what would happen, gingers would become the new "blacks"

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 😅