cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/52141910
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- 9 days
Probably try to figure out what the hell happened. the majority of the population of earth vanishing would be a bit alarming
8 daysMy theory is that there’s a US flag every few meters in the USA because they are so bad at geography that they wouldn’t know in which country they are.
US? Did you mean the divided states formerly known as the country between Mexico and Canada?
Those of their citizens that would need a flag to know where they are would always just assume that they are in Magastan regardless of what they see around them.
- 9 days
White people make up approximately 15-16% of the population https://factually.co/fact-checks/society/white-population-percentage-world-f6aeb8
- tpihkal@lemmy.worldEnglish9 days
Well, of course. Do you want a bunch of soulless gingers plaguing the earth?
- 9 days
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.
- troybot@piefed.socialEnglish9 days
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.
- 9 days
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.
Hair color is too easy to change. White people really value the immutable
Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, “Don’t do it!” He said, “Nobody loves me.” I said, “God loves you. Do you believe in God?”
He said, “Yes.” I said, “Are you a Christian or a Jew?” He said, “A Christian.” I said, “Me, too! Protestant or Catholic?” He said, “Protestant.” I said, “Me, too! What franchise?” He said, “Baptist.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?” He said, “Northern Baptist.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?”
He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?” He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region.” I said, “Me, too!”
Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?" He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912.” I said, “Die, heretic!” And I pushed him over.
- Emo Philips
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.
Absolutely. I was just laughing at the original post forgetting that half the planet doesn’t exactly fit into the black/white classification.
Okay, aside from the obvious “what the fuck happened to all the people” racist Thanos snap of it all, my real question is this: who is left behind? Because “white” is a made up category. I have 2% African ancestry, do I stay or do I go now? I have some level I don’t remember if Asian ancestry, less than 5 percent. I also have higher than average neanderthal DNA. Does that part count as white? They’re likely European Neanderthals… Go far enough back, obviously, and all humans are African descended.
Where do we draw the line? Because honestly, if there’s some weird racist god out there snapping away people based on their DNA, I need to know the rules so I can make proper arrangements!
Yes, In the early 20th century, Irish and Italians didn’t count, so the O’Reillys and Giulianis that people conservative (xenophobic) America would have a sharp surprise.
- 8 days
Was just about to say “You reckon the magical racist thanos snap would finally recognize north african and middle-eastern and azerbaijani and circassian and… groups as white now or still no?”
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.
- 9 days
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.
No, colonialism made us like this. This is not human nature, not completely
- QueenHawlSera@piefed.socialEnglish8 days
I can already hear this world’s Charlie Kirk claiming brown eyed people are responsible for 9001% of the violent crimes.
Yeah so basically he had this procedure done that drained all the toxicity out of his personality just over a year ago and ever since then he has become the very model of “the only good kind of fascist”. Incredible growth. I wish all fascists could improve as people in the exact same way he did.
- QueenHawlSera@piefed.socialEnglish8 days
I’m gonna come out and say it, mask off. I’m tired of pretending “Oh I disagreed with Kirk but he didn’t deserve to die.”
Robinson deserves a fucking medal. Fascists like Kirk can’t be reasoned with, when they’re put down we should applaud.
Kirk was a dangerous person, if he had his way myself and others like me would be stoned to death for being queer.
- 8 days
Sounds like a very successful program! If only it were more widespread so it could reach racists everywhere!
- 8 days
It’s pretty vague and a lot of them are bordering on pseudoscience, but there are studies out there linking eye color to various positive/negative personality traits. Realistically, I think it’s likely linking to genetic markers that are correlated but not necessarily causal but genetics is not my field of study.
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.
- 8 days
They had all the other colors (and even fire red with cool patterns !) and the white people STILL organized themselves by eye color 🤦
In America, they would not have very long before they started having to forage for food.
A majorly significant portion of the workforce for agriculture are non-white.
There may be a few locations that can maintain business as usual, but the world is going to collapse, and it’s not a question of if it’s a question of when, and I’m guessing for most people that will be less than 30 days.
Of course I won’t be there to see it, I will have been raptured along with the rest of everyone, so best of luck.
- 8 days
Aren’t most agricultural workers in the US hispanic? They aren’t WASP, but most of them aren’t exactly black, either.
“Only white people” is what I’m going off of. That would mean no Asians, no natives, no middle eastern people. Just whites.
The whites would survive, but the world would be a different place and a lot of them would die from starvation and/or some inability to adapt to the world suddenly without people of color.
That would be true even if the 6.5 billion or so people that evaporated from the planet were chosen indiscriminately of race though, but given the vocational specialization of white vs nonwhite people then it would be worse for the survivors right at the beginning in the whites only scenario.
- psud@aussie.zoneEnglish9 days
Only white people.
Asia: empty
Africa: empty
Maybe southern Europe also empty
Does this fix climate change?
- ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish9 days
No, we’ll just consume more.
We’re doing a lot of bullshit. Research shows we could maintain our effective lifestyle while cutting consumption by up to 60%
- late_pessimistic@slrpnk.netEnglish9 days
No, because 10% of richest people on Earth (majorly Western Bloc, including Europe) are responsible for 50-66% of global emissions.
For example:
Ethiopian is responsible for 0.14 tonnes of CO2 emissions yearly on average.
A Swede on average is responsible for 3.43 tonnes of emissions.
An American is responsible for 13.83 tonnes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions_per_capita
The issue isn’t overpopulation, not at all, but that we have a bunch of countries with hyperconsumerist economy, a car in every household, high electricity usage, accessible red meat, air-conditioning etc.
- psud@aussie.zoneEnglish9 days
White is about 10% of the population. It doesn’t matter much that the 7 billion gone used less than them. 8 billion to 800 million. It feels like it can’t help but reduce the world CO2 output significantly
And then the economic damage of losing Asia is unimaginable. You’ve never seen a depression like that would be. No manufactured goods would be available until Europe and the remains of America bring up industry
- 9 days
Nah, more realistically they’ll just went back to say Italians aren’t really white and so on.
