- cross-posted to:
- cosmere@sh.itjust.works
- lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- cosmere@sh.itjust.works
- lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
pretty telling that first reation of some here can be summed with: what is really white?
pretty telling that first reation of some here can be summed with: what is really white?
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 😅