Twist, it is a completely novel race, no one looks normal anymore
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I'd like for everyone to have green skin and antennae
I was thinking less alien, more realistic.
Maybe everyone is now a vaguely human looking Dusky Leaf Monkey.
Imagine the skin color patterns, being extra hairy, and looking somewhere between cute and uncanny valley.
The British have never needed race to start fights with the French.
Fucking Gauls.
Nah they would just invent new races. What's the point of race? What does it mean exactly? Notice that the races in the US at least roughly align with economic classes.
That's not an accident. Obviously without the concept of races, people would still have different skin color and hair, but the implications would be entirely different. Culture, neighborhoods, etc. wouldn't be separated. And most importantly, it would be ever so slightly harder for rich people to make the majority feel like they're in the same group as them as opposed to some "other".
So if there was only one race, the rich would need to invent new ones.
A see a few people here saying “they” when we should be using “we.” Just by using “they” you’re exhibiting the mindset of “they, not me” and “us vs them.” Racism is just one facet of it.
Or better yet, everyone appears to be whatever the new mono-race is, but in mirrors and other reflections and photos, racists see their least favorite race.
That way they still get to suffer.
Race is just one tool the parasite class uses...
There is gender and ethnicity and religion...
Possibilities are endless!
Race isn't really important to anyone but americans? There is racism everywhere, obviously, but race itself isn't important.
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Lol wot. You think we wouldn't get all caste system in this piece son?
First, we are only one race
Second, outside of certain countries overly obsessed with skin colour, we in the rest of the world have other ways of hating each other: cultural background, religion, economical status, education.
See also: The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K Le Guin.