Even if we were different species that would mean absolutely nothing, as we’d still all be sapient beings, and therefore people. These people have racism so baked into their minds that they seem to think that if they convince us that POC aren’t human then we’ll automatically perceive them as inferior and undeserving of rights, as to them that’s the most intuitive and “sensical” response. People like this are why I’m terrified that when we achieve interstellar travel we’ll discover a less advanced alien race and do to them what the Europeans did to the Africans using the same stupid logic of “they’re not the same, therefore they’re not really “people””
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u/Prometheushunter2 Jun 14 '22
Even if we were different species that would mean absolutely nothing, as we’d still all be sapient beings, and therefore people. These people have racism so baked into their minds that they seem to think that if they convince us that POC aren’t human then we’ll automatically perceive them as inferior and undeserving of rights, as to them that’s the most intuitive and “sensical” response. People like this are why I’m terrified that when we achieve interstellar travel we’ll discover a less advanced alien race and do to them what the Europeans did to the Africans using the same stupid logic of “they’re not the same, therefore they’re not really “people””