Use CRISPR to delete skin colour so everyone will be the same colour in the future

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Unable_Try1305@reddit

I assume the result with be lily white as fuck since that's the result of absence of melanin. Surprise you replaced racism with an insanely high rate of skin cancer for most of humanity.

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sparrio@reddit (OP)

We shouldn’t choose between black or white we should just get a colour no one has been. Like pink? Or maybe liver failure yellow? it could also be grey

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I didn't assume the OP was choosing custom colors, I just assumed the removal of all melanin when they said "delete skin color" since that is what causes skin color. Jaundice yellow would be the next easiest skin color since we already possess the "ability" to make that pigment (bilirubin). I doubt it provides any UV resistance but it definitely would change how we all look.

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duskfinger67@reddit

Which skin colour are you choosing? I can’t see any potential problems with this decision...

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Sorry-Climate-7982@reddit

Why not just make us all purple? We could use different colors for different generations but I expect that would lead us right back to where we are.

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Lykos1124@reddit

I would prefer hex #00FF79 thank you very much. https://www.color-hex.com/color/00ff79

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Sorry-Climate-7982@reddit

Little bit too dull, maybe just a tad darker and a bit more yellow?

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Lykos1124@reddit

It is a bit bright actually. I was leaning towards a darker verson of that but I didn't want to pick an arbitrary looking hex and settled on an exact 0.255.127 I'd say dropping lumosity down to 60% makes this a lot more asthetically pleasing. [https://www.color-hex.com/color/009947](https://www.color-hex.com/color/009947) Admitedly, if this was a true ski tone, there would be an averaging effect from various in between shades that'd look more natural than a flat color picked off a wheel. here's me dinking around with a hue/sat setting on some skin to show what it could look like. [https://imgur.com/a/wuScFNb](https://imgur.com/a/wuScFNb)

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Sorry-Climate-7982@reddit

Oh, you were going for more pleasing. I was thinking more of a fluorescent look,

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INTstictual@reddit

OK Bluemers

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FeaturelessPat@reddit

OP said remove the color so I think they mean transparent skin.

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handym12@reddit

Reminds me of the story Clear as Mud. A kid gets bitten by some new species of beetle, and it turns his skin transparent. Everyone runs from him because being able to see all his bones, muscles, and organs is quite terrifying, so he goes and lives in a cave. Eventually, he eats the bug, getting bitten again in the process, and his skin returns to normal, so he returns to civilisation only to realise that everyone else now has transparent skin and they're all terrified of him because they can't see his bones, muscles, and organs.

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Devatator_@reddit

What the fuck?

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ItsAPeacefulLife@reddit

No kidding. A spoiler tag would have been nice.

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handym12@reddit

Sorry, it came out in '93. I thought everyone would have gotten around to reading this incredibly obscure Australian kids' horror anthology by now. /s

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ItsAPeacefulLife@reddit

I'm just getting through my collection of obscure Dutch kids horror anthologies 😆

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handym12@reddit

I think it's from what's essentially the Aussie version of Goosebumps. Somehow it ended up in my UK school library. We ended up with a few things like that in the UK, actually. Round the Twist was one that was on TV. I think it was about a family who lived in a lighthouse and weird supernatural stuff happened to them. Kind of fitted well alongside The Queen's Nose - about a magic, wish-granting 50p coin.

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exkingzog@reddit

So…albino. Can’t see any problems there.

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FeaturelessPat@reddit

No they're white deluxe. I mean transparent. Aaaaall the organs on display!

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exkingzog@reddit

Great. Sunburnt liver.

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ctothel@reddit

Behold the Barreleye fish https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/photo-transparent-fish-animals

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FeaturelessPat@reddit

Bet they don't have any racism.

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exkingzog@reddit

“Hats off to the zebras They are black and white But they don’t fight”

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when_music_hits@reddit

Didn't work too well for yellowman

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TheReservedList@reddit

The exact average of all currently existing humans.

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geoponos@reddit

That's probably something close to brown.

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Accomplished_Ant5895@reddit

Green

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SwordfishAltruistic4@reddit

Delete all melanin. Everyone is an albino now.

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Canabananilism@reddit

Cool idea! After that we can start discriminating against people in entirely new and exciting ways! Was getting pretty tired of people judging people based on skin colour all the time. Like, get some new material already!

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Casiquire@reddit

You think the biggest problem to fix with racism is all the different colors of skin?

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sparrio@reddit (OP)

Isn’t racism based on someone’s skincolour of what ethnicity they have? Or is racism about the behaviour they show? Cuz I know some changes with that as well

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No_Reading3618@reddit

Racism is based on their race bro... Skin color is what they use to judge which race you are so they can apply the appropriate racism. Like, many Asians are just as pale as white people but still face racism...

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Casiquire@reddit

Those aren't answers to my question. The problem that needs to be addressed with racism has nothing to do with the victims of it. Your "fix" does not address the problem. The problem is, specifically, the belief that skin color itself needs to be fixed. What you think is the solution is the root of the problem

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No_Reading3618@reddit

Yes, as we know Europeans famously got along really well throughout history since they're mostly all categorized as white.

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Blinky_@reddit

So basically use genetic engineering rather than war to perform ethnic cleansing?

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sparrio@reddit (OP)

Yes! Best idea ever. Everyone will be Asian since no one really has problems with yellow skin but they do with white and black

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LeviathanGoesToSleep@reddit

Asian is still a very broad definition. Will we all look like Siberians, Japanese, Indonesians or maybe like Indians? Oh I almost forgot, they have their caste system too

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LUK3FAULK@reddit

>yellow Ahh so you are just racist lol

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sparrio@reddit (OP)

I’m asian you donkey

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LUK3FAULK@reddit

Fair enough. it’s impossible to know that online, and the whole “erase skin color” (aka make it so there’s a single skin color) tends to set off the racism-o-meter

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sparrio@reddit (OP)

So now that I’m Asian it’s not racist anymore? You thought I was white and that’s why you called me a racist. That’s pretty racist if you ask me..

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LUK3FAULK@reddit

It’s like how a black guy saying the N word isn’t racist but if I (a white dude) said it I would get called out pretty quick lol. I don’t make the rules on this but please correct me if I’m wrong

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me_myself_ai@reddit

Tbf skin color isn’t race, it’s just a highly-American proxy for it.

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SwoodyBooty@reddit

Nono, you see, we then cleanse the world from the unmodified.

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ElevenDollars@reddit

OP never watches Fairly Oddparents

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rdmodsrtrsh@reddit

Those ripple nipple bastards are a plight on this great nation

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SeanFromQueens@reddit

Oof, who's going tell him that bigotry won't be eliminated with the elimination of skin color. England Protestants and Irish Catholics are the same pasty white Christians yet there's not an elimination of discrimination.

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shuckster@reddit

Dude, people hate those in the next *town* from them. Or the next street. Or the next house. Basically, humans have a “neighbours” problem. I say let’s do it.

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sparrio@reddit (OP)

Well I’d rather hate my neighbours than a black guy. If I hate my neighbour I’m just a dick and if I hate a black guy I’m racist. But if there isn’t any colour you can’t be racist some dan just hate whoever I want

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shuckster@reddit

What if your neighbour is black and a complete douche bag?

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sparrio@reddit (OP)

Well we have to deport him because I don’t want to be a racist dick

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shuckster@reddit

It's racist to hate douche bags?

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Excellent-Pain-5479@reddit

Every couple minutes a redditor somewhere reinvents eugenics

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ThatSandwich@reddit

I find the skin color debate funny because it just corresponds to melanin concentration which reduces skin cancer rates as it goes up.

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1acc_torulethemall@reddit

And seemingly with the best intentions!

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skeeterfunny@reddit

Good thing skin color is the only kind of racism in the world

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chickenclaw@reddit

We will just find another way to hate each other. Tribalism is hardwired into our OS.

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NeighborhoodDude84@reddit

We would just end up as star belly snetches trying to figure out what is the "in" group is.

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0x14f@reddit

If you remove skin colour, I guarantee you we gonna find something else to discriminate on. You're just displaced the problem.

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Pocket_Summary444@reddit

Sad human nature

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iamayoutuberiswear@reddit

It's not human nature, though. Bigotry is a cultural thing, it's not like it's coded into our DNA. It can be changed.

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INTstictual@reddit

I believe it has been shown that a tendency towards tribalism is hardwired into our brain — the way we fight it is usually by considering the entire human race our “tribe”, rather than specific in-groups like race, nationality, religion, etc.

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Accomplished_Ant5895@reddit

There we go: Use CRISPR to remove tribalism instinct.

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Addicted2Weasels@reddit

It’s like people missed the day of history class where we learned about The Sneeches

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aurumatom20@reddit

You don't even really have to find it, other features have been used historically to discriminate against groups that are currently considered white, and eugenics people have been using bullshit like skull shape for at least a century.

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Boomer79NZ@reddit

Exactly.

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AstronomicalStress@reddit

This post sponsored by Melanoma

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JohnnyDigsIt@reddit

It’s a nice thought; but, if everyone naturally looked identical we would still find ways to separate into groups and some groups would hate other groups. We all just have to do our best to tolerate everyone except the intolerant.

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ItsAPeacefulLife@reddit

We will always be tribalistic, we haven't evolved enough to not want to be around people similar to us. It's a worthy goal to have irregardless

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JungleCakes@reddit

I was down until you said get rid of redheads.

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ItsAPeacefulLife@reddit

Op watched the Born Free music video by M.I.A. too many times.

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Sarctoth@reddit

Ah Summer. First race war, huh?

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ItsAPeacefulLife@reddit

Weather's getting nice, those pallets of bricks ain't gonna throw themselves.

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Tiexandrea@reddit

The last time someone tried something like this, he started a world war and ended more than six million people.

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sparrio@reddit (OP)

I kill billions of bacteria every single day, those 6 million lives are rookie numbers. Give me some isopropyl alcohol and a cloth and I can get those numbers to a trillion within a week

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ZookeepergameSalty10@reddit

Orrrr and heres a crazy idea, we just stop being racist. We are all stupid monkeys on a spinning ball paying taxes to pedophiles.

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SexThrowaway1126@reddit

And you could use CRISPR to put stars on some people’s bellies.

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visk0n3@reddit

We're already all the same race : homo sapiens sapiens. Doesn't prevent us from happily hating and killing each others.

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GHOST--1@reddit

aye bro, who you callin' a homo

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visk0n3@reddit

Literally everybody on this godforsaken space travelling rock.

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Temporary_Pie8723@reddit

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Kind-Stomach6275@reddit

Who you calling a sapiens sapiens

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ready_james_fire@reddit

No homo?

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blessthebabes@reddit

Didn't at some point we all have the same two ancestors (and now we're arguing about levels of melanin with our cousins)?

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Electronic_Rush1492@reddit

People don't hate on black people because of the color of their skin, they do it because of they're perceived to be more criminal in behavior, more violent, dumber, etc. It's not literally just skin color. If black people had white skin racism against them would still exist

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Jordzy2j@reddit

"Yes, but we're greyer and blobbier than you!"

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athomsfere@reddit

Delete skin color so we all become albino? Even if we could sort of do that without all the obviously bad side effects (Vision problems) The lack of genetic diversity there could one day prove a problem. We adapted to various environments, just yanking out all those adaptions could seriously jeopardize our long term survival.

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sparrio@reddit (OP)

It’s actually not that hard to change the skincolor of an embryo. I’ve edited a chickens MC1R genes which affect the black and red pigments. The results aren’t great, it’s either no pigment of all pigment or it’s in patches, there is never a clear result (yet) so it is very much possible, we just haven’t perfected it. This was at school by the way ik not some mad scientist. Silkie chickens are black but if you remove the fibromelanosis mutation by editing and altering the EDN3 genes you can make them have a white chicken skin. Ethical? No definitely not. Gene editing should only be used to erase diseases, and disorders or genetic things like COPD or cardiac diseases. This was just a unserious crazy idea post

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WeeabooHunter69@reddit

This sub try not to reinvent eugenics challenge (impossible)

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Wishing-I-Was-A-Cat@reddit

People generally can tell the race of people with albinism. There are other racialized features and this solution relies on deciding what features are worth keeping, which is, you know, eugenics.

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sparrio@reddit (OP)

Were all gonna be the same; like birds. They all look the same but only they know who is who

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Wishing-I-Was-A-Cat@reddit

Birds choose mates based on physical characteristics such as color. There are still differences, we are just not attuned to see them the same way we see differences between humans.

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Maleficent-Remote413@reddit

I want to go the OPPOSITE direction. lets have some wild unatural colors.

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Beautiful-Wish-8916@reddit

Use it for interracial trans and beauty

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sparrio@reddit (OP)

That just makes it worse

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Beautiful-Wish-8916@reddit

Other option is doomsday apocalypse

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IllMaintenance145142@reddit

You will stop racism but not discrimination. Morons will always find something else to discriminate against.

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OneEyedWonderWiesel@reddit

You guys ready for the “WINO” acronym from idiots?

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ScientistSanTa@reddit

Everyone in very sun exposed regions will die of cancer unless we're all black. But then heat regulation in cold climates will be harder.

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sparrio@reddit (OP)

We aren’t making people white, we’re making them Asian

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Rgreen1202@reddit

One assumes in this scenario that while humanity has retained the ability to tailor our genetic makeup, we no longer have the technology to produce sunscreen or hats?

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skatelakai12@reddit

Why build gas chambers when the job can be done before birth!

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Sqeakydeaky@reddit

There are other features that distinguish different races than just skin color

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Eeyore3066@reddit

I like having my ginger genes thank you

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jaguass@reddit

That would be a win for racism...

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ChaseballBat@reddit

Then we're going to have new racism of holdouts (holdies) vs blanks (blanknecks).

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Loud_Fuel@reddit

Better yet use crispr tomake everyone highly rational beings like spock. All problems will be solved automatically.

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ggrieves@reddit

There is an [old movie that you should see that is relevant here] (https://youtu.be/PdLPe7XjdKc?feature=shared)

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BaitmasterG@reddit

We should just remove all skin, don't even need genetic mumbo jumbo for that, plus we get to send people into a salt mine for a laugh

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GREGORYfromtheFUTURE@reddit

Well maybe just make it a choice. Human extravagance will make skin colors so random that stereotypes become meaningless.

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krymson@reddit

skin color protects you from the sun or provides you more vitamin d, so this will fuck up peoples health.

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Yetanotherdeafguy@reddit

We'll find new reasons to hate each other. The point isn't that others are different, it's that we can only feel we belong when there's an 'other' whose the outsider.

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