Discussion A society with no minorities or majorities

[DoNotLet2]

I have a weird idea, Idk if I should post it.
How would it be if there was no minorities or majorities, just one big society? People would have rights they deserved, not the rights their minority/majority earned for them. People would treat one another individually. There would be no racism, because we wouldn't be divided. Is it a bad idea or just weird?

 

[Sweet emotion]

I have a weird idea, Idk if I should post it.
How would it be if there was no minorities or majorities, just one big society? People would have rights they deserved, not the rights their minority/majority earned for them. People would treat one another individually. There would be no racism, because we wouldn't be divided. Is it a bad idea or just weird?

It's just an unrealistic idea. There is always going to be racism.

 

[DoNotLet2]

I mean there ofc would be hate, but it would be directed at individuals, not at the groups.

 

[noaccount]

Yes - this is I think the healthiest of all possible goals - and there has not always been racism, Drawing The Color Line gives a good history of how people were divided into races in modern nation-states. Some people believe that this is possible in Liberal Democracy, but as long as Liberal Democracy is based off Capitalism people are forced to compete with each other, and the class that owns most of the land and industry will need some nations, some ethnic groups, and some other populations (prisoners, the unemployed) to be hyper-exploited or treated as "reserve armies of labor" to keep control over more privileged workers, those of us living in the imperial core, etc. (We may both gain privilege AND LOSE POWER due to others being exploited in our place - we may have more immediate access to wealth stolen from the Third World, but lose collective bargaining rights if our jobs can be outsourced or re-assigned to incarcerated people.) Many Anarchist and Socialist movements have been guided by an Internationalism that sees all people as sisters and brothers, that we should not be divided by borders or given power based on race, but these philosophies often hold that we must fight against the Class System because it's a central source of racism, sexism, etc.

 

[Fragile]

maybe after technology and AI takes over, after we somehow manage to "upload" or consciousness to some place, that society can exist, once we realize that there are very little differences between each other and the simple errors in our beings can be fixed while still being ourselves, we could all truly be equal.

i know i'm talking like a cliche villain in a dystopian future setting, but i believe that this is the end goal of humanity and technology, no more suffering and seemingly eternal lives of being who we really are without being bound to barbaric concepts such as prejudice. once we are all the same then there will be no more conflict, but we humans thrive in conflict so in a way, it means loosing our humanity, althoug that's not such a bad thing.

 

[freefrommybody]

I certainly wish there was only one race, and even that humans were all hermaphrodites like worms (for social purposes, as I'm personally fine with my genitals).

 

[Sweet emotion]

I certainly wish there was only one race, and even that humans were all hermaphrodites like worms (for social purposes, as I'm personally fine with my genitals).

I agree with the one race part.

 

[Heart of Ice]

It's just an unrealistic idea. There is always going to be racism.

Technically there can be no racism if the country is only one race. Don't call me a Nazi, I'm kidding.

EDIT: Alright, it seems other people have commented the same thing. Sorry, I just posted real wuick without reading the other posts.

 

[Soul]

My idea is that we should all get new bodies every 4 or 5 days, on a not-quite-regular basis. So anyone could wake up tall, gorgeous, black, female, white, elderly, Asian, overweight, handicapped, male, pregnant, or anything else. Prejudice could still exist I suppose but would be awfully hard to maintain.

 

[DoNotLet2]

Nooo I mean there would be many different races, but there would be no minorities or majorities. It simply wouldn't matter whether you're African-American, autistic, Asian, whatever. We would be a society that treats everyone individually. You didn't understand me :(
Actually I very very like capitalism, because there can't be equality in other systems.
So much people think capitalism has monopolies but actually capitalism can't have monopolies. Socialism is bad.
Well capitalism isn't perfect, but socialism will hurt people much more.
Capitalism lets stronger people do their best while "harming" weaker, socialism protects weaker while harming stronger.
We just need to remove the pressure to be the best from our lives. Because currently the society is broken, you have to be the best, you can't just be ok. And it will make the Earth Hell no matter whether we have socialism or capitalism. So I strongly disagree with you.
The problem is few people know about the capitalism without monopolies. It should be like several dozen small companies making similar product, not just one.
Socialism won't work from one reason. If I work harder and make more money than I need that money will be given to the people that don't work as well as I do. So I shouldn't make more money than I need because it makes no sense. What is the solution to that problem?

 

[noaccount]

The reason people do not know about that is because it does not exist in the world, presently or historically.
Certainly no solution lies within an arrangement where meeting needs still depends primarily on Money - those attempts are just Social Democracy (scandanavia) or State Capitalism (ussr, etc), and both quite counter-revolutionary.

 

[DoNotLet2]

So maybe let's try it out? Emm we rely on money because we're taught to since the very beginning of the school. The school based on socialism rules.