There are probably trillions of different alien species that live out there in the multiverse. Some of them are at a prehistoric level of culture, like that tribe in the more recent Star Trek flick that came out a few years ago. Some of them might even paint their faces and such, and I bet they do so proudly. To them it would be some sort of artistic expression, or tribal unity thing, or whatever, but would it be racist in any way??? Of course not, that would be fucking silly...
Which leads me to my point. On earth, if a white person wears black paint, or vice versa, it would be considered highly racist. Take a moment to absorb that...
You can't even wear those colors on your face if you want to! What if you just think it looks cool?!
This thought is slightly bugging me, because the prehistoric level aliens would already be past all of that nonsense, meanwhile, we are a species that heavily politicizes face paint...FUCKING FACE PAINT! But that's ok, we sexualize animals and inanimate objects, and we anthropomorphize things like trees and clouds...so...
Good job humans! Can't anything just be what it is, without it also being something else? Must we constantly overthink, distort, and ultimately corrupt everything we touch??? (or is that just me...)Anyway, moral of the story, humans are fucked up. <3
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