The Aliens did a little trolling

While saying, "stupid assholes there are no proper races of humans just color variations".
- Human "races" are Functionally more closely related to dog breeds than anything else, but far less extreme in variation of features.
  A chihuahua is more different compared to a great dane than you are from any other ethnicity of fellow human.
  
  Who is downvoting this??

I guess we can eliminate formula one. Seems kinda boring to me.
- I'll take F1 over Nascar any day.
  Disclaimer: I've never sat down to watch either, but if the choices are "turn left" or "winding, twisting course" I think I'm going with the one that has more variety.
  
  Massive F1 fan here.
  It's more of an engineering sport than a driving sport. Don't get me wrong– the drivers are absolutely top notch and do an incredible job and it's entertaining to watch. But since it's sooooo engineering and development based, you cars that perform different on different tracks (cuz of elevation, temperature, track design, surface).
  It's pretty neat; worth a watch sometime!
  
  It's the difference between a marathon and an obstacle course.
  Nascar has some really crazy shit, like building a twisted car to turn left, canting the engines to perform better in turns, making the car as flat as possible on the right to get better aero when up against the wall. They do some wild stuff with the cars, and stretching the rules or "cheating" was, and probably is, a huge part of the sport.
  When it comes to the racing itself, the track layout is usually designed with top sustained speed in mind, which means that a lot of the driver's finishing position is determined by their ability to battle it out with the other drivers, instead of their ability to optimize the course. Not to mention, that simple "left turn" is deceptively complex. Drivers account for track conditions, like foreign debris, rubber "marbles", bank angle, and temperature, atmospheric conditions like air density, car conditions like damage, fuel, tire wear and tire temp, and race conditions like remaining laps, position and proximity to other drivers, when they make that "simple left". Throw in make-or-break pitstops, where the car gets fuel, tires and repairs in less than 10 seconds, and the fact that almost all of this is happening at 170+ MPH, and you realize that oval racing isn't just a bunch of hilljacks turning left, but a modern gladiator-style chariot race.
- He said a race, not a racing series. Get rid of Abu Dhabi and we're good.

There is only one race.
[writes down "humans" on ballot]
- I mean, in this scenario we've established that there's at least one alien species as well.
  
  But does it have subraces of the species?
  (technically there are no human races in biological terms, by the way, there's not enough difference)
- False. There is also 3-legged.
  
  We're not playing Sons of the Forest over here.
- Is rich a race?

Guess I'm post-racism because my first thought was "mosquitoes".
- Mine was NASCAR
- Fuck yeah Mosquito Genocide crew!
- ...race of mosquitoes?
  
  After some research prompted by your comment I think my French/ignorance might be showing, as the correct word would be species.
- Aren't you fucking enlightened.

Mosquitoes. Definitely those fuckers.

If I had to choose a race to be eliminated to get the alien tech, I'd go with potato sack. Some people might miss it, but I feel like it's time to let that one go.
- I agree. The three legged race is too much of a classic. The feeling of flow state when you and your partner get moving quick is too good. Sack races never feel fun. Just painful.
- Potato sack > 400m, change my view
- Agree 100% I embarrassed myself thoroughly in the sack race as a child and would like all future examples banned.

Human race 💪
- we have a thinker

Yeah I am not voting.
If they were really a benevolent species, they wouldn't play this mind game to begin with.
- They sound Abrahamic as fuck
- This says more about humanity than the aliens.
  
  Well it might make perfect sense from their perspective, there might be a million alien species on the galactic council who all agree they don't want to deal with a species that won't purge at least one race.
  It's unlikely but possible, we have literally no way of knowing or really guessing anything about how an alien race or empire might think. They might be shocked and confused we don't kill our enemies children, bemused that we ended slavery, disgusted that we don't torture criminals for sport...
  An even scarier thought is that we might agree with them in a hundred or thousand years, it seems impossible to imagine but to me it seems impossible to imagine slavery was ever a thing or that they put criminals heads on pikes for everyone to see.
- Wouldn't they?
  Maybe shit like that is the kind of wake up call our species would need to finally get us on the path to a post-race society.
  Maybe they know we need a bit of a nudge and they decided they'd be the one to give it to us.
  
  Look if Covid-19 wasn't an effective enough wake up call, I don't think anything will be.
  Pretty sure this is just going to start off a race war

my answer is the same as bill burr's, people who go on cruises, nothing of value is lost
- This is Finnish genocide

my choice would prob be a 15k. at that point I'll just do a half marathon, thanks.
- how about the Abu Dhabi Tour? A week-long stage race on the least interesting terrain on the planet. The first stage frequently has a finishing straight that's 60k long.

I think they would say, "Ok you all voted for synonyms of human race so lets start the killing"

I would 100% read this book
- I'm wait for the Netflix show
  
  They will release one episode a month to milk your $99 per month introductory rate. The runtime will be 21 minutes with 39 minutes of ads interspersed.
  
  ew

Reminds me of that Black Mirror episode when people could post names of people they wanted to be killed and every day the most posted person were killed. After some time, the man behind that killed all of the people who voted for anybody.
- So in that killer's mind, wanting someone killed was the morally indefensible crime but actually killing ludicrous numbers of people is not? And he nor anyone else questioned that? 🤔
  
  Bit of context and spoilers - He was making a statement about social media threats/harassment
  The first part - using social media - whoever people vote to be killed, gets killed. Trying to show these actions have consequences. The people voting feel immune to these consequences. They just voted, they didn't kill anybody.
  He goes through 5 rounds of voting, with more votes every time. After each round, the most voted for is killed.
  Up to this point he's exposing people trying to use social media to try and harm people Eventually he turns it around, and kills everyone who voted
  The whole thing kicked off because his friend/romantic interest tried to commit suicide from cyber bullying. He's pushing that these actions have consequences, even if you hide behind a screen.
  The killer himself is a psycho, so the morals aren't exactly impactful to him. As for anyone else questioning, the definitely do.
  Disclaimer - been a while since I watched the episode. It's pretty good, definitely need some suspension of disbelief (but that's most episodes)
  
  Yeah people don't think too deep about TV shows
- ah yes the "I'm covered in bees!" episode.
- Which episode is that? I must've missed it.
  
  the bees episode.
  
  I think it's S03E06 Hated In The Nation
- Name of episode?
  
  I think it's S03E06 Hated In The Nation

Aliens would be really disappointed to find out we already have blue checkmarks invented and people don‘t care nearly enough about it.

I'm concerned about the amount of people in this post that aren't just saying that None is the correct answer, but are instead trying to come up with a race to pick.
- I was once among a group of (fellow) university-educated expats, during a stint living abroad in the 2000s. While we were socializing, somebody asked everyone to say what group of people they would make disappear. (I can't remember if it was kill/erase/nuke/remove from a map that was said, but a couple of variations along those lines.) People's answers that day (and their insistence that I, too, should "jokingly" hate some group of people and want them to die) taught me a lot. On top of that, I also am part of one of the groups that was named (no, I am not mixed race-- it was just ignorance on the guy's part that he not only thought I wasn't part of the group but also that when I made a "joke" of what he said, he thought telling me that I didn't seem like part of that group was supposed to make it better somehow).
- I think the premise of the question means none wouldn't be an option, but yeah, entertaining it is weird.
  
  None is specifically called out as being an option.
  
  It's an option, but if "none" wins then there's no shared knowledge of anything. The question really is, do you prefer to cause genocide but have new tech, or keep old tech with no genocide.

I vote for eliminating the greyhound race
- Ah you mean racing. For a moment I wanted to argue that it's more humane to eradicate pugs due to their miserable health problems.
- Remove "the" and add an s to race to make it clear what you're talking about :)

Half of Africa is going to have "French" tattooed on their foreheads, and they'll be even angrier for having a French symbol part of them.

"uhhhh I would just say none. uhhh I would just say the indie 500."
Really? Not the british? Come on I thought this one would be easy
- the british and french need to be in equilibrium. if the british are suddenly removed, the french will have no natural predators, and begin to breed uncontrollably
  
  shit man as long as it's with me that's probably fine
  
  Picking the British or French would probably be ok. We should be able to get a decent breeding program set up in zoos and start releasing them back into the wild within a couple of decades.
- Just because you don't like crumpets doesn't mean there's a need for genocide
- Yeah-- at worst, folks would say "I don't agree, but I GET where you are coming from"
- According to a DNA test I'm like 2% British, I don't know what those genes control and I'm not gonna risk it.

I vote to be rid of rat race

Can I select all races?
- yeah im gonna have to go with the human race
- Why do i hear rumbling

Everyone who chose to purge the aliens are going to start a goddamn crusade

Chinese would probably vote Japanese
China’s neighbours would for China
Majority white and black would vote for each other
And nothing we didn’t already know would be revealed
Also when an advanced race capable of killing the entire species says “you must” do something then I don’t think it’s racist to vote and I don’t think saying “none” is allowed because it defeats the purpose of the experiment
- You really think the majority wouldn't vote for "none", given it's an option?
  Even if one were to think practically about it (if we all vote none, they won't share the tech or whatever, for the sake of they hypothetical), wouldn't most people just choose a super small ethnic group?
  Like sorry Inuits, hate to say it but y'all shoulda tried imperialism lmao
  
  Based on the way the meme plays off, the only practical way to get the tech would show you value life over technology, hence the option for none, if it's not a consensus for none how could you expect that species to act responsible with the tech and hence the tattooing and leaving.
  
  I’m saying none wasn’t given as an option so it should be assumed to not be
  People have to be aware of the small ethnicity so it’s going to vary by person
  
  Right, that's what I was thinking : just try to pick the smallest race. I'm guessing the majority would try to do the same thing. Obviously you have people who hate other races, but I'm hoping that even if 30% have the same idea, maybe it limits casualties.. unless we're all allowed to Google though, I'm guessing most of us have different guesses as to what the smallest race is
- Neither Chinese nor Japanese are a race. They’re the same race with different nationality
  
  I feel like a lot of us (myself included) would vote for things that aren't races because we don't understand the difference
  
  There are a lot of people that treat it as such but if we tell them all SEA people are the same then I guess they would vote black
- Well, if "none" wins then no one is killed and you get no technology. That's my interpretation at least.
  
  Based on the fact they tattoo your answer afterwards, the only way you would have gotten technology is by voting none in a consensus showing you value life over technology, therefore your more likely to be responsible with it, vote on anything other than none and you have voided your ability to be responsible hence no technology. The fact this is not a more common interpretation is honestly disheartening.

I'd try and convince them that politicians are a race..

This is just the beginning of what could be a great movie.
I don't know what the actual direction the story goes based on this premise, but I wanna see it.
- Honestly I'm surprised that studios have never bothered filming multiple endings and releasing them all into the theater chain so people would basically go see the same movie multiple times just to catch the different endings, and the studio getting more profits.
  
  They did that with the movie Clue, showing different endings at different theaters. At the. Time, it pissed people off, and it got called a cash grab.
  
  Clue (1985) did exactly that
  
  Mostly cost, a lot of movies already run on thin budgets and timelines, extra filming and editing from having multiple endings cuts into that
- You would like the movie Circle (2015)
  
  I did like that movie. I saw it years ago, but every time I tried to describe it to someone I couldn't think of the name. I can't remember how it ended exactly, but I'll probably throw it on when I go to my brother's place.
  We've been catching up with a lot of culture we missed out on due to being stuck in an overly religious household growing up. So we take time each (well most) Sundays to watch something we know Mom would hate. It's therapeutic in a word kind of way.
- The ending could be a great south park episodes.
  
  I wonder what "none, fuck off" gets you?

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As there's only one race, I guess everyone who chose anything but none gets the human race symbol (???) tattoed on their face. Still would be fun to see who chose to have other humans killed.
Now, if the OP in 4chan meant ethnicity, that's a different story.
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- pedanticmode 1
  The definition of “race” varies widely between different demographics and contexts. In a biological context which you seem to be insinuating, “race” is either nonsensical or an ancient synonym for species.
  pedantic mode 0
  
  pedantic_mode 1
  You forgot the underscore in your off-switch.
  pedantic_mode 0
- I legit question why people should be morally condemned for choosing to have others killed. It's too important a survival mechanism to just dismiss with morality like that, and claiming it's wrong violates the human right to freedom of thought. Humans are allowed to hate each other. They're allowed to want negative things, even to have others killed.
  The premise itself is self-defeating because it uses the act of labeling people who make a choice to be targeted for violence and death to defeat the concept of doing so. Its use legitimizes the practice even to criticize it. Humans have to select other people to be targeted for violence because it's ultimately the only effective way to regulate behavior and enforce social norms, and refusing to do so destroys societies.
  People need to stop judging others on their thoughts and feelings and start focusing on their actions.

What if, instead of a tattoo, everyone who voted just becomes that race?
The logistics would be tricky. Aside from the fact that race doesn't exist, people within an ethnicity don't all look the same. And would they still have the background of however they were originally born?
- Just make them look and sound as whatever stereotype they have for that race.
  I'd watch that.
- That reminds me of a discussion with someone who thought Hispanics can't be white, I was like, have you ever seen seen a Spaniard?

Can I write in "mosquitos" for extermination, or is it a multiple choice ballot?
- I would pick ticks first myself. Those guys are assholes.

Products and services that hide/remove that tattoo would skyrocket. Tattoo removal places would probably become super rich.
- I'm willing to bet that the ayylmaos would be smart enough to think of that and make it somehow permanent like nanomachine pigments imbedded in your brain that re-emerges on the skin eventually or smthn

Aliens observing will think this already happened here. The chaos is real presently. I'm checking this off list of things to worry about.
- The ruling class literally has been doing that for centuries..

That might be kind of convenient actually - racist assholes of all colours will label themselves and probably kill eachother while (hopefully) most of the population's foreheads will read "None".
- I don't think this is likely unless if none is the most voted option none gets killed. But if one always gets killed then there will be lots of campaigning and manipulating for certain votes. And the past years have shown people will fall for it.

The result would be a genocide, but this time you can identify the jews by not having a star of david anywhere on their body.

that is kind of what is happening anyways. At best the aliens just provided an intermission.

I vote to get rid of the Indy 500!

Sounds like a twilight zone episode

Immediately though of one of those races of dog or cow that's been inbred to the point that their existence is torture already. I didn't think of humans.

Lizard people. I know they don't exist, you knows they don't exist and anyone who thinks they exist will not view me as their enemy.
- And even if they exist but hide, the aliens will purge them if we vote for them, so we can get rid of them preemptively. It's a win-win!
  
  See? Even you are my ally!

Interesting!
Could be a fun read if it became a book!

4channer aliens
- They're really into anal probing.

The mosquito race.
Or Daytona 500.

I have read twice to understand how humans are supposed to know alien species and why that's important

What was the symbol used for "none"?
- I guess you don't get any symbol and are now considered as the morally superior group, which will then use it to gain power and proceed to oppress the others.
  
  I'd reckon it'd go the other way as they'd probably be in the minority.
  
  I guess you don’t get any symbol and are now considered as the morally superior group, which will then use it to gain power and proceed to oppress the others.
  Either that, or everyone with symbols would work together and gang up on you for not having a symbol.
  
  Because they hate evey other race so they couldn't decide before time was up.

Formula E is the best choice imo.

I wonder what a street race symbol would look like
- "FAMILY"

A new minority (hopefully a minority)

If I pick white do I get a swastika on my face?

Velvet hippo lovers not gonna like me.

Think of some weird african race that only has 500 members or something
- Village tribe ≠ race I guess but whatever
  
  Yes they are considered difference ethnicities

No offense to chinease people, but I would say them, because their economy could starve everybody else.
- If you're worried about Chinese economy damaging your own, just stop trading with China.
  Oh wait, your economy depends on ~~forced~~ cheap labour
  
  No problem, India has more ~~slaves~~ people already anyway.
  
  Sweatshops are unironically a good thing for developing nations, it helped develop China and soon with Southeast Asia.

I blocked the 4chan assholes multiple times yet they still make it to my feed
Edit: maybe you downvoters can explain what there is about 4chan to not-hate?
- Hey I'll downvotes you too and explain a little.
  First of all, not helpful to any conversation. You just want to announce to everyone your personal issues. Cool. No one cared. Downvotes.
  Secondly. There is plenty to hate about 4chan but why curated snippets? It's an old school anonymous forum that is chaos trapped in a site. In all of that is occasionally interesting discussions, art, and insightful looks at the human condition. And racism and horribleness.
  It's Like saying you hate corn so you don't drink any juice, don't use gasoline, don't drink vodka or whiskey. It's a lot of things, but here someone has curated a snippet of the chaos they found interesting. It no longer is 4chan but just a piece of something.
  If you don't like this idea then sure whatever but it's no more 4chan than this is a text to you.
  This is a conversation starter.
  
  Nah, it's still a part of 4chan whether you think it's interesting or not.
  
  No, it's just 4chan. If it was ever published to 4chan, it is forever associated with the worst part of humanity. Full stop.
  You like that. Cool.
  I say fuck that.
  Also your analogy is shit.
- William Lashua's Birthday
  
  Fair enough, but 2010 was a long time ago