Cut the monochrome

and that means… a lot of things

a lot of bad things 

donations to transitioned reds, donations to red history museums, other preservation efforts, and memorial projects, red businesses that can be patroned, a link to a different article about talking to relatives and friends and responding to casual bigotry, etc.

Also links to forums etc that are good for new people.]

You're not the first to go through this, and this is a happier time to do it than most have been.

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And absolutely no dying!!!

Orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, and grey, 

All work as one to visit stars someday!

Yellow, purple, grey, green, orange, and blue,

If you all do your part then you can visit too!

…Don’t take this as pointed at you personally, take this as the self-defensive whine of a cleaned person who has to work with children’s media.  

So, here’s an extra verse for everyred!

But, the six won’t be alone as they are heading past the moons!

Given that we’re going to space, it is likely enough we’re going to meet aliens. I presume everyone can agree that we would all prefer this was a peaceful meeting that left everyone feeling like we can come to a further peaceful agreement. We already have enough working against us - space is big, but ultimately we’re all after the same space, and as history testifies that gets very bloody very fast even when everyone involved is the same species and knows each other.

If we come to the aliens with a record of ‘we let people commit and get away with mass murder’ this does not do good things for our chances. Think about it - if you were meeting a new person and trying to make a deal with them, would you feel good about it if you learned that they’d recently murdered one of their tenants and suffered no consequences for it?

And sure you can say ‘but reds!’ - but whatever your theological opinions, the aliens won’t be living in our history. Reds look like other Amentans, talk like other Amentans, can pass for other Amentans on the internet, have been having their radio signals end up in space with everyone’s, have been present and a rather vital part of Amentan civilization for centuries. We don’t know enough about what the aliens are like. What if they had a pollution disaster they had to clean up from? Probably their pollution standards are different from ours. 'They’ll go right ahead and slaughter us all, as long as they can tell themselves we were polluted first’ is not a trust- or peace-inspiring thought!

And while I feel for the people of Oyand and Orvara and so on, 'well these people did commit mass murder and don’t think they did anything wrong, but it’s in the past now!’ is also not a trust-inspiring position!

'We do not commit mass murder, period, and anyone who committed mass murder has been sanctioned and not permitted to be present’ is the position that can inspire trust. It’s the position we need to be able to go in with.

The incentive is, I assume, meant to ensure that tragedies like in Oyand and Rivik do not happen again. This is a good thing.

Once every country has transitioned, and there is no chance for such atrocities, Anitam might release the information to us. Or someone else might. Or we might get taken over by some country that has that information. I’m sure the citizens of Oyand will have a place in the stars at some point. When that is, I don’t know, but we will. And waiting to get there will save lives.

So, this is unarguable ~proof~ that some degree of caste flexibility is the correct policy! Because without it, he could never have reached the stars!