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With the news stating an estimated 36 alien races within our own galaxy, I fear we're unfairly depicting aliens in a racist manner; namely by 'greening-up'. They may in fact be blue. The UFO/aliens museum in Roswell, New Mexico, features countless grotesque green humanoids, which I believe need tearing down.

I thus wish to initiate a social media frenzy, stirring the furloughed masses towards global eradication of these hideous racist portrayals. 

As a true snowflake of my generation, a propose immediate removal of Star Wars, Star Trek, Futurama, etc, from the digital cosmos. I acknowledge actors who have performed in such foul screenplay should be publicly vindicated for greening-up. Chewbacca, albeit not green, perhaps most easily offends me. 

I shall initiate my cleansing of the past by first tearing down Yoda Fountain, San Francisco. 

You’re already jumping to assumptions here, for example that the aliens exist on a physical scale where colour is meaningful. This is one of the reasons I distrust the study so much, it doesn’t even try to imagine what else is possible.

In a book I once read, the chances of the correct chain of chemical reactions that lead from single cell organisms to Homosapiens has the same chance of happening, (elsewhere i.e on another planet) - as if you placed every single part of an F16 fighter jet in the path of a tornado, and that tornado assembling the Fighter jet, perfectly...

Get enough tornados and enough dismantled fighter jets though....

What about the film 'Mars Attacks' ?!?!??

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It's not racism, it would be speciesism, if such a word exists

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Aren't they grey? In all the popular culture, mythology etc, known as greys? 

Have you ever read a book called Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon? If not - it's an absolute classic of exploring this question. It is (to date) the fiction book that blew my mind the most.

Right, and why stop there?

*All literature of all kinds has to go. Destroy it

*All books of all kinds have to go. Burn them

*All art of all kinds has to go. Burn it

Why stop now? Let's do a proper job while we're at it

PS My post is not directed at you, Dave, but at others

Well of course it would. We are a product of our environment. Change the environment and you’d get a different product. 

The accepted term nowadays is 'creatures of grey'.

My post is satirical, for anyone who didn't pick up on that!

I neglected to add ET and Shrek to the list of movies I'd ban. Shrek might not be an alien, but he's green, so he's got to go!

GLM. Green Lives Matter.

The movie Avatar beautifully champions inter-galactic racial diversity. 

If the word doesn't exist the behaviour and attitude definitely does: just read any UKC thread where the subject of non-native species is raised. Culling and eradication are seen as perfectly acceptable in some cases.

How do we deal with aliens if they happen (god forbid) to be white?

Start off by explaining their privilege.

just look up... erm check out... erm  anyway google Gamora and be nice to the green ones

That book probably was creationist propaganda.

Actually, that book DEFINITELY was creationist propaganda.

CB

The ideas about what kind of life are possible are, for me, one of the best things about the Culture novels. Unfortunately, most of the weird life forms do not play a major role for the plots, but nevertheless.

CB

The movie Avatar is a shit rip off of a Soviet sci fi story. Nice 3D effects for the time, but USB ponytails, FFS?

CB

Stephen Baxter is very good at that, and he often has very strange life forms as protagonists in stories of their own.

I think it was Kurt Vonnegut who remarked that his advice to any aliens meeting the human race for the first time was to run as fast as you can in the opposite direction.

It's due to apologists like you that I'm forced to go down on one tentacle.

Tell them to watch the current Friday Night Video

I read the first one (Horza was the protagonist), but really didn’t enjoy it. Do they get much better?

It is the first, chronologically and publicationwise, but IMO makes more sense when read later. I enjoyed use of Weapons and Excession more, but clearly the whole series is love it or hate it.

CB