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>You guys are probably just echoing the debates on caste issues which have busied Alternian academics for centuries.

>If the scale is cyclical, then the lowest is really also highest, right? That sort of talk is probably heresy to their contemporary civilization. But that basic idea is surely the seed for the big Alternian civil rights movement (that unfortunately won't get to happen due to armageddon). They're all one big circle. A big pop flyin' family. Then everybody hate-hugs.

>Understanding Karkat's place on the scale is pretty simple. First, regardless of "how red" he is, he's red and red = bad unequivocally. Blue bloods don't care that the worst blood is only one pixel away from the best. This is the nature of racism. It's irrational.

>But even if that weren't the case, and his color was different entirely, like black... What do we know about caste systems on Earth? They're basically constructions of prejudice. The higher-ups are not ones to welcome people who aren't exactly like them into the fold, pretty much by definition. In a caste system, if you're low on the totem pole, you're dirt. If you're off the pole completely, you're still dirt.

uncoordinatedVulpsis, y'all.

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