Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-6078851-20150114163201/@comment-6078851-20150127174441

i was going to point that emps wasn't/isn't caucasian. the fact that he wasn't white sort of nullifies my idea that he's a white supremecist (or maybe he was and he went the michael jackson route and surgically whited up :P) i think there's definite merit to the idea that emps may have attempted a world-wide breeding program in order to merge the separate varieties of humans, but if that was the case then when humans initially left earth to start colonising our species ought to have all been varying shades of brown in terms skin colour. maybe that did happen and as thousands of years passed skin clour altered to fit the world: so on worlds with little uv penetration white gets back into the gene code.

and being white has/had absolutely nothing to do with creating great or lasting civilisations. as neithan mentions it has to do with culture, availability of mineral or food resources, free time in which to study, population density etc. another important factor is the development of technologies: gunpowder was created by asians, but was ultimately used for projectile weaponry by westerners. however, if such weaponry first got developed by africans or asians then the world would be very different. but as old asian and african cultures were so densly populated, weren't as concerned about national education and more about ruling with an iron fist, had problems with revolution and rebellion, and especially for africa a disproportionate ratio of people to food. in comparison western civilisation, specifically britain back in the day, just happened to have invented a few technologies that gave them an insurmountable advantage (and with the advantage of projectile weaponry britain was more than happy to 'demonstrate' such technology on less tech-developed nations), which was a result of a nationally united and educating culture, no issues with over population or starvation, exceptionally few revolutions or rebellions, and lived in a place that provided almost zero hazards in terms of natural selection, besides the occasionally harsh winter or summer :) none of these things has to do with skin colour but is about culture, resources and geographical location.

as for whites surviving through disease or plague, again that's nothing to do with skin colour. with fewer numbers whites had better distribution of medicines, and with fewer numbers it's far easier to isolate and sanitise.

as a result of the success of white back-in-the-day britain, it helped foster the idea that whites were superior and birthed the term 'ethnic minority', however this is actually a cultural term and not an ethnic one - in terms of ethnic numbers there is only one minority - white :)

for the record, i'm white, born and raised in a very white area (maybe 98+% white), and literally do not understand how anyone can entertain the concept that skin colour somehow bestows superiority. i believe that the majority of people who love alien-heavy sci-fi must feel similar - otherwise they wouldn't love alien-heavy sci-fi :P

didn't think i'd have to do this though... could we get back on-topic? :P  emps being a white supremecist was mostly a joke (nullified since he's turkish), and while race definitely is a topic for 40k i'd rather we didn't get too mired in real-world fu**ed-up notions of supriority :)