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This is just RTD being RTD, and I should ignore it. But it sent me on a wikipedia rabbit hole,

If we're being pendantic that wouldn't be "racist", it would be "speciesist",as race in biology refers to subspecies differences, not species-level, which is what the aqua/sapiens distinction means.

Also, if we're being inclusive implying that homo aqua are not "sapient", i.e. intelligent, seems about as insulting as calling them devils.

Totally unrelated, but I learned that from the latin genus name, you can refer to the chimpanzee tribe as "Panini", which is fun.

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Homo Aqua?!? How can they be Homo anything? They’re not even fucking mammals!

They're related to the Silurians, aka homo reptilia, so I would suggest that ship sailed quite some time ago.

[–] Lembot_0005@lemy.lol 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He's very obviously being cheeky...

Yeah but my tolerance for cheeky went way down when Wizards got rid of half elves and half orcs.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago

I have no problem with them existing but I wouldn't let my daughter marry one that's for sure