We'll have both types of racism.
Yes, for the same reasons, we have any specific group bound by any superficial similarities, and equating that to being the same or for the same cause or caring about the same issues. However I think for the most should Human's meet other intelligent life, most of what we imagine will seem upside down and on it's head.
Racism, is purely fucking stupid concept, that like most things we fail to progress past.
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More likely, it would be the other way around. People would worship them as gods, since that's essentially what they would be to us.
"Quack, quack, Mr. Bond."
Nope. If there was a war with alien civilization, then humans could probably set aside their differences and focus on defeating enemy. But otherwise, nothing will really change. Why would encountering alien race make someone who consider blacks as subhumans to change his mind? I don't see a reason.
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Of course not. How else would there be TvT in starcraft?
-"Fear The Alien. Hate The Alien. Kill The Alien."
Why do we fight?
-To protect the Imperium and deliver mankind from the evil of the xenos, the mutant and the heretic!
What is the xenos?
-A blight to be purged!
Those who seek to ingratiate themselves with Xenos are traitors to the Imperium of Mankind.
Evangelicals trying to convert them to Christianity is actually not the worst reaction possible. I have read a evangelical blog talking about aliens a few years ago. The conclusion was: If aliens really exists they must all be irredeemably evil since Jesus was only sent to Earth.
I do think we'd probably replace our racism with racism towards aliens. Some people always need an "other" to blame all the problems on. The Irish were it at one point, and Italians. But that's been let go of.
While you live, shine / Have no grief at all / Life exists only for a short while / And time demands its toll.
Human reactions to alien contact.
If they are good aliens we should EXTERMINATUS them.
If they are bad aliens we should EXTERMINATUS them.
Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi