(June 29, 2020 at 5:36 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: I am listening to NPR and they are doing a segment on skin lightening creams - and how these products are racist.. .
Really?
What about sunscreen? This keeps you from tanning as much so consequently it acts as an anti darkening agent......
And what about spray tans - and tanning lotions? Aren't they also products to change skin color? Seems like that should be racist too...
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And - is anyone being forced to use these? That I could see as a real problem. When it is voluntary - I don't see a problem. Sorta like tattoos... You like that? Go for it.
It makes no difference to me.
I'll think you wasted your money.
I found a couple of print NPR articles related to this (can’t be sure it’s exactly the same story, though) and it seems as if two companies are voluntarily either renaming or removing these products, mostly because their marketing has taken the view that ‘white skin is beautiful skin’.
While the product and the use of it certainly isn’t racist, the marketing appears to be so.
Boru
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