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When white people tan is it a form of "black face"?

And how did it happen anyway that what random people post on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram has become important enough to bring to a discussion site?

We are also random people posting on a social media forum. :shrug:
 
The reason white people tan themselves is because, at least in my day...it was thought to look healthy, and also a bit sexy.

I don't think equating this to black face has any basis in reality.

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Not sure that's been proven for tanning lotions, though.

I was being sarcastic with a small bit of truth. This entire conversation seems absurd to me. As do almost all conversations about skin color. The exception, dark skinned people being warned they too can get sunburn and suffer skin cancer later in life as a result. Tanning lotions encourage people to sit or lie in the sunlight, not a healthy option. While sunlight helps us manufacture vitamin D and other nutrients, like all actions in excess, not beneficial. What is excessive? To be determined.
 
We are also random people posting on a social media forum. :shrug:

Yeah, but does anyone bring quotes from here to Twitter and make them topics? Wouldn't that be a little weird?
 
And how did it happen anyway that what random people post on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram has become important enough to bring to a discussion site?

Just every so often there is a makeup/fashion thread. You can always choose not to participate.
 
And how did it happen anyway that what random people post on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram has become important enough to bring to a discussion site?

This is evidence itself the site doesn’t always discuss things that are actually important
 
I was being sarcastic with a small bit of truth. This entire conversation seems absurd to me. As do almost all conversations about skin color. The exception, dark skinned people being warned they too can get sunburn and suffer skin cancer later in life as a result. Tanning lotions encourage people to sit or lie in the sunlight, not a healthy option. While sunlight helps us manufacture vitamin D and other nutrients, like all actions in excess, not beneficial. What is excessive? To be determined.

By tanning lotions, I meant lotions that tan you without the sun.
 
Yeah, but does anyone bring quotes from here to Twitter and make them topics? Wouldn't that be a little weird?

I don't know. Doesn't really matter since everyone here takes things from outside of DP to discuss. No one just discusses things said or reported here.
 
This is evidence itself the site doesn’t always discuss things that are actually important

"things that are actually important" is subjective. If you don't think it's important or interesting, you don't have to participate in the discussion. :shrug:
 
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The reason white people tan themselves is because, at least in my day...it was thought to look healthy, and also a bit sexy.

I don't think equating this to black face has any basis in reality.

This was the work of a single makeup artist involving the use of heavy makeup that is many shades darker than the model’s natural skin tone and contacts to change their eye color from blue to brown. I can see why it was interpreted as a form of black face.
 
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By tanning lotions, I meant lotions that tan you without the sun.

Those aren't tanning lotions, no matter the advertising. They are chemical lotions for coloring skin. Some with dyes, others having compounds that interact with melatonin, or both. Better to go natural accepting ourselves for who we are.
 
And how did it happen anyway that what random people post on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram has become important enough to bring to a discussion site?

Just every so often there is a makeup/fashion thread. You can always choose not to participate.

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How blatantly dishonest.







You know perfectly well this isn't a "makeup/fashion thread", but is instead a transparently hamfisted attempt to jeer at people who take issue with white people putting on actual blackface.
 
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How blatantly dishonest.

You know perfectly well this isn't a "makeup/fashion thread", but is instead a transparently hamfisted attempt to jeer at people who take issue with white people putting on actual blackface.

No, I actually don't know that. I wasn't aware that there was any controversy, I do think that cultural appropriation, for good or ill, is a thing, and I found the transformations shared in the OP just gorgeous.
 
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How blatantly dishonest.
You know perfectly well this isn't a "makeup/fashion thread", but is instead a transparently hamfisted attempt to jeer at people who take issue with white people putting on actual blackface.

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Their is a certain irony here.

In asian culture the whiter a persons skin colour is the more higher status they have. The basis of this is that the rich and upper classes do not have to toil in the sun for a living. While the poor do labour in the sun and their skin becomes tanned. So if you want to appear better off than your neighbor then stay out of the sun and get a white skin.
 
Hey look! It's Josie, flying over the top of a shark.
 
That's how I see it. If you're darkening it because you believe darker skin is more beautiful, I don't see that as racist. Blackface was when people would darken their skin to poke fun at black people, not because they thought it made them more attractive.

However, in my opinion, most of these women look much better as their natural self. I was watching one famous beauty youtuber the other day and she was talking about the outfit she had on. Her shirt was a little short and she said to pay no attention to her pale stomach -- she only self-tans her chest, arms and legs in the winter time. How ridiculous she must look naked.

Truthfully, I've always admired people with darker skin tones, particularly carmel and olive hues. Then again, I'm as pasty white as a snowball and have always thought myself as blonde, bland and unattractive. Even when I was a young woman with a fairly nice figure, I never wore bikinis because I was sure the sun's reflection bouncing off my bleached-out body would blind everyone in the area, lol.
 
Not sure if it's still a thing, but not long ago Asians were bleaching their skin to be more "white", and having surgery on their eyes to have more "western" appearing eyes.

I know, but can't understand it; Asians as a race comprise some of the most beautiful people on the planet. Why mess with that??
 
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How blatantly dishonest.







You know perfectly well this isn't a "makeup/fashion thread", but is instead a transparently hamfisted attempt to jeer at people who take issue with white people putting on actual blackface.

I may just be naive, lol, but I didn't take it that way... and I'm actually not into most makeup/beauty product discussions at all. For some reason, I found this topic caught my interest. :)
 
Truthfully, I've always admired people with darker skin tones, particularly carmel and olive hues. Then again, I'm as pasty white as a snowball and have always thought myself as blonde, bland and unattractive. Even when I was a young woman with a fairly nice figure, I never wore bikinis because I was sure the sun's reflection bouncing off my bleached-out body would blind everyone in the area, lol.

So many people are not happy they way they are... even when they are wonderful in the eyes of other people.
 
Isn't it amazing how some progressives will deny the existence of common, widespread, easily verified leftist phenomenon? The left's increasingly radical "cancel culture" is playing out regularly on college campuses, mainstream "news" media anchor desks and the pages of print media. Practically every day there's new examples of "progressive" activists, journalists and politicians digging up someone's old social media comments, that don't strictly adhere to modern leftist 'sensibilities'.

Then they WIDELY spread the "horrible words" made by someone in a social media post long ago. They twist and spin the narrative, exaggerating the "speech-crime". Then they rile up the progressive base, who Immediately DEMAND that the perpetrator's life be ruined, fired from their job, kicked out of school, demonized on social media, thrown out of their apartments, and symbolically tarred and feathered in a VERY public way! The whole thing is an insidious political intimidation strategy, designed to shut down public discourse and dissent against their ideology. .

Or for simply using a word that activists have recently deemed unacceptable! The notion of "cultural appropriation" is one of many examples, where they write articles, and have roundtable discussions on the "evil" of allowing your white kid to dress in a friggin Black Panther Halloween costume!

Here's a video from CBS, which touches on this. It's one of many videos on leftist cancel culture:


You forget when the right wing canceled the Ground Zero Mosque, Kaepernick’s career, the Dixie Chix, etc
 
It could have been, sigh. I guess you've learned your lesson. We're down to "right-wing" and "beauty blog" in the same sentence. Good grief. :doh

It is covered by the right wing like The Blaze
 
Just every so often there is a makeup/fashion thread. You can always choose not to participate.

Agreed. Tattoos being the latest. In my day it was long hair and bell bottom pants. Nothing that requires laser removal.
 
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