Is tanning racist? (Mexican, Brown, how much, problems)

[Bettafish]

Tanning has no business in Asia. Actually people spend lots of money on whitening products.

[Sonny3]

Yes and so is getting sunburn.

[mtl1]

Originally Posted by Bettafish

Tanning has no business in Asia. Actually people spend lots of money on whitening products.

That's considered racist in the occupied West. It's good to be darker and bad to be artificially or naturally lighter.

[Dapper Zoom]

I remember seeing Tony Rock (Chris Rock's funnier brother) live a while back. He did a pretty funny bit about this, saying things like when he saw white people tanning he felt like they were mocking him. He went on for a while in this vein, and it was all really funny and done in such a playful and non-confrontational manner.

The crowd was pretty evenly mixed racially, and a good portion of his show was about racial topics and he used all of these (obvious and true) stereotypes about white people and black people. This was about ten years ago so this stuff was still allowed and people still thought it was funny. He might be able to still pull it off today, since he's a black guy. He's got some pretty good stuff online, but I haven't really been able to find most of the material from this particular show.

[The Dark Enlightenment]

Color appropriation!

[The Dark Enlightenment]

Originally Posted by Bettafish

Tanning has no business in Asia. Actually people spend lots of money on whitening products.

There was the Japanese ganguro fad in the '90s with rebel teen girls getting very dark tans.

[SFBayBoomer]

Originally Posted by The Dark Enlightenment

There was the Japanese ganguro fad in the '90s with rebel teen girls getting very dark tans.

That looks like makeup, though, don't you think?

[SFBayBoomer]

I don't like to tan, but we all need a good dose of Vitamin D now, to help us combat COVID-19, so it's important to sit outside long enough to absorb enough sun rays to get that done, unless you have enough Vitamin D supplements to accomplish that.

So we're trying to let the sun hit just our backs and legs (and no sunscreen), for the most part, in addition to using a smaller dose of Vitamin D during the summer than we will in the Winter. We weren't taking enough Vitamin D, according to some medical experts, but now we're paying close attention to doing so.

[Speleothem]

Originally Posted by SFBayBoomer

I don't like to tan, but we all need a good dose of Vitamin D now, to help us combat COVID-19, so it's important to sit outside long enough to absorb enough sun rays to get that done, unless you have enough Vitamin D supplements to accomplish that.

So we're trying to let the sun hit just our backs and legs (and no sunscreen), for the most part, in addition to using a smaller dose of Vitamin D during the summer than we will in the Winter. We weren't taking enough Vitamin D, according to some medical experts, but now we're paying close attention to doing so.

I'm taking about 2600iu of V3 and smoking my first cigar of the day out back nekkid.

[The Dark Enlightenment]

Originally Posted by SFBayBoomer

That looks like makeup, though, don't you think?

Yeah, it was mostly makeup of course.