We should be called peaches or flamingos or some shit lmao what even is up with skin colour names this shit is so dumb.

    • CloutAtlas [he/him]
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      5 days ago

      You merely adopted badposting. Owl was hatched in it. Molded by it. They didn't see an effort post until they were a grown bird, by then it was already blinding.

  • HiImThomasPynchon [des/pair, it/its]
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    5 days ago

    Skin tones are weird. When you paint skin tones, yeah you can go pink/brown/yellow or whatever, but real skin tones have mixes of shit you'd never expect, like blue and green. Also your skin isn't the same color around your whole body.

    Imagine your whole body was covered lip skin except your nipples, which are made of the skin from the soles of your feet.

    • NotLuigi [they/them]
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      5 days ago

      Imagine your whole body was covered lip skin

      James Acaster has entered the building

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    5 days ago

    Because racism is wackadoo and based on wrinkly gibberish

    You ever see a 17th century white guy?

    Scared of bathing, put cinnamon and cloves in everything, thinks a lady will disintegrate if she moves faster than 2 mph

    • HiImThomasPynchon [des/pair, it/its]
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      5 days ago

      thinks a lady will disintegrate if she moves faster than 2 mph

      This is true, tho. If she can move faster than 2 mph without bursting into flames, she's no lady, she's a harlot and a Jezebel.

    • Speaker [e/em/eir]
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      5 days ago

      Scared of bathing, put cinnamon and cloves in everything, thinks a lady will disintegrate if she moves faster than 2 mph

      He just like me fr

      • blight [he/him]
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        5 days ago

        corsets do be causing severe health problems tho, i wouldn’t be surprised if they fell over if they tried to run

  • Infamousblt [any]
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    5 days ago

    Imagine calling me mayo when you should be calling me cheese rind smdh

  • culpritus [any]
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    5 days ago

    In Star Trek the green Orions called humans 'pink skins' for a while. White people were the real pinkos the whole time.

  • Owl [he/him]
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    5 days ago

    Sure people are actually shades of brown pink and beige, but white is associated with purity and goodness and black is associated with shadow and evil, and the people who decided to classify everyone by a color system in the first place were racists.

  • merthyr1831@lemmy.ml
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    5 days ago

    iirc it's based on 1600's scientific racism where different amounts of bile changed your skin tone, and Europeans were coincidentally the most balanced with their bile which made them superior, and said mixture of bile was considered "white"

  • sourquincelog [he/him]
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    5 days ago

    Answer I'm not going to source but feels right from a US history perspective (which I taught you a decade): whiteness as a concept was defined specifically in relation and distance to the concept of Blackness. You had anglos and teutons and celts and slavs etc etc who didn't see themselves as uniformly white until the use of black slaves tied freedom to whiteness and servitude to Blackness. Why they didn't call it pink instead? Idk

    • blame [they/them]
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      5 days ago

      yea was gonna say, pink is more of a ukkk on vacation holiday thing. Normally it's like a very light brown.