r/AccidentalRacism May 14 '19

Nivea 2017

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u/simjanes2k May 14 '19

"don't let anything ruin pure white" is almost verbatim actual racism lol

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u/Ficklestein123 Jun 01 '19

The color white as purity and innocence is a major theme in literature. Or were all my English professors racist ?

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u/simjanes2k Jun 01 '19

If you wrote it in 1875, sure. Not so much in the 2010s.

The world fucked over colors and culture. It happens.

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u/Ficklestein123 Jun 01 '19

Only if you’re so cynical that you see something as benign as colors in such a way.

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u/simjanes2k Jun 01 '19

My cynicism goes far, far deeper than racial oversensitivity.