I live life by recognising three things we all share in common…
- We had no say in being born
- We had no say in what vessel we’d get to live in
- We had no say in the conditions we’d be born into
Anyone that can’t acknowledge this has long since been able to acknowledge themselves. They are so lost that they will never find happiness.
On the night she died, Kishandas had brought a plastic bottle with a brown liquid - he said it was a medicine to make her skin fairer.
According to the statements, he applied the liquid to her body and when she complained that it smelled like acid, he set her on fire with an incense stick. When her body started burning, he poured the rest of the liquid on her and ran away.
Kishandas’s parents and sister took her to hospital where she later died.
WTF is the obsession with being light skinned. Even Vietnamese people are like this.
Two reasons:
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Internalised oppression. Because of European colonisation, white skin has been equated to beauty and higher status in former colonies.
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However, even before European colonisation, fairer skin has always been seen as a status symbol. Fairer skin means someone wealthy enough not to work outside being exposed to the sun.
It is not one or the other explanation by the way, these two coalesced. But in some countries that were never colonised by Europeans, the answer for obsession with lighter skin is number 2.
Edit: I should also mention, Europeans used to be obsessed with light skin for the precise reason as number 2. European nobility powdered themselves white. The obsession with getting tanned only came much more recently, because getting tanned implies one can afford holidays and thus a sign of status symbol, at least in Europe.
I thought people valued hard work, why would they idolize a symbol of being lazy?
I think the obsession with hard work only came much more recently in history. I’d say we can blame the North European Protestant work ethic for that one.
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In India, skin color may also have to do with caste level.
Right? I am pale as snow and man I envy people who can just throw on shorts and walk outside without concern because I am an absolute reflective hazard. I could blind someone!
Grass is always greener, I guess…
Death penalty is too lenient for this scumbag.
I skim read the article but I tried to look if the marriage is arranged although it did not mention it. Because I am thinking, if the man is not even attracted to the wife, why marry her? It is likely that their marriage was arranged.
Most marriages in India are heavily arranged. Misogynism is so horribly entrenched, what with reportages of abuses and death levied against women.
JD Vance: “Well there goes my exit strategy…”
I live in racist country #1. Both of them would be considered brown and be treated differently. I’m brown. Nobody needs this, only the stupid among us would think they are superior because their skin makes less vitamin D so they have to take supplements if they want to live north or they can only be outside for 10 minutes each day if they want to live south…or get a sunburn and get called redneck for that. People we gotta get over this shit if we want to survive the billionaires. Let’s eat the rich instead?
only the stupid among us would think they are superior because their skin makes less vitamin D so they have to take supplements if they want to live north or they can only be outside for 10 minutes each day if they want to live south…or get a sunburn and get called redneck for that.
Is this referring to white skin or darker skin? i get your message im just confused by the example.
White skin…like how did they end up taking over a country where there’s not enough sun on the north half for half the year and in the south there’s way too much sun. I probably gave it wrong maybe white skin makes it easier for them to get vitamin D on the northern latitudes? Me I’m brown and need crazy vitamin D if I don’t take enough accidentally.
Yeah that was what confused me. White skin is more efficient at getting vitamin D so I thought you were talking about black extremists then you mentioned rednecks and I got confused.
Someone this evil should die the same way they killed.
I’ don’t condone torture, but in this case, my protest would probably accidentally arrive too late.
Tolerance towards intolerance feeds intolerance.Paradox of tolerance:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_toleranceStrike 13 you’re out this time buddy
Even lingchi would be too good for him.
Dunno - that seems like it could be made to last a lot longer than incineration, unless you saved him from the fire but made him live with the burns. Of course your suggestion has its own possibilities like pouring salt or alcohol into the fresh open wounds.
Anyway, that’s enough for me. Can’t believe I even just said that stuff because I’m not normally an eye-for-an-eye person - this crime just disgusted me that much.
Goodnight.
This is sad
