Is Endorsing Fairness Products Wrong? - Page 2

What a thread!

Of course, it's wrong.

Drinking Coke is a choice. The color of your skin isn't.

Most Indians are obsessed with fair skin and Caucasians. In such an environment, these celebs are teaching people that being dark skinned is a problem. It's not.

I've seen many Indians worship white folks, and some who strictly date only whites. You can't fight stupidity, but you can ensure that the younger lot today don't suffer from the same prejudices.

The basic message of these endorsements is White > All. The lord and saviour of these white supremacists wasn't white.

Food for thought.

Originally posted by: SaayaOfKaaya

What a thread!

Of course, it's wrong.

Drinking Coke is a choice. The color of your skin isn't.

Most Indians are obsessed with fair skin and Caucasians. In such an environment, these celebs are teaching people that being dark skinned is a problem. It's not.

I've seen many Indians worship white folks, and some who strictly date only whites. You can't fight stupidity, but you can ensure that the younger lot today don't suffer from the same prejudices.

The basic message of these endorsements is White > All. The lord and saviour of these white supremacists wasn't white.

Food for thought.

Hating another person for skin color is one thing. Thats pure racism

But if you dislike yourself for it and want to change is it racism ? Its not like your harassing other people ? Your just changing yourself

Originally posted by: SaayaOfKaaya

What a thread!

Of course, it's wrong.

Drinking Coke is a choice. The color of your skin isn't.

Most Indians are obsessed with fair skin and Caucasians. In such an environment, these celebs are teaching people that being dark skinned is a problem. It's not.

I've seen many Indians worship white folks, and some who strictly date only whites. You can't fight stupidity, but you can ensure that the younger lot today don't suffer from the same prejudices.

The basic message of these endorsements is White > All. The lord and saviour of these white supremacists wasn't white.

Food for thought.

Drinking coke is a choice yes

But if tomorrow I want to be more fair. What’s the harm in me going to buy lightening products, like Maroon said I’m not harassing anyone or anything?

It’s like some people who want to be darker and get tanned or fake tans ?

Why can’t we have the choice of what we want our color to be? Tomorrow if I wanna rub purple all over my skin why can’t I?

The concept of changing of skin color to get acceptance is a SH!T IDEA.

This obsession with fairer skin tone harm in more ways than one. Speaking from personal experiences, this not really as fair as the other members of my family made life a nightmare for me💔. It takes you years to look at yourself beyond your skin color and the supposed idols presenting that you require to use a certain product that lightens your skin tone to be accepted in a relationship, for a job, for guys to notice you, for family members to be jealous of you when you walk by in a family function doesn't help in any way.

Coke is a drink that damages liver and isn't selling you on the point that drinking this would make you desirable, fairness cream ads promoting acceptance damages a lot more than that.

All advertising is evil. Advertising is designed to make us feel bad. Bad we don’t look a certain way and live a certain way. Ads tell us we could get the great guy/girl and be successful and happy if only we just had fairer skin, shinier hair, a better car, a newer phone, and on and on. While we are looking at those images we are also being told over and over that we are not enough and we don’t have enough so we shouldn’t be happy.

So is a fair girl who gets the guy in a fairness ad really that different than the guy who gets the fair girl cause he offers her a drink in a Coke ad? Sure maybe the coke ad is slightly less direct but the message is the same. Seriously isn’t fair people a pretty standard feature in all ads regardless of what the ad is selling? Fair people preying on your insecurity selling you stuff you don’t need.

Ads suck.

Originally posted by: Shaitan-Haiwan

Drinking coke is a choice yes

But if tomorrow I want to be more fair. What’s the harm in me going to buy lightening products, like Maroon said I’m not harassing anyone or anything?

It’s like some people who want to be darker and get tanned or fake tans ?

Why can’t we have the choice of what we want our color to be? Tomorrow if I wanna rub purple all over my skin why can’t I?

What drives the choice to become fair ??

someone would want to be fair because it is considered more beautiful and acceptable so everyone wants to be fair..

No endorsing a fairness product is not wrong....endorsing by putting down someone else...or by distorting facts....or giving false hopes is wrong...

There is nothing wrong if someone wants a fairer complexion...but don't give them hope that they will turn snow white or land a job or anything that is not going to happen.

Having the desire to be fair is not wrong..if u are not hurting anyone in the process or looking down on someone.

Originally posted by: blue-ice.1

Having the desire to be fair is not wrong..if u are not hurting anyone in the process or looking down on someone.

If people wanna change themselves its their business not some social issue 🤣

Originally posted by: Maroonporsche

If people wanna change themselves its their business not some social issue 🤣

It becomes a social issue because the dark skinned people are looked down upon...in general in desi communities....but then a person who wants to be fairer also has a choice of their own...as long as they don't hurt anyone..they should be able to do it.....but I do understand the POV of the people who are opposing it also.

Most of our bollywood songs refer to pretty girls as ‘gori’...(meaning fair skinned).. no one says kali and pretty.. why? Kaali toh aankhen or baal hote hain.. chehra hamesha gora hona maangte hain..this is why it’s wrong. We humans come in all shades or dark to fair skin. Especially in a country like India where there is such a range, it’s bad to promote one color over the other as desirable.