The PC and Perpetually Offended Brigade

[stearl]

Here chomp on something light-heartedly ludicrous instead:
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/05/11/irish-womens-obsession-with-fake-tan-is-problematic/

"To me, fake tan represents more than just an innocuous cosmetic choice; it raises questions of cultural appropriation and fetishisation of the high melanin content found in more pigmented people."

Surely it's satire?

[Caomhaoin]

I fear it isn't, not these days.

[stearl]

I fear it isn't, not these days.

Too true.  


If one wanted to be really shrill, could it be argued that fake tan is another variation on blackface? Might keep that in my notes for when my daughter is a teenager

[Caomhaoin]

Or if black women get their afros changed. The Chinese boys might have a case for 'cultural appropriation'

[astfgyl]

Here chomp on something light-heartedly ludicrous instead:
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/05/11/irish-womens-obsession-with-fake-tan-is-problematic/

Saw that on Twitter. Cultural appropriation no less!     

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Here chomp on something light-heartedly ludicrous instead:
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/05/11/irish-womens-obsession-with-fake-tan-is-problematic/

"To me, fake tan represents more than just an innocuous cosmetic choice; it raises questions of cultural appropriation and fetishisation of the high melanin content found in more pigmented people."

Surely it's satire?

Perhaps a hoax satire, as it turns out:

The text of this article has been removed pending checks.

[stearl]

Here chomp on something light-heartedly ludicrous instead:
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/05/11/irish-womens-obsession-with-fake-tan-is-problematic/

"To me, fake tan represents more than just an innocuous cosmetic choice; it raises questions of cultural appropriation and fetishisation of the high melanin content found in more pigmented people."

Surely it's satire?

Perhaps a hoax satire, as it turns out:

The text of this article has been removed pending checks.

Ha.

It made Newstalk radio this afternoon. They had a caller who described himself as extremely liberal (it wasn't you was it?  ), and even he suggested the article went too far and fed into the hands of the so called far-right/culture wars etc. in undermining progressive/liberal causes.

Would be gas if it was gaslighting.

[Mower Liberation Front]

Here chomp on something light-heartedly ludicrous instead:
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/05/11/irish-womens-obsession-with-fake-tan-is-problematic/

Well done to the Irish Times, they actually managed to find someone who refers to themselves as Latinx, though I suppose the blue hair made their search easier. 

Edit: It's now been removed, because her picture appears to have been an AI creation. Beginning to look like someone played a joke on the Irish Times.

[hellfire]

There's going to be world war three on Pearse Street in less than 15 minutes. I wish I could blame the sub communist scum who will be partaking, but the right are just as bad in this case.

[Caomhaoin]

'Fetishisation of the high melanin content found in more pigmented people'

That's such a ridiculous thing to say, by any standard but there is so much similar drivel around that it's impossible to see the wood from the trees when it comes to these progressive talking points.

[hellfire]

Who'd be a Garda Video of demonstration

[stearl]

Here chomp on something light-heartedly ludicrous instead:
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/05/11/irish-womens-obsession-with-fake-tan-is-problematic/

Well done to the Irish Times, they actually managed to find someone who refers to themselves as Latinx, though I suppose the blue hair made their search easier. 

Edit: It's now been removed, because her picture appears to have been an AI creation. Beginning to look like someone played a joke on the Irish Times.

Indeed. The paper of record may need to brush up on their corroboration skills.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/irish-times-removes-article-suggesting-fake-tan-is-racist-amid-suggestion-it-was-ai-generated/a289268428.html

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

And today, in the IT, Fintan O'Toole has an article about AI bullshit 
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/05/13/fintan-otoole-bullshit-is-all-around-us-we-expect-to-hear-it-every-time-we-watch-or-listen-to-the-news/

(I haven't read beyond the header as it's behind the paywall.)

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

The hoax has been claimed at the source, although the real identity of the source is still unknown:
https://twitter.com/ecuadorian_adri/status/1657077563636740096

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

There's going to be world war three on Pearse Street in less than 15 minutes. I wish I could blame the sub communist scum who will be partaking, but the right are just as bad in this case.

"just as bad"
https://www.thejournal.ie/garda-protest-tents-sandwith-street-6066908-May2023/