Should This Cream Be Removed From Holland & Barrett's Shelves?

[anotheoldgit]

/// Jabeer Bhutt, the deputy chief executive of the Race Equality Foundation, has asked Holland & Barrett to remove the cream from its shelves to set an example. ///

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2773240/Health-food-chain-accused-exploiting-racism-charities-selling-9-99-skin-whitening-product.html

[brionon]

And Sun beds to get Brown too ?

[Daffy6543]

No.
If darker skinned people wish to be lighter coloured that is their own choice. Why should they have to put up with someone else telling them it is wrong?

[jourdain2]

Certainly not, many people use it to lighten age-spots and melamine patches. People make their own choices. It's rather patronising and nannying to say that dark-skinned people can't be trusted to make decisions.

[jourdain2]

Sorry, melanin!

[Old_Geezer]

If it is not harmful then it is an individual's choice how they feel and what they wish to do. This sounds like one person's (or group's) opinion trying to be forced on all. These days authorities of all ilks seem to be doing too much of that. Advice is one thing, compulsion (or even nagging) quite another. Folk should learn to mind their own business where appropriate.

Tsk, whatever would Michael Jackson have said ?

[jackthehat]

No, it shouldn't.
If it was specifically targetted at black people that may be a different argument. But there are many reasons why people might want to use it and so it should remain available to them.

[sandyRoe]

Aren't there creams that darken skin? Nothing wrong with one that lightens skin, either.

[Prudie]

No and I think I might go and buy some

[bert_h]

Mr Bhutt is being self-contradictory without realising it. If equality means what it says, then white skin, dark skin, whitened dark skin, and darkened white skin should all be treated equally. He's picked on just one of those as being some kind of no-no. Maybe his job is under threat, and he's suddenly trying to look effective in it?

[Old_Geezer]

Good point, well spotted.

[RATTER15]

No, stupid nonsense!!

[youngmafbog]

The usual nonsense.

Personally I am surprised ther eis a market for it. Where does the 'white is beautiful' come from anyway, certainly not the Essex tanning belt !

[youngmafbog]

And I am just back from Majorca and I tan very easily so I guess it is round the back for me then !!

[Khandro]

When I was last in India, I saw a section in The Bombay Times dedicated to finding partners, and it chiefly consisted of parents trying to find suitable grooms for their daughters, always high on the description was how light their skin was, I remember 'wheaten' was a popular attribute.
If that's how they see themselves, it's not really up to us to make judgements is it.

[naomi24]

No. If people want to buy it, it's their choice.

[237SJ]

Of course not. You can`t buy any moisurisers/cleansers etc in the Far East that don`t have whitening agents in them and it`s probably no coincidence that there is a picture of an Oriental person on the box - I expect that is the market they are aiming for.

[Svejk]

yeah, but what's your agenda, aog. ;)

[Orderlimit]

Was hoping this sort of rediculous nonsense was starting to fade out.